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Legislative Branch

Link to information on the House of Representatives, the Senate, Cogressional Directories, Biographical Directories of US Congress dating back to 1774 to the present, Election Statistics, and more. http://thomas.loc.gov/home/legbranch/legbranch.html

Congressional Budget Office
See your tax dollars at use. The mission of the CBO is to provide Congress with nonpartisan analyses needed for budgetary decisions.
http://www.cbo.gov/

C-SPAN.org
Find your local congressional representatives and see just how they are voting at C-SPAN's Legislative Action Center. If you don't approve of Senator Voinovich's last vote, you can go to congress.org, send him an email, and let him know.
http://congress.nw.dc.us/c-span/

Executive Branch

The White House
This is the official home of the first family and the executive branch of the United States.
http://www.whitehouse.gov

Judicial Branch

U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
This site is sponsored by Cornell University and contains information on almost all Supreme Court Decisions handed down from 1990, as well as, 600 of the most important historical decisions. http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/

Federal Judiciary Home Page
Deals with all issues involving the federal courts.
http://www.uscourts.gov/

General Government

Virtual Tour of the U.S. Government
On this site you can take virtual tours of all three branches of the U.S. Government, find links to current government hot topics, read historical documents and find out about all America's political parties. http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/us-gov.html

The National Constitution Center
The NCC was established to increase awareness and understanding of the US Constitution, the Constitution's history, and the Constitution's relevance to our daily lives so that all of us -- "We the People" -- will better understand and exercise our rights and our responsibilities. It contains lesson plans and activities for teachers who wish to use the site.
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/

Search the Library of Congress
Do you absolutely positively have to find a book? If you can't find it here, you probably can't find it.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/harvest/query-lc.html

National Archives & Records Administration
". . . To ensure ready access to essential evidence . . .that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of federal officials, and the national experience . . ." Offers a large number of documents that can legally be reproduced and used in the classroom or with the debate team.
http://www.nara.gov/

FedStats.gov
Federal statistics of all types produced by more than 70 agencies. View data by agency, program, or region. How many people live in the U.S.A? Go to the Census Bureau and find out.
http://www.fedstats.gov/

FedWorld.gov
A search engine for locating resources relating to any federal agency.
http://www.fedworld.gov/