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Reference Sources Congress/Political Parties
State/Local Web Sites Media
Political Blogs  

Reference Sources

http://answers.usa.gov
FAQs from government web sites
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Thomas: Legislative information on the Internet from the Library of Congress.
www.fec.gov
Federal Election Commission
www.un.org
United Nations
  www.justfacts.com
Just Facts
https://usafacts.org/
USA Facts
www.firstamendmentcenter.org/
First Amendment issues
www.opensecrets.org/
Campaign financing records
http://fedstats.sites.usa.gov
Statistics from 70 agencies
  http://www.supremecourt.gov/
Supreme Court
http://www.archives.gov/
National archives
www.data.gov/
Government data
  www.politifact.com/
Politifact
www.maplight.org/
Map: Money and Politics
www.politicalindex.com
National Political Index.  Links to local, state and federal level sites. 
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/
Daily State Department briefings
www.moveon.org/
Political action site
www.fedspending.org/
Federal spending analysis site
http://cryptome.org/
Web site devoted to government spying activities
www.etown.edu/vl/
Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
http://www.budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/
Budget model
www.publicagenda.org/
Opinion surveys and policy analysis
 www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/ooqhome.htm
Occupational Outlook Quarterly.  Jobs data
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml
US Census Fact Finder
http://www.foia.gov/
Freedom of information act
www.citytowninfo.com/
Information on 20,000 city and towns
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
The White House
www.regulations.gov/
Comment site for Federal regulations
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/
Congressional voting records
www.govtrack.us/
Tracks Federal Legislation
http://factcheck.org/
Political fact checking
www.pollster.com/
Campaign polls
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/
Political fact-checker
http://unfluence.primate.net/index.html
Mapping political contributions

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Congress/Political Parties

www.senate.gov
Senate
www.dems.gov/
Democratic caucus
www.congress.org
Congressional directory.  Reps by zip code.
http://democrats.senate.gov/
Senate Democrats
www.democrats.org
Democratic National Committee
www.gop.gov
GOP site
www.house.gov
House of Representatives
www.rnc.org
Republican National Committee
http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
Congressional bios
http://republican.senate.gov/
Senate Republicans

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Media

www.cq.com
Congressional Quarterly
www.rollcall.com
Roll Call.  Current news from Congress.
http://politicalwire.com/
Political Wire
www.govexec.com
Government Executive
www.federaltimes.com
Federal Times
www.c-span.org
C-Span networks.  House/Senate schedules, news
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/
New York Times, "The Caucus"
www.fedsmith.com/
Fed Smith for Federal Govt News.
www.governing.com/
Governing.com.  State and local news
www.theatlantic.com/
The Atlantic Magazine
www.nationalreview.com
National Review
www.opinionjournal.com
Editorial page - Journal
www.project-syndicate.org/
Newspaper commentary from around the world
www.politico.com
Politico
http://politics.slashdot.org/
Politics - Slashdot
http://nationaljournal.com/
National Journal publications
 
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/
ABC News politics
  http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/congress/index.html
New York Times Congress
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics
Washington Post politics
 

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State/Local Web Sites

http://OfficialCitySites.org
Links to Official city and county sites worldwide
http://usmayors.org/
US Conference of Mayors
http://www.infoplease.com/states.html
Facts about the 50 states
www.ncsl.org
National conference of state legislatures.
  www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
Index to state and local government web sites
http://www.theus50.com/
Facts about the 50 States
www.bls.gov/eag/
Economic statistics by state
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/
Encyclopedia of Georgia
  www.followthemoney.org/
Money in state politics

 

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