FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
Executive Branch
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- Federal Advisory
Committees (GSA)
- Searchable list of approximately 1000 advisory committees
- Laws, regulations, and executive orders governing advisory
committees
- Department
of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan (Carlos
Diaz)
- List of government agencies to be transferred or abolished in the new
Department of Homeland Security
- Compilation by Carlos Diaz and posted via GOVDOC-L listserv, December
2002
- Federal
Information Centers (GSA)
- Describes telephone service for locating federal government
information
- List of toll-free FIC phone numbers
- Answers to most commonly-asked questions about federal services
- Federal
Telephone Directories (GSA)
- Links to web versions of executive, legislative, and independent
agency telephone directories
- Federal Yellow
Book
- Most current directory of Executive Branch available
- Brief biographies of government officials and great detail on
executive staff
- Docs. Ref. JK 6 .F2931)
- Presidential
Nominees to Senate (Senate)
- List of Presidential nominations for cabinet posts since 1977 and
final disposition
- List of all rejected cabinet nominations since 1834
- All nominations for the Supreme Court since 1789 and their final
disposition
- Regional Offices
- United
States
Government Manual
- Browse the current edition by cabinet agency
- Alternative: use the search term: regional ADJ office?
- Federal Regional Yellow
Book (UMich Only)
- More detailed listings than the Government Manual
- Choose Federal Regional from the upperlefthand side of the screen and then do a
keyword search
- Senate
Nominations Report
- Lists civilian and non-civilian appointments submitted by the
President to the Senate for confirmation
- Arranged by stage in the process: submitted, on calendar, confirmed,
withdrawn, etc.
- Provides nominee name and position
- United
States Government Manual, 1995/96+ (National Archives)
- Directory of agencies and officials, primarily in the Executive Branch
- Describes agency activity and cites legislative authority
- Arranged by Cabinet section or agency with a "Search" option at the
top of the page
- Also browsable beginning with 1997/98 edition
- PDF or text format
- Use the Senate
Nominations Report or the Federal
Yellow Book to update this directory
- United
States Government Manual (UMich Only)
- Hein Online provides the browsable text of each Government Manual
since 1935
- Campus access sponsored by the UMich Law Library
- United States Government
Manuals, 1957/58-1985/86 (University of
Michigan)
- Not all executive branch agencies publish annual reports; some
agencies publish multiple reports on multiple subjects
- The Abridgement (J 81 .83) includes
summaries of executive department annual reports, 1858-1920
- Search MIRLYN
under the name of the agency (e.g. united states postal service); then
browse for the title annual
report or report
- Annual reports, 1789-1969, often appear in the Congressional Serial
Set; do an ADVANCED SEARCH in Congressional
Universe (UMich only); search for the agency name and annual
report
in the Serial Set full text
- Historical Executive
Branch Officers
- Executive branch officials since George Washington are listed by President
- Most names have links to online biographies
- State
Representation in Presidential and Cabinet Offices
- Covers 1789-1880
- Access Vincent Cooke's Hon. James G. Blaine and then
search within the book for "Appendix F"
- State
Department Biographic Register
- Biographies of State Department diplomats, published annually
1874-1974
- Most volumes available online through the Hathi Trust
- United States Executive Branch (Ref. Room E 176
.U5751)
- One-half to one-page biographies of presidents, vice presidents, and
cabinet heads from the Continental Congress through 2002
- Numerous appendices include lists of cabinet heads by Presidential
administration, list of cabinet heads by department, marital
information, branch of military service, and birthplace
- Who's
Who in American Politics (UMich Only)
- Separate database accessed through the Marquis Who's Who
Online database
- Includes presidents and vice presidents, current and former living
cabinet members, legislators, judges, governors
- Current ambassadors, mayors and council members of large cities,
political party chairs
- Entries for former officials often include their current
addresses
- Who's Who in the Federal
Government (U.Memphis)
- Links to biographies of the cabinet and heads of independent agencies
- Includes links to Congressional committee chairs
- FirstGov
- Official search engine of the federal government
- Searches also possible for state and international agencies
- Google's Uncle Sam
- Keyword searching for federal and state documents
- Ranks results by the number of external links to them
- Hot Bot
- Advanced Searching (access from lefthand side of screen)
permits limitation to the .gov and .mil
domains
- FirstGov
- Official government gateway
- Lists web sites by type of user (citizen, business, governments)
- Also indexes all federal web site except for pdf files
- Government
Printing Office Browse Topics (Oklahoma State University)
- Index to federal government publications, data bases and web sites
- Sponsored by individual depository libraries with GPO assistance
- InfoMine
(U.Calif-Riverside)
- Extensive alphabetic index to federal, international, and California
government information
- Analyzes individual publications and web sites of government agencies
- Optional keyword approach
- Meta-Subject Index
to Government Information (Idaho State University)
- Subject index to web sites maintained by libraries or the government
- Over 1300 entries
- Sources include government and non-government materials
- Subject
Index to Federal
Government Web Sites (NTIS/FEDWORLD)
- Extensive, annotated subject index to federal government web sites
- Subject
Index to Federal Government Web Sites (University of
Colorado)
- Annotated index to both agencies and publications of the agencies
- Includes subjects such as endangered species, parks, and
demographics
- U.S. State
and
Local Government Gateway
- Annotated subject list of federal web sites for state and local
government administration
- Subjects include administration and finance, commerce,
disasters, education, environment, families, health, housing,
public safety, transportation, and workforce development
- Each section includes news, best practices, laws, and reference
tools
- See also Web Searching Tutorials
- Agency
Index (WASHLAW)
- Grid of cabinet departments and independent agencies
- Columns provide links to the agency's web site, on-line publications,
forms, organization charts, and opinions as applicable
- Federal Agency Web Sites (LSU)
- Cleancut alphabetical listing of federal agency web sites
- Federal
Government Agencies Database (Duke University)
- Comprehensive guide to federal government agencies
- Searchable by keyword; browsable by name, acronym and government
hierarchy
- Provides direct links to the agency's web site and a description based
on the U.S. Government Manual
- Federal Web Locator
- Links to federal agencies and independent boards by name of agency
- FirstGov
- Indexes over 20,000 federal government websites, including Executive
Branch agencies, Members of Congress, individual reports, and bills
- Does not index pdf reports
- Lists government agency web sites
- The broad subject approach (similar to Yahoo) picks up a unique list
of topics (e.g. cruise ship sanitation scores, passports, road closures,
consumer complaints, taxes, museums
- Government by
Sterby
- Comprehensive links to all branches of the federal government
- Especially good for independent and quasi-governmental agencies
- World
Wide Web Sites Reported by 42 Federal Organizations (GAO)
- Lists over 400 web sites maintained by 42 federal government agencies
- GAO Report "GGD-97-086S"
- See also Web Searching Tutorials
- Consumer
Information Catalog
- Catalog of free and low-cost publications
- The full text of numerous pamphlets are available on the Internet
- Samples include making a will, value of walking, real estate
property sales, buying a house
- Firstgov
- Separate sections from main page list citizen, business, and state and local
government information
- Oriented toward e-government with easily accessible information on birth and
marriage records, taxes, travel, adopting a wild horse, applying for grants
- Recalls.Gov
- List of currently active federal government recalls from several
agencies
- Includes consumer products, vehicles, boats, medicines, cosmetics,
food and pesticides
- Related Documents Center Web Pages
- Code of Federal
Regulations
- DOD
Directives
- Defense Department Directives arranged by number
- SGML, ASCII, and PDF formats
- Federal
Administrative Decisions and Other Actions (UVa)
- Extensive list of administrative law sources on the web, outside
the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations
- Arranged by agency
- Includes directions, opinions, determinations
- Federal Register
- Federal
Register via Congressional Universe (UMich only)
- Notices of new regulations, proposed regulations, and notices of grants and agency hearings
- Full text of Federal Register since 1980
- Searchable by keyword, agency, date, and type of publication
- Federal Register via GPO Access
- New regulations, proposed regulations, and notices of grants and agency hearings
- Keyword searching and browsable since 1994
- Best public source of Federal Register
- Law Library
Materials Consortium (UMich Only)
- Full text of historical administrative decisions and federal laws
- Searchable as a group or within the Executive, Legislative or Judicial
groups
- As of November 2003, has the text of many administrative laws of
executive branch agencies
- Will be eventually expanded to include all microfiche materials listed
in the LLMC
Catalog
- Office
of Management and Budget
- Unified
Agenda
- Detailed information on executive agency regulatory plans for the
next six months
- Sample search: "prescription drugs"
- Data includes agency's regulatory priority, the extent of an
unfunded mandate, and number of government levels involved
- Legal authority for the regulation, summary, planned comment period
- Government
Podcasts (Free Government Information)
- Links to federal and state government agencies with podcasts
- These audio feeds can be heard on an IPod or a PC
- Federal
Employees Locations and Salaries (Gannett)
- Searchable directory of federal government employees by name and
agency OR list of employees by state/county and/or agency
- Provides 2006 salary
- Primarily civil service employees in the Executive Branch or
courts
Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
Ankur Mehta, Documents Assistant, June 2002
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