The following list suggests the best sites to find government information available online for federal, state, international, and foreign levels of government.

Sections

1. Federal Government: General Information
2. Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information
3. State Information
4. International and Foreign Information
5. Statistical Resources
6. Additional Resources

Federal Government: General Information

• Documents Center (one-stop shopping from the University of Michigan)

• Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information (ALA GODORT FDTF)

• U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory (locate all federal agencies via LSU)

• US House of Representatives

• US Senate Home Page

• White House Home Page

• The Cabinet
• U.S. Department of Commerce
• U.S. Department of Defense
• U.S. Department of Energy
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• U.S. Department of Labor
• U.S. Department of the Treasury 
• U.S. Department of Transportation

Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information

• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
• Congress.Org (searchable member directories and current awareness)
• Federal Register
• Finding Government Documents (published by Wayne State University)

• GPO Access (search and retrieve congressional information from the US Government Printing Office)

• Legislative Branch (guide to the U.S. Legislative Branch)

• Library of Congress and American Memory (American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.)

• Thomas (search & retrieve legislation from the 103^rd to current congresses)

• Law (Government Information Connection, Univ. of North Texas)

• United States Copyright Office

• United States Patent & Trademark Office

• United States Code

• Supreme Court Information

• The Federal Judicial Center

• Independent Agencies

1. Central Intelligence Agency

2. Environmental Protection Agency
3. Federal Bureau of Investigation
4. Federal Citizen Information Center
5. NASA Homepage
6. National Endowment for the Arts Homepage
7. National Endowment for the Humanities
8. The National Science Foundation

State Information

• State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information (Cornell University)

• State Government Collections -- try one of the following:

1. American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO!)

2. Virtual Law Library From the "Browse by Information Type" menu, select "State Government Servers"

3. FindLaw

4. Piper Resources

• State Legislative Database (GoverNet Affairs)

• StateList (The Electronic Source for State Publication Lists from UIUC)

• NASIRE StateSearch

• Michigan Resources

1. Michigan's Executive Branch

2. Secretary of State

3. Michigan State Government

4. Governor John Engler

5. Michigan Legislature

6. Michigan House of Representatives

7. Michigan State Senate

8. Michigan In Brief

9. Law Library

10. Public and Local Acts of Michigan (1996)

11. Michigan Supreme Court

12. A Citizen's Guide to State Government (pdf)

13. The Judicial Branch of Government in Michigan

International and Foreign Information

• Country Studies (Library of Congress)

• Documents Center (University of Michigan)

• Foreign Governments (links to individual foreign government pages, Northwestern Univ.)

• Foreign National Governments, International Governmental Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations (ALA GODORT International Documents Task Force)

• International Governmental Organizations (Northwestern University)

• US State Department Home Page

• United Nations

Statistical Resources

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Business & Economics Numeric Data (Mansfield Univ.)
• Fedstats (Search engine for government statistics and data)
• InfoNation (United Nations)
• Statistical Information (Government Information Connection, Univ. of North Texas)
• US Census Bureau

Additional Resources

• "Agency Approach" To Locating Government Information on the Internet (tutorial)

• Depository CD-ROM Guides (links to guides on government CDs via the University of Michigan)

• GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (search for government documents)

• Govbot, FirstGov, and Google Uncle Sam (Search engines for government information; see also GPO's Finding Aids)

• Meta-Subject Access to Government Information (Idaho State University)

• Migrating Government Publications (full-text docs via the University of Memphis, or try the collection of links and library-scanned publications at the University of Buffalo)

• Resources of Use to Government Documents Librarians (ALA GODORT)

• Sales Product Catalog via GPO (also see the commercial version from Claitor's)