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Government Resources
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The most notable documents on the House gopher are the Congressional Record and House bills, both searchable by keywords, and the US Code by Title. If you just need to retrieve bills from the House of Representatives, the House gopher is the easiest source.
The Code of Federal Regulations (as far as we know the only complete CFR available on the net for free) and US Code are available through the House's homepage on the World Wide Web. These databases actually are available from a different URL than the House's homepage (with a search engine from Personal Library Software.) The homepage also links to the House Gopher for the Congressional Record.
SENATE WEB SITE
HOW TO FIND COURT DECISIONS
UNITED
STATES FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURT DECISIONS
HOW TO FIND FEDERAL LEGISLATION AND OTHER INFORMATION
Thomas provides access to Congressional bills and the Congressional Record. Library of Congress officials say THOMAS will soon have many other documents, but the product line hasn't grown as fast as expected.
The Library of Congress's Marvel systems is the most comprehensive source of government information accessible by gopher. It is more of a directory that points you toward other gopher servers, rather than a repository for government information. Information and pointers to other sites are listed by branch of government and then by agency in each branch.
GOVERNMENT
PRINTING OFFICE ACCESS PROGRAM
GPO Access contains: Congressional Bills, Federal Register, Congressional Record, and GAO Reports
GPO Access is the only free site for the FEDERAL REGISTER, and it provides keyword searching of the US CODE. Plus, you can do a key word search on several publications at the same time, such as searching bills, the Congressional Record and the US Code at the same time for the same key words.
FEDWORLD
A comprehensive guide to government databases.
DESCRIPTION
OF DATABASES
- Code
of Federal Regulations (House WWW): The Code of Federal
Regulations is the official compilation of the Federal regulations.
The CFR database is not as current as the printed version,
but soon they expect to catch up.
- Congressional
Record (GPO Access, Thomas, House Gopher): The Congressional
Record database is the public proceedings of both the House
and Senate. It contains the floor debates, as well as the
roll call votes among other things.
- Federal
Register (GPO Access) The Federal Register is the official
forum for making available to the public regulations and
legal notices issued by Federal agencies, some Presidential
Documents, and many other important items.
- Legislation
(GPO Access, House Gopher (House side only), Thomas): Bills
introduced by members of Congress.
- US Code (GPO Access, House WWW, House Gopher (by title)) :The United States Code contains the general and permanent laws of the United States. The GPO's US Code database is current as of January, 1994; however, any section that has been affected by laws passed during the 2nd Session of the 103rd Congress (1994) includes a note identifying the public law that affected that section. Some titles available from the House gopher are current as of January 1995. GPO allows searching of the entire Code,while the House gopher requires the user to retrieve the code by section.
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