Newly Added Resources http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/index.html en-us graceyor@umich.edu http://fdsys.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/advanced/advsearchpage.action Full text of selected Congressional hearings beginning with the 104th Congress, 1993. Searchable by keywords in the full text, metadata, date, committee and subcommittee, nominee, SUDOCS class number. Search results may be narrowed by data, committee, organization, committee member, or location. Full text available in pdf. Hearings also browsable by committee. Wed 18 March 2009 http://www.projectscentral.com/ Database of projections collected by individual states. Choose state and/or occupation; sort title by numeric change, percent change, etc. Links to projection sites of the 50 states. Fri 13 March 2009 http://www.americanreligionsurvey-aris.org/ Religious affiliation of American populace by race, age, sex, education, and geography. Some data on beliefs and behavior. The 2008 survey indicates the number of non-believers has risen and Catholics have moved from the Northeast to Southwest. Study conducted by Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Tues 10 March 2009 http://www.law.umich.edu/library/students/research/Documents/afghanistan.pdf Guide to printed sources of historical and current Afghan constitutions, subject compilations, and comprehensive legal sources. Includes translations to various languages. Published by the University of Michigan Law Library. Mon 19 Jan 2009 http://visaforu.com/ Visa information for each country in the world provides details of various types of visas (travel, temporary worker, business, immigrant, etc.), visa application forms and embassies of the the country around the world Thurs 4 Dec 2008 http://editthis.info/r_p_r_portal/Research_Resources Wiki of research sources for religion as it relates to politics. Includes brief annotations of news sources, research centers, University programs, jobs, and conferences. Created by Jennifer Epley of the University of Michigan. Wed 3 Dec 2008 http://directory.presidentialtransition.gov/ Links to leadership positions to be filled (most current versions of the plum and prune books), detailed guidance on records and ethics for nominees and appointees, transition laws and inaugural information Mon 10 Nov 2008 http://change.gov Daily news on the Presidential transition beginning with Senator Obama's speech on November 4, 2008. Biographies of the president, vice president and their spouses. High level posts to be filled, job applications, and an opportunity to "share your story." Mon 10 Nov 2008 http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS89312 Salaries of the chief executive officers trading on the stock exchange. Includes salaries, bonuses, stock options and other benefits. Searchable by industry of individual company. Wed 15 Oct 2008 http://unyearbook.un.org/ Very detailed summary of debates and actions taken by the United Nations and its main bodies published annually since 1946. Articles often include the text of resolutions and references to individual documents. Extremely valuable for indexing. Individual volumes are browsable and searchable with all volumes cross searchable using Boolean logic and proximity indicators. Thurs 9 Oct 2008 http://baic.house.gov/ Biographies of 123 African Americans serving in Congress, 1870-2007 as senators and representatives. Includes artifacts and historical data, including committee assignments, leadership positions, and states represented. Tues 7 Oct 2008 http://financialservices.house.gov/essa/ayo08c04_xml.pdf Draft proposal of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 as announced on September 28, 2008. Sun 28 Sept 2008 http://usaspending.gov/ Detailed information on federal government grants and contracts awarded since FY 2004. Use tabs for separate account of contracts, subcontracts, assistance and loans. Search by top recipients, names congressional districts, government agency and competition or product type. Numerous graphs and charts. Sun 28 Sept 2008 http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2008/0826_egovernment_west/0826_egovernment_west.pdf Statistics and descriptions of federal and state government web sites. Includes online services (87% of web sites have), publications, security policies, user fees. Delaware was the top-rated state web cluster and the USAgov portal the top-rated federal> Thurs 4 Sept 2008 http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/natlstats.html Extensive, comprehensive links to the main statistical agencies of each country and their statistical yearbooks where available. Tues 5 Aug 2008 http://pcl.stanford.edu/campaigns/ Videos of campaign ads for the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Presidential election. Ads for the California governorship in 1994, 2002 and 2006. Tues 5 Aug 2008 http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/database/ Detailed database of maternity, minimum wage, and work time laws of countries around the world. Laws of individual countries or countries within a region can be easily compared. Fri 1 Aug 2008 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/debate08.html Extensive annotated list of fossil fuel information and alternatives, including wind, nuclear, solar, wave, and hydrogen alternatives; electric and hybrid cars. Cites government, association, automotive web links as well as journal and tink tank articles, Congressional hearings. Tues 24 June 2008 http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2008-06-03-airlines-cuts-flights-fares_N.htm Extensive article in USA Today for June 3, 2008 showing plans for airlines to cut seats and airports this fall. An interactive map by state shows which airports in that state will be cut and by percentage. Wed 4 June 2008 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/dn08/dn08gas.html Watching gas prices rise 15-cents overnight will frighten the hardiest of souls. Fight back with a little information. The University of Michigan Documents Center has just launched its Gasoline Prices web page. It is filled with statistics on pump and crude oil prices, exchange rates, and oil reserves. Did you know there are 42 gallons to a barrel of oil? It is also addresses solutions to high prices from supply and demand to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and regulating commodity exchanges. In case you are wondering, there IS no existing windfall profits tax. Tues 6 May 2008 http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20080421104349.pdf Felony waivers given for army, navy, airforce and marine recruitment in FY 2006 and 2007 by type of felony (e.g. burglary) Wed 23 April 2008 http://www.upjohninst.org/erdc/index.htm Conducts research for Dept. of Labor on labor force issues. Summarizes results of various surveys: continuous longitudinal manpower survey, persons who exhaust unemployment insurance benefits, lifelong learning, job corps. Data sets available from Upjohn upon request. Tues 15 April 2008 http://php.app.com/feds06/search.php Searchable directory of federal government employees by name and agency OR list of employees by state/county and agency. Provides 2006 salary. Coverage limited to civil service employees rather than elected officials or Presidential appointments. Wed 26 March 2008 http://pewresearch.org/pubs/729/united-states-population-projections Pew Research Center report shows that by 2050, non-Hispanic whites will be a minority (47%) and blacks will remain the same while Hispanics and Asians will grow as a percentage of U.S. population. The elderly will nearly double in size, and 19% of the nation will be immigrants. Full text of report released in pdf format on February 11, 2008. Wed 13 Feb 2008 http://www.earthplatform.com/ Environmental search engine to news reports and web sites. Subjects include nature, animals, energy, pollution, and global warming. Organizations represented include government agencies, non-profits, and business. Fri 8 Feb 2008 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/dn08/dn08laws.html#michins Cluster of bills, hearings, and legislative analyses to create a high risk pool for health insurance purposes rather than requiring Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to insure everyone. Tues 5 February 2008 http://www.cngr.gov/ Commission authorized by Congress to assess homeland readiness for outside attacks and disaster recovery. Final Report, dated January 31, 2008, concludes that the National Guard and Reserves need to be integrated into the military and serve as an operational rather than strategic organization. Also addresses fundamental reforms to reserve roles, personnel management systems, equipping and training policies, policies affecting families and employers. Fri 1 February 2008 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21660890/ Exit polls conducted by Edison as part of pooled news election coverage and presented by MSNBC. Questions of voters break presidential choices by state and then factors such as sex, race, age, education, and income of the voter. Mon, Jan 21, 2008 http://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu/gdoc/search.shtml Full text of over 7000 Congressional hearings published 1970-98 and digitized by the Rutgers-Camden School of Law. Searchable by full text. Hearings may be downloaded page-by-page or in segments. Tues, 18 Dec 2007 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/elec2008.html University of Michigan mega-index to all things electoral from presidential/voter matching services to advertising, public opinion polls, and data sets on historic U.S. elections. Weekly tracks Congressional candidates not running for re-election. Links to election data provided by the 50 states. Key documents relating to policy issues. For public and academic use. Tues 4 Dec 2007 http://www.sni.gov/press_releases/20071203_release.pdf Report suggests that Iran halted its nuclear weapon program in 2003 as the result of international pressure. Believes Iran could still continue its weapons program in the future but it would not be ready before 2015. Released December 3, 2007. Tues 4 Dec 2007 http://elmer.lib.tufts.edu:8080/aas_portal/index.xq Original research by Philip Lampi of the American Antiquarian Society with digitization by Tufts University. Provides state, county and city election results for federal, state, and local officials, 1787-1825. You can search by combinations of states, candidates, office titles, and dates. Fri 9 Nov 2007 http://armed-services.senate.gov/statemnt/2007/September/Jones%2009-06-07.pdf Known as the Jones report and presented to Congress in September 2007. Suggests there are steady improvements in the Iraqi military but the Iraqi police forces remain poor. Mon 10 Sept 2007 http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d071195.pdf General Accountability Office Report 07-1195, released September 4, 2007. The Iraqi government has met three of the 18 benchmarks established by the U.S.: establishing security stations and committees around them to support Baghdad as well as establishing minority party rights. It has not met de-Baathification, oil revenue sharing, provincial election, and amnesty goals. Wed 5 September 2007 https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/Executive%20Summary_OIG%20Report.pdf Report found that neither the U.S. government nor CIA Director George Tenet had a comprehensive strategy for combatting Al-Qaeda prior to 9/11. Tenet did not use all of his authority against counterterrorism. However, he was successful in reorganizing the CIA and was fully engaged in counterterrorism efforts. Report written in June 2005 and declassified in August 2007. 22 Aug 2007 http://www.odni.gov/press_releases/20070717_release.pdf Extract of July 2007 report suggests Al-Qaida is regrouping for another major attack on the United States. Chemical, biological or nuclear weapons could be used. Hezbollah could become involved if Iran perceives the U.S. is a threat. Part of the National Intelligence Estimate series. Thu 19 July 2007 http://www.loc.gov/law/public/saddam/ Very clear description of historical context, court procedures, indictment, and appellate decision by the Law Library of Congress. Includes related treaties, additional readings and web sites. 10 July 2007 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/debate07.html Rich resource on combatting infectious diseases, poverty, human rights violations, and corruption in Africa. Includes federal government budgetary commitments to foreign aid as well as health issues in the United States. The majority of annotations link to public access material from international agencies and federal government. Mon 11 June 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/ref/us/20070524_REFINERY_GRAPHIC.html Graph showing cost of gasoline at the pump from 1918 to May 2007 in 2007 dollars. Links data to the Arab oil embargo, 9/11 and Iraq War. Published by the New York Times on May 24, 2007. Thurs 24 May 2007 http://socialexplorer.com/pub/maps/home.aspx Data base of Census tracts for every ten years since 1940 with population variables expressed as a percentage. Choose year and then variable. Zooming into an area reveals more detail, include tract number and street name. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and New York Times. Mon 14 May 2007 http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/06pdf/05-380.pdf Supreme Court ruling of April 18, 2007 that the federal ban on partial birth abortion is constitutional. Thu 19 April 2007 http://www.michigan.gov/cepi Data includes district and school building data on student headcounts, free lunch eligibility, and dropout rates. School staffing surveys, school safety and expulsion data. Financial summaries include Bulletin 1011 (Analysis of Public School Revenues and Expenditures) and Bulletin 1014 (Michigan Public Schools Ranked by Select Financial Information). Most files in dbf format. Fri 6 April 2007 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/pdf/hiscenmi.pdf PDF pages extracted from Census Bureau publications providing population totals, 1800-2000. Data separated into two files, State/County and Minor Civil Division, and then arranged by date from earliest to most current. Original sources cited in each section Tues 27 March 2007 http://www.disc.wisc.edu/newcrossroads/index.asp Over 825 extensively annotated links to databases, data sets, data archives and statistical reports on the web. Arranged by subject and searchable by keyword. Covers population, elections, labor, philantrophy, migration, public opinion, health, agriculture. Especially good at identifying foreign data sets and less-known institutional products. Fri 23 March 2007 http://www.defenselink.mil/news/transcript_ISN10024.pdf Exorcised transcript of meeting between military tribunal and suspected mastermind of 9/11 on March 10, 2007. Describes U.S. terrorism charges against him. Muhammed claims responsibility for numerous Al-Qaeda actions or plans, including 9/11 and assassination attempts. Makes corrections for the record. Fri 16 March 2007 http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/s0703b/final.pdf FBI used the Patriot Act provisions to obtain private information on 56,000 people per year, half U.S. citizens. The activity was 22% underreported and sometimes abused. Report released on March 9, 2007 Fri 9 March 2008 http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/ Complete list of floor roll call votes in the House and Senate since the 102nd Congress, 1991. Sections for each Congress list House and Senate votes and votes by bill number. Links from the main listing for each Congress provide analyses of individual roll call outcomes by party, state, region, gender, boomer status and astrological sign. Overall for each Congress there are analyses of those votes with the widest and narrowest margins, late night votes, and members who missed the most votes. There is also a full list of members for each Congress with brief biographies, a list of their individual roll call votes and how they compared with GOP and Democratic opinion. Spanning all Congresses is an analysis of roll call votes for building designations, impeachments, nominations, speaker elections, treaties, and vice-presidential tiebreakers. Tues, 6 March 2007 http://www.citytowninfo.com/ Detailed entries for 20,000 U.S. cities provide everything from area codes, time zones, latitude and longitude to ancestry of the population. Compares population, income, housing and crime to the state. Includes political contributions, lists of high schools, travel highlights, mortgage rates. Separate section for many of the cities with their most popular professions and corresponding annual salary ranges. Thu 1 March 2007 http://www.michigan.gov/documents/gov/Emergency_Financial_Advisory_Panel_Report_185781_7.pdf Michigan financial crisis due to a combination of a weak economy (loss of manufacturing jobs), tax cuts, spending pressures, and inattention to government reform. State must invest in education and reform its tax structure, including possible tax increases. Bipartisan panel headed by former governors James Blanchard and William Milliken submitted report on February 2, 2007. Wed 7 Feb 2007 http://www.michigan.gov/documents/gov/2007_SOS_186092_7.pdf State of the State address delivered by Governor Jennifer Granholm on February 6, 2007. Calls for investing in education and workers while restructuring revenue. Wed 7 Feb 2007 http://stats.bls.gov/opub/uscs/home.htm Detailed analysis by the BLS of consumer expenditures by type as compared to household characteristics and income, 1901-2003. One chapter for each decade includes charts and graphs as well as population changes. Concludes that income has risen faster than prices. Tues 6 Feb 2007 http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy08/browse.html Full text of budget and appendices in pdf format downloadable by chapter/agency; also Historical Tables and Analytical Tables. Includes numerous spreadsheets in XLS format, among them Historical Tables and a state-by-state analysis Mon 5 Feb 2007 http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/02/02/nie.3.pdf Public portion of a classified document released on February 2, 2007. Sees the Sunni-Shia crisis only worsening in the next 18 months; includes Shia-Shia violence, al-Quaida, and crime. Future outcomes include a partition of Iraq, a Shia strong man, or anarachy. Rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops to worsen situation since Iraqis will be unable to handle it for next 18 months. Fri 2 Feb 2007 http://www.ipcc.ch/ Established by the World Meteorological Organization and UNEP, this working group assesses the physical science behind climate change, likely impacts, and recommended policy initiatives. Climate Change 2007: Summary of Policy Makers, released on February 2, blames continued global warming on human causes and expects temperatures to rise 2-11 degrees Fahrenheit in next 100 years. A fuller report to be issued in May 2007. Fri 2 Feb 2007 http://wits.nctc.gov/ Search terrorist incidents throughout the world since January 1, 2004 by keyword, region, and/or date. Brief description includes fatalities, injuries, and hostages. Click on incident link for known perpetrators Interactive map also available. Created and maintained by the National Counterterrorism Center. Thu 25 Jan 2007 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070110-3.html Outline of President Bush's strategy released January 10, 2007. Points include: let the Iraqis lead; help Iraqis protect the population; isolate extremists; create space for political progress; diversify political and economic efforts; and situate the strategy in a regional approach, and a surge of 21,500 troops. Tues 16 Jan 2007 http://www.lib.umich.edu/hsl/guides/avianflu.html Extensive annotated bibliography covering description and research on the flu. Disaster planning, travel information, Michigan local planning. Created by the University of Michigan Health Sciences Libraries. Mon 8 Jan 2007 http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/e_one_section_no_teasers/ledger_slides.htm Digitized record of compensation and mileage reimbursements paid to Senators, 1790-1881 Thu, 4 Jan 2007 http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/grants-scorecard-report-010207.pdf Assesses compatibility of communications systems between jurisdictions in 75 metropolitan areas. Overall summary followed by place-by-place assessments of governance and operating procedures. Recommendations for improvement. Released by the Department of Homeland Security in January 2007. Wed 3 Jan 2007 http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/creports/katrinanation.html Joint report by the Senate Committees on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Senate Report 109-322), released December 2006. Despite adequate warnings about a catastrophic hurricane,there was a failure of leadership on the local, state and national level to deal with Katrina. Seven recommendations include replacing FEMA with a heartier organization. Fri 22 December 2006 http://www.defenselink.mil/home/features/Iraq_Reports/Index.html Defense Department quarterly report to Congress describes political, economic and security developments in Iraq. Includes statistics, particularly on the military and Iraqi security forces; recommends changes in policy. Archived since July 2006. The November 2006 report (http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/9010Quarterly-Report-20061216.pdf) was released the day Robert Gates was sworn in as Secretary of Defense. Tues 19 Dec 2006 http://files.homeoffice.gov.uk/OperationPagetReport.pdf Official British report investigating a conspiracy behind the death of Princess Diana. Finds her death was caused by Henri Paul, who was speeding while drunk, and the fact that no one was wearing seatbelts. Report released on December 14, 2006 by Lord John Stevens, former head of the London Metropolitan Police (New Scotland Yard). Thu 14 Dec 2006 http://www.usip.org/isg/iraq_study_group_report/report/1206/iraq_study_group_report.pdf Bi-partisan Baker-Hamilton Commission report on Iraq War terms the situation as grave and deteriorating. Recommends U.S. withdraw from combat role by early 2008, focus on training Iraqis, and engage in diplomacy with Iran and Syria. Additional copies: http://www.bakerinstitute.org/Pubs/iraqstudygroup_findings.pdf, http://www.csis.org/iraqstudygroup, and http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/pdf/iraq_study_group_report.pdf. Wed 6 Dec 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/world/middleeast/03mtext.html Classified memo written by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to President Bush on November 6, 2006, two days before his resignation was announced. Includes reduction of bases, beefing up Iraqi security, suspending reconstruction funds from terrorist hotbeds, creating an employment program for youths. Printed by New York Times, December 3, 2006 (Section 1, p. 28, Column 1). Mon 4 Dec 2006 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/hiscenpub.html A grid which lists electronic files and their geographic coverage, 1790-2000, with a special focus on Michigan places. Includes the National Historical Geographic Information System (extraction), Census Bureau pdfs, Historical Census Browser (extraction), Public Use Microdata Samples (manipulation), and American Factfinder (extraction). Adds paper copy (usually more geographic coverage), Census Bureau and Geolytics CDs Fri 27 Oct 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/2006ELECTIONGUIDE.html?currentData Separate maps show Senate, House, and Gubernatorial races. Maps are color coded to indicate safe Democrat or Republican, leaning Democrat or Republican, and toss up. Click on state or district to bring up the candidates and a pre-election analysis. Also permits user to create various scenarios Mon 23 Oct 2006 http://www.michlmi.org/LMI/warn/warnpage.htm Monthly list of individual businesses laying off workers in Michigan, location and number of workers involved. Includes plant closings.Time series begins in 2000. Issued by the Michigan Dept of Labor and Economic Growth, Labor Market Information division. Fri 13 Oct 2006 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/elec2006.html#preshis Table with specific links to state historical election results and dates of full coverage. Feature added to Elections 2006 web site. Mon 9 Oct 2006 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/congress/2006bop.xls Separate worksheets for the Senate, House, and Governors races on November 7, 2006. Each worksheet lists all incumbents from all states, colored for party, with separate columns for the party, last name, and first name. Three similar columns for the major candidates in each race. A visual aid for election night which can be sorted or filtered to determine specific changes in the balance of power. Mon 9 Oct 2006 http://www.schoolsafety.us/School-Associated-Violent-Deaths-p-6.html">School-Associated List of individual school-associated murders since September 1992. Data includes date, name of school, name of victim, how victim killed, reason for incident, location of murder, and description of incident. Cumulative data on reasons for death, victims' gender, location, and state. Updated to include Emily Keyes on September 27, 2006 Fri 29 Sept 2006 http://www.statemaster.com/index.php Rank states from best to worst using a series of pull-down menus. Broad categories include crime, economics, education, health, housing, immigration, labor, and demographics. Some of the more "unusual data" includes the number of illegal immigrants, electrocutions v. lethal injections, students scoring above average on 4th grad math, alligator attacks and flu shots, and state birds. Data can be illustrated with a bar graph, pie chart, or map (e.g. map of states with the largest number of Albanian refugees Thu 28 September 2006 http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/Declassified_NIE_Key_Judgments.pdf Released by President Bush on September 26, 2006 after parts leaked to the press. Suggests Iraq has become a recruiting ground for terrorists and they have adapted their efforts. Lists causes for the increased violence. Jihadists will lose some recruits if fail in Iraq Tues 26 Sept 2006 http://www.legistorm.com/ Salaries of Congressional staff members, including interns. Searchable by name, Member of Congress, and committee. Mon 25 Sept 2006 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/elec2006.html Annotated links to the candidates, lobby group ratings, forecasting, public opinion polls, voter registration, and key issues in the 2006 campaign. Sat 23 September 2006 http://www.followthemoney.org/index.phtml Candidates for STATE office and their campaign contributors as well as contributors by industry or special interest in the state. Tues 19 Sept 2006 http://intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiaccuracy.pdf Report evaluates CIA prewar assessments of Iraq's WMD capability and its links to terrorism. Released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on September 8, 2006. 8 Sept 2006 http://intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiinc.pdf Use by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi National Congress. Explores role of Ahmed Chalabi and inaccurate information supplied by anti-Saddam forces. Released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on September 8, 2006. Fri 8 Sept 2006 http://qesdb.cdie.org/gbk/index.html U.S. economic and military assistance to other countries, 1946 to present. Data given in historical (current) and constant dollars. Search by country or program. Default setting is ten year cumulations with individual years for the past five. Use custom setting to select one country for individual years, 1946+. Fri, 8 Sept 2006 http://www.army.mil/references/FM2-22.3.pdf Army Field Manual2-22.3. New interrogation techniques for terrorist suspects released on September 6, 2006. The DOD Directive 2310.01E that accompanied it is classified. Thu 7 Sept 2006 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060906-3.html Summary of White House proposal to Congress to try terrorists by military commissions rather than tribunals. Resulted from Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision three months earlier. Thu, 7 Sept 2006 http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nsct/2006/index.html Four points: prevent attacks, deny WMD to rogue states, deny terrorists support from rogue states, and deny terrorists the control of any nation. Claims al-Qaeda is weakened but the threat is real. Released September 5, 2006 Tues, 5 Sept 2006 http://web.acsalaska.net/~dcornwall/NLA2005/BlueBookList.html Links to the state government manuals of the 50 states. Manuals typically include directories of the agencies, biographies of the legislators, some statistics, and election data. Most states but not all have web links. Prepared by Dan Cornwall of the Alaska State Library. Mon 7 Aug 2006 http://hsus.cambridge.org/HSUSWeb/ Over 37,000 time series of U.S. demographic and economic data, primarily 1789-1995. Age, health, education, employment, income, GNP, prices, industry, elections. A section on colonial statistics appears in Chapter E: Governance and International Relations. Most tables are national in scope. It is easiest to find data through the alphabetic index or advanced search engine. Tables may be viewed in pdf for html format. Downloads can be in csv or zipped Excel format and include documentation. Excellent notes indicate when the statistic was first taken and cite sources. This is a commercial product that updates and expands the Census Bureau's Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 Mon 17 July 2006 http://www.usip.org/library/pa.html Text of treaties concluding interstate or intrastate wars since 1989. Links to truth commissions investigating human rights violations. Wed 12 July 2006 http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Provides monetary and banking statistics, 1896-1970, and can be used in conjunction with FRED to provide economic time series for the 20th Century. Web site also provides digitized version of early 20th Century Commerce Department documents, including Business Statistics, Survey of Current Business, Economic Indicators, and Economic Reports of the President. Wed, 12 July 2006 http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05pdf/05-184.pdf President Bush does not have the authority to conduct military trials for Guantanamo detainees according to this 5-3 Supreme Court decision on June 29, 2006. Lawsuit brough by former driver to Osama bin Laden. Thu 29 June 2006 http://fermat.nap.edu/catalog/11676.html Average temperature in past few decades has been the hottest in 400 years. Scientific evidence prior to 1600 is a little less certain. Report released by the National Academy of Sciences on June 22, 2006. Thurs 22 June 2006 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/debate06.html Annotated links to commercial and free web sites with articles on various segments of the debate topic. Includes journal articles, think tanks, web sites of national service agencies, and government critiques. Wed 21 June 2006 http://www.agh-attorneys.com/3_camo_contents.htm Extensive course materials provide primary documents on political theory and American history with sections on the founding fathers, three branches of government and civil rights issues. Texts include Magna Carta, Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu, various drafts of the Constitution, excerpts from the Federalist, numerous court cases. Section on the Electoral College includes list of faithless electors, presidents who won by plurality rather than majority, and four cases where winners of the popular vote lost the election. Wed 24 May 2006 http://www.igs.berkeley.edu/library/htCAPrimaryResults2006.html Slick web page with the June 6, 2006 primary results for statewide races and ballot measures as well as some of the hot local races. Includes candidates, votes and percentages. Created by Frank Lester of the Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies. Mon 12 June 2006 http://www.president.ir/eng/ahmadinejad/cronicnews/1385/02/19/index-e.htm#b3 Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad's lengthy letter dated May 8, 2006. Challenges U.S. policy based on Christian and Islamic principles. Written just before a UN Security Council debate on Iran's nuclear weapons program. Wed 10 May 2006 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/partycon.html List of Democratic and Republican convention proceedings since 1832. Refers to paper and microfilm call numbers and URLs as available. Also includes notes for inter-library loan or the Vanderbilt Television Archive. Mond 17 April 2006 http://oxlad.qeh.ox.ac.uk/ Time series of data (1900-2000) for individual Latin American countries Covering demographics, education, labor force, foreign trade, national accounts, conumer prices and commodity prices. Choose data range, country, year, and subject. Retrieve data in HTML or CSV format. Thurs 13 April 2006 http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/indexarchive.htm Troop deaths by cause, civilian casualties, Iraqi armed forces, insurgents, car bombs. Telephone subscribers, length of waiting time at gas station, internet subscribers, life expectancy, water and sewer connections. Also includes public opinion polls on U.S. occupation issues broken down by religion. Reports began in November 2003 and are updated weekly. Wed 12 April 2006 http://www.turnerconstruction.com/corporate/content.asp?d=20 National-level commercial construction cost index based on 1967=100. Quarterly data shows index number and percent change from previous year. Wed 12 April 2006 http://www.thesmokinggun.com/graphics/pdf/libbyplame.pdf Statement released on April 5, 2006 suggests President Bush directly authorized release of previously-secret national security estimates about the time Joseph Wilson's op-ed peace on Saddam's nuclear research was released in July 2003. Text from The Smoking Gun. Mon 10 April 2006 http://www.unesco.org/culture/worldreport/ Statistical tables provide data for individual countries on cultural matters. Books and newspapers, radios and TV, leading musical artists (e.g. U2 in Ireland), language, three most frequent religions. Cultural sites visited, tourism, cellphones and personal computers, tourism. Income, human rights laws, social security. Also available in paper copy in the Documents Center as CB 430 .W78. Thu 6 April 2006 http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sconcerns/popchar/popcharMeta.aspx World map can be altered to show which countries asked ethnicity or religion questions, 1994-2004. Click on country to obtain text of questions. Tue 4 April 2006 http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/censusdates.htm Dates individual countries held censuses throughout the period. Links to online versions Tue 4 April 2006 http://liber8.stlouisfed.org/iesd/ Links to over 700 official publications of foreign national governments with economic data. Includes prices and price indexes, monetary reports, employment and GDP. Browsable by subject, country, title, and agency and searchable by keyword. Descriptions in English even though the web site may be in the native language. Thurs 23 March 2006 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/sersetweb/serset1.html Samples of historic government documents on the great explorations, war, civil rights, social conditions, and technology found in Congressional publications since 1789. Instructions on accessing the paper, fiche or online versions at the University of Michigan. Includes links to available publicly-available digitized versions. Mon 20 March 2006 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/videos/conguniv.wmv Guide to using a commercial database that indexes Congressional publications since 1789. Includes search tricks and definitions of the various types of Congressional publications. Video in wmv format. Mon 20 March 2006 http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2006/nss2006.pdf Like its predecessor it covers the U.S. action plan for promoting human rights, defeating terrorism, preventing WMD threats and opening markets. Greater emphasis on resolving regional conflicts and worldwide cooperation. Pre-emptive strikes may be necessary. Written and released by the White House on March 16, 2006. Fri 17 March 2006 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.RES.398: S.Res.398, 109th Congress, was introduced by Senate Russell Feingold of Wisconsin on March 13, 2006 to censure President George W. Bush for domestic wiretapping without obtaining a court order. Link includes full text and legislative status Fri 17 March 2006 http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2006/milosevic/ Slobodan Milsosevic was found dead in his cell at the Hague on March 11, 2006 while on trial for crimes against humanity. Web site includes videos and articles about his rule, a biography, a summary of charges, and key facts on the trial. Sat 11 March 2006 http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/0306/index.htm Report issued by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General in June 2003. Reviews INS regulations, notification of charges, delays in the clearance process, treatment while in detention in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center and the Passaic County Jail. While almost all detainees were guilty of immigration violations, they were treated poorly. Recommendations appear in Chapter 9 and a statistical analysis of detainees in Chapter 10. 7 March 2006 http://www.columbiagazetteer.org/ Dictionary of places and place names, including cities, bridges, maritime or geological features, states, provinces. Each entry provides detailed information on the place, its history, and current economy as appropriate. Search by place name, type of place or keyword. Fri 3 March 2006 http://www.whitehouse.gov/reports/katrina-lessons-learned/ Faults the national security plan and presents 125 recommendations for improvement before the next hurricane season. Report written by Fran Townsend under White House auspices and released on February 23, 2006. Thurs 23 Feb 2006 http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB179/ Article by Matthew Aid on the military and intelligence community's effort to reclassify sensitive government documents already declassified. Briefing book includes a history of the declassification and reclassification programs, public locations of newly-reclassified documents, and the texts of several newly-reclassified documents Wed 22 Feb 2006 http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/docs/62chr/E.CN.4.2006.120_.pdf Calls for the release or trial of all detainees and closure the Guantanamo Bay Facility. Report issued by the UN Commission on Human Rights on February 15, 2006 as E/CN.4/2006/120 Thurs 16 Feb 2006 http://www.gpoaccess.gov/katrinareport/mainreport.pdf Final Report of the (House) Select Bipartisan Commitee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina. Released on February 15, 2006, the report squarely blames all of the leaders and their lack of initiative. Thurs 16 Feb 2006 http://www.cnn.com/2006/images/02/14/CheneyAccidentReport.ap.pdf Copy of report filed with Texas Parks and Wildlife describing mistaken shooting of Harry Whittington on February 11, 2006. Wed 15 Feb 2006 http://www.janda.org/ICPP/index.htm Analyzes world political parties by broad measures such as goal orientation, political alliances, frequency of meetings, factionalism. Web site includes the full text of the 1980 booK: Political Parties, A Cross National Survey. The book compares 158 parties in 53 countries by overall measures and describes them individually. Project run by Kenneth Janda of Northwestern University. Tues 7 Feb 2006 http://comnet.org/mecs/ Report describes the difficulty in defining the community and public policy issues. Maps locate individual middle eastern communities (Lebanese, Iraqi) and social service organizations. Prepared by Michigan COMNET and United Way of Southeast Michigan. Tues 7 Feb 2006 http://comnet.org/hispanic/ Demographics and maps of the Hispanic community in Southeast Michigan as well as cultural values and public policy issues. Includes directories of Hispanic organizations (professional, cultural, health) and churches as well as museums and training programs. Prepared by United Way of Southeastern Michigan and Michigan Comnet. Tues 7 Feb 2006 http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy07/browse.html Full text of budget and appendices in pdf format downloadable by chapter/agency. Also Historical Tables and Analytical Tables. Includes numerous spreadsheets in XLS format, among them Historical Tables and a state-by-state analysis. Mon 6 Feb 2006 http://www.defenselink.mil/qdr/docs/2005-01-25-Strategic-Plan.pdf Defines extremists as people unwilliing to let others live in freedom and are willing to kill. Methods for defeating terrorism include: denying terrorists what they need to operate in a networked environment, shutting down safe harbors, enabling other nations to counter terrorism, and providing humanitarian assistance. Declassified version of report released by the Joint Chiefs of Staff on February 1, 2006. Mon, 6 Feb 2006 http://www.nsa.gov/vietnam/ Memos, oral history interviews, intelligence reports and memoranda from the 1964 event from the National Security Agency. Released November 2005. Fri, 3 Feb 2006 http://www.all-government-job-listings.com/ Lists web pages with federal government jobs by agency and broad subject. Lists state, county and local web pages with job postings by jurisdiction. Fri, 3 Feb 2006 http://forms.gov/bgfPortal/citizen.portal Federal government forms and instructions searchable by agency, title, or form number. Helpful FAQs and contact recommentations. Fri, 3 Feb 2006 http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06365r.pdf Cites the President, FEMA, and Mayor Ray Nagin for lack of leadership in responding to Hurricane Katrina. Official title: Statement by Comptroller General David M. Walker on GAO's Preliminary Observations Regarding Preparedness and Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita GAO-06-365R, February 1, 2006 Wed, 1 Feb. 2006 http://www.elections.ps/ Election law, information for voters, and maps of election districts. Election results by district for the 1996 general elections, 2005 presidential, and 2006 parliamentary elections Mon, Jan 30, 2006 http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/Cost_of_War_in_Iraq.pdf Article by Linda Bilmes of Harvard and Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia. Three-year assessment of war costs, including military costs, the economic costs of personnel injury, and oil prices Mon, Jan 30, 2006 http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/m010506.pdf Declassified memo justifying warrantless wiretaps as a Presidential prerogative in time of war. Issued by the Justice Department on January 19, 2006 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 http://my.acep.org/site/PageServer?pagename=wp1_homepage Ranks states on four characteristics of good hospital emergency room care: access to emergency care, public health and prevention, patient quality and safety, and medical liability. The overall state pages are supplemented by more detailed reports in pdf format. Includes recommendations for state policy changes. Published by the American College of Emergency Physicians in January 2006. Wed, 11 Jan 2006 http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS56729 Excerpts of 38 declassified CIA intelligence estimates on China. Considerable data on China's military, economy and foreign policy toward the Soviet Union. Additional full text documents are available on the CIA web site. http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS61039 Thirty-eight declassified documents from the CIA on the political situation in Vietnam and Cambodia before the during the South Vietnamese War. Assessments of North Vietnamese, Soviet, and Chinese intentions.Statistics, maps and letters. The full text of 174 documents are available on the CIA web site. http://www.thinkprogress.org/abramoff Chart shows who received which trip or special favor. Names link to a more detailed description of Abramoff's gift. http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/abramoff/usabrmff10306plea.pdf Plea agreement signed by Jack Abramoff on January 3, 2006. Includes bribing government officials in return for votes and fraud against Indian tribes but does not name names http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/elec2005/elec2005index1.html Well-researched and written summary of the political environment and candidates for two gubernatorial races, 46 mayoral races (11 in Michigan), and ballot initiatives in 20 states. Includes election results, background on the jurisdictions, pictures of the candidates, and pleasing graphics. Created by Frank M. Lester of the University of Michigan Library http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Ejanavs/iraq.pdf Graphic showing number of troops and percentage casualties of coalition partners as of November 30, 2005. Includes separate list of countries which are no longer providing troops. By Jana von Stein, Political Science Department, University of Michigan http://www.9-11pdp.org/press/2005-12-05_report.pdf Report card on federal government's activities in implementing the original 9-11 Commission recommendations. Covers homeland security, foreign policy, and institutional reform. Released on December 5, 2005. http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/iraq_national_strategy_20051130.pdf Outlines short, medium and long-term benchmarks to be met in Iraq before a U.S. pullout of troops. Defines political, economic and security issues. The appendix defines eight objectives and specific actions the United States is taking. Report released by the National Security Council in November 2005. http://www.campaignmoney.com/ Searchable data base of campaign contributions for Presidential and Congressional candidates beginning in 2000. Access by candidate, political action committee, or 527 organization. Information is cross-listed in several ways. http://www.GovernmentContractsWon.com/ Searchable database of defense contracts awarded since 2000.Search by contractor (e.g. Boeing), product, or keyword. Data includes the amount awarded each year, name of the weapon system, and a link to additional information http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/nationalsecurity/defense_inteldocs.110805.pdf Defense Department directive requires humane treatment of prisoners by the military and CIA. Issued November 8, 2005 http://www.taxreformpanel.gov/final-report/ Document outlines two alternative tax plans both of which lower tax rates, eliminate paper work and the alternative minimum tax, eliminate many tax shelters but not those for home ownership, charitable giving or health care. Comparison tables are given in the front pages of the first volume. Committee chaired by Connie Mack and report submitted on November 1, 2005 http://www.pandemicflu.gov/ National strategy for identifying and responding to a possible flu pandemic, key facts on the flu and vaccines, monitoring outbreaks, and research activities. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051101-1.html Speech given at the National Institutes of Health on November 1, 2005. The strategy includes an international partnership of surveillance, stockpiling of current flu vaccines and remedies, investing in technology to create new vaccines rapidly, and federa-state-local partnerships. http://www.law.umich.edu/library/news/topics/alito/alitoindex.htm Extensive links to texts of opinions, briefs, and articles. Created by the University of Michigan Law Library. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/iraqwar.html#cialeak Identifies the original articles by Joe Wilson and Robert Novak as well as Special Counsel Fitzgerald's web site. http://www.iic-offp.org/story27oct05.htm Final report by the Volcker Commission released on October 27, 2005. Claims that 2200 individuals and corporations as well as several countries were involved in kickbacks. Blames poor management at the UN. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html Pre-instrument weather estimates from around the world. Searchable by latitude and longitude, country or state, and method (insects, ice, fire, etc.). Includes slide shows and publications. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/un60/un60.html Web site celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations on October 24, 2005 with a description of the origins, charter, structure, and work of the United Nations. Created by Catherine Morse and Sarah Cookingham, the pages are beautifully executed with graphics and links. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR2005101800616.html Provides answers to questions on public and private service, jury trials, constitutional experience, teaching experience, potential conflicts of interest. Article in the web version of the Washington Post but may not appear in print. http://www.law.umich.edu/library/news/topics/miers/miersindex.htm Selection of briefs and articles written by Ms. Miers. News articles and biographies about her. http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/images/09/28/delay.indictment.pdf Text of indictment by Texas grand jury against DeLay and associates for campaign fraud. http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/elections.html Internet books, data sets, journals, news, and government web sites. Worldwide coverage with separate coverage of elections by world regions, countries, electoral systems, and woman suffrage. All entries are richly annotated http://electionresources.org/ Extensive list of countries with their election web sites. Current foreign election news. http://freegovinfo.info/node/174 Links to federal and state government agencies with podcasts. These audio feeds can be heard on an IPod or a PC http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/govdatasets/external.html Extensive list of global and regional data sets with their corresponding web sites. Includes emerging market access, corruption, election process, environment, women's rights http://www.american.edu/ia/cfer/ "Building Confidence in U.S. Elections" was released on Sept. 19, 2005. Among the recommendations: State-based rather than local-based voter registration system, photo ID cards at the polls, auditable backup of electronic voting machines, and states should crack down on election fraud. Commission was co-chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker. http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/ Historic Full Text section of LEXIS-NEXIS Congressional has the full text of over 333,000 documents and 50,000 maps. Includes all legislative reports on bills, some hearings, national commission reports, and most Executive Branch documents issued during the 19th Century. Source for social, military, economic, and technology history (immigration, Civil War, Treasury annual reports, lighthouses) as well as geographic explorations. Indexed by subject, keyword, author, geography, bill number, law number, witness name, serial number, and SUDOCS number. http://www.policyagendas.org/ Determine the amount of attention government gave to 19 major topics, 220 subtopics, or a section of the budget, 1946-2002. Filters allow you to choose topics and the type of material (budget, Congressional hearings, Presidential executive orders, laws, New York Times articles, CQ Almanac articles, and the Gallup Most Important Problem Index. Results yield data and graphs. Additional dataset tools available. http://www.loc.gov/rr/law/nominations.html Separate tables provide primary information on the current sitting justices and four who were not confirmed (Bork, Carswell, Haynsworth, and Thornberry. Includes hearings, floor debates, floor votes, and Senate floor statements. http://www.law.umich.edu/library/news/topics/roberts/robertsindex.htm Comprehensive guide, including Roberts' oral arguments, opinions, briefs, and National Archives records http://www.katrinahousing.net/ Comprehensive guide to alternative housing for Katrina evacuees. Search for housing by state or city. Information includes number of beds, additional information, and a means to contact the donor. Provides system for housing donations. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SETUPS/ On-line textbook with exercises on using Berkeley's Data Analysis Software to measure the 2004 results and voter characteristics. Based on the American National Election Study of 2004 from ICPSR http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/dn05/dn05govt.html#katrina Predictions and simulations on a New Orleans disaster; FEMA, Defense Department, Army Corps of Engineers, Hurricane Center, New Orleans, and Louisiana web sites; relief agencies. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/congress/senate/judiciary/scourt.html PDF versions of Senate Judiciary nomination hearings for the late William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, and John Paul Stevens. Some hearings are 40 MB. http://www.congresslink.org/Frantzich/unit1_intro.htm Compact but entertaining tool for undertstanding the federal legislative process. Each unit from introduction to bill signing includes legislative definitions, strategies, statistics and quirks, and the legislative junkie (links to information sources). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/24_08_05_constit.pdf Full text of constitution to be submitted to voters in October 2005. Translated from Arabic into English and distributed by the Associated Press in pdf format. http://votingresearch.org/USAliberalcities.doc Ranks 237 U.S. cities from most to least liberal (Detroit to Provo). Released by Bay Area Center for Voter Research in August 2005. Word format. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/supremecourt.xls Spreadsheet showing presidents since Teddy Roosevelt, their years in office, and the names of their appointments to the Supreme Court. Justices are also identified by their status (chief/associate) and the years they held office. Compiled by Frank M. Lester. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/dn05/dn05cour.html#roberts Nomination hearings for the D.C. Circuit Court in 2003 as well as circuit court decisions and biographies of Judge Roberts. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/2004_presidential_election_polls.html Roper Center sells CDs of detailed exit polls from the news organization pools. The 2004 polltaker was Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International; the 2000 was Voter News Service. Detailed microdata at the national and state level includes Presidential and Senatorial choices, reasons for voting, and voter characteristics (age, income, religion). http://pewforum.org/publications/surveys/postelection.pdf Data and analysis on how members of various religions voted for President and why in 2004. National level only. http://www.gasbuddy.com/ Find prices of gasoline at individual stations via zip code or city to within the last 36 hours. http://www.eco5.com/ Excellent source for time series of financial data (stock market, exchange rates, GDP, interest rates. Covers primarily the U.S., U.K., Japan, Germany and France but other countries represented as well. Some data begins with the 19th Century http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4659093.stm Comprehensive coverage of the attack on London's transportation system during rush hour on July 7, 2005. Eyewitness accounts and pictures, reaction of Prime Minister Blair, and policy considerations. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/legislative/sap/index.html Statements sent to the House or Senate regarding the Bush Administration's policy on specific bills. May be as short as a paragraph or several pages long. Includes intended vetoes http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstc/cps_table_creator.html Create your own tables using microdata from the Current Population Survey, 2002+. Seven easy steps include rows and columns with variables, years, and subsets by age, state, race, Hispanic, nativity, employment. Variables include age, race, nativity, employment, poverty, income, household type. Various options for formatting. http://www.ourcampaigns.com/home.html 2004 election results for President, Senate, House, and Governors by state. Each table provides votes of winner, percent, margin of victory, and percent of victory. Presidential table also includes state electoral votes and split electoral votes for state when applicable. Includes information on pre-election polls. http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/ Full text of many reports since the early 1990s as compiled by the University of North Texas. Browse by broad heading or search by subject. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html Secret British memo dated July 2002 assumes that President Bush going to war with Iraq. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/debate05.html Numerous primary sources on surveillance and detention of U.S. citizens and terrorists. Military tribunals, Abu Ghraib, Guantamo, Patriot Act. Presidential orders, treaties, laws, CRS reports, Civil Rights Commission Reports, Taguba report. How to search for books, articles, and think tank assessments. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fbi911.html Redacted report released by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General in June 2005. Says FBI agents dropped the ball on the use of airlines for terrorist attacks and two of the hijackers. University of Michigan version divided into chapters for ease of downloading. http://www.9-11pdp.org/ Members of the 9/11 Commission formed their own organization and web page after being officially disbanded in August 2004. Their web site contains some speeches and a schedule of privately held hearings. Ultimately will provide a report court on follow-up to the 9/11 Commission Recommendations http://www.princeton.edu/~voteview/ Free software download to analyze key roll call votes in Congress, 1789-1988.Choose issue to determine number of yea and nay votes by party. May map the data by geography or ideology. Does not include the names of individual Members of Congress. http://www.docuticker.com/ Several postings each day with links and annotations to new government (federal/international) reports on the internet. RSS feed is also available. http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/obc.pdf Report of the Overseas Basing Commission issued May 2005 http://www.defenselink.mil/brac/ Web site with various lists of possible domestic base closures, economic impact on the communities, and Congressional testimony http://www.worldwide-tax.com/index.asp#partthree Table by country with corporate, personal, and value added tax rates http://www.ccaacollect.com/NSFCHECKPAMPHLET2004.pdf Compares each state on legal aspects of bad checks: number of days to resolve the bank shortage, misdemeanor v. felony, service fees, and criminal penalties. Prepared by the Commercial Collection Agency Association. http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/index.html Federation of American Scientists' list of documents removed from the Los Alamos National Laboratory web site in 2002. A scattering of publications (titles underlined) are available on the internet. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/gponet/net0405a.htm Federal government publications released on the internet for the first week in April 2005 http://gatt.stanford.edu/page/home Search or browse over 30,000 documents and 300 publications on reducing trade barriers. Free registration required to view the pdf version of the full text. Web site sponsored by Stanford University. GATT was the immediate predecessor of the World Trade Organization. http://www.pisa.oecd.org/ Country data on student performance in reading, mathematics, and science for the industrialized nations (Europe, Japan, Australia, U.S. Canada, New Zealand. Learning for Tomorrow's World includes provides spreadsheets and pdf files of the 2003 data. http://wtc.nist.gov/ Series of reports on the causes for the collapse of the World Trade Center and future solutions. Covers structural issues, fire safety, occupant egress. Includes photos and simulations. Final report issued on April 5, 2005 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. http://www.wmd.gov/report/index.html Believes miscalculation on Iraq's WMD due to biased intelligence analysis, lack of information sharing, and absence of strong leadership. Known as the Robb-Silberman Report. Presented to President Bush on the March 31, 2005. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2005/0305.html#0305a News and documents from the Schiavo case, Terri's advocacy web site, and sample legal forms for living wills and durable power of attorney. http://www.deq.state.mi.us/documents/deq-wd-gws-ciu-as.htm Individual maps for Michigan's 83 counties categorize arsenic into five amounts detected through samples, 1983-2003 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/xls/2002GovOrgDirectory_SD.xls Excel spreadsheet created from the Census Bureau's Public Use data files.Shows the names of special government districts (school, water, airport, transportation) by state and county. Use a filter in the Type of Government column to determine all the names of local water authorities or transit bureaus in the country. http://www.michigan.gov/ag/0,1607,7-164--111010--,00.html Michigan Attorney General's advice to citizens on avoiding identity theft while requesting credit reports via phone, mail, or the internet. http://www2a.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/vspmain.asp Taking a cruise to beat the winter blahs? Check out this CDC web site for a very complete sanitation report on just about everything. http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/index.htm Over 1.5 million pages of documents, photographs, slides, audiotapes, and oral histories of the Vietnam War. Various indexes which can be modified by type of material (e.g. photographs of swift boats). http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statelaw.html Table for all states and territories with web links to the state web site, bills, session laws, legal codes, constitution, new regulations and executive orders, codified regulations, attorney general opinions, state courts, and main newspapers http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/pdf/bushcivilrights.pdf A September 2004 draft removed from the Civil Rights Commission web site in January 2005. The Documents Center is one of several web sites that have preserved a copy. http://iraq.usembassy.gov/iraq/ambassador.html John Negroponte chosen National Intelligence Director. Biography from his embassy web site. http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/index.htm Memo written by counter-terrorism expert to the Bush Administration on January 25, 2001 urging meeting to discuss Al-Qaeda. The meeting was eventually held on September 4, 2001. Memo declassified on February 10, 2005 http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/staff_report_3.pdf Cites 52 warnings given to FAA between April and September 2001 on possible Al-Qaeda hijackers. Report classified until released by National Archives on February 10, 2005. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy06/browse.html Full text of budget and appendices in pdf format downloadable by chapter. Also Historical Tables and Analytical Tables http://www.iic-offp.org/documents.htm Interim report on alleged United Nations program exchanging food for Iraqi oil. Paul Volcker chaired the committee http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2005/0105.html#0105g Hard-to-find country reports and UN decisions on human rights practices. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/pdf/Darfur.pdf United Nations report on human rights abuses in the Sudan and issued February 2005. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2005/0105.html#0105f Key regulations, candidates and parties in the January 30th election. http://web1.whs.osd.mil/mmid/casualty/castop.htm Killed or wounded in Iraq by branch of service andeither age, race, gender, or rank. Deaths also indicate reserve status.Casualty statistics beginning with the Revolutionary War vary in detail but usually include deaths by branch of service http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/01/20050120-1.html http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/jibjabinaugural.html JibJab's animated video President Bush's plans for his second term. http://www.healthierus.gov/dietaryguidelines/ Government recommendations on calories, exercise, fat, carbs, fiber, vitamins and minerals. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/01/20050111-2.html White House press release and video of President's announcement. http://intjobs.org/ Want ads for jobs with international intergovernmental agencies, primarily from the UN group. http://genderstats.worldbank.org/home.asp Foreign statistical data on poverty, education, health, labor force, and political participation broken down by gender. Approach data by country and then theme or via the country profiles. Compiled from various UN and World Bank databases. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2005/0105.html#0105d World Bank data base with 593 series of demographic, economic, and environmental information for 226 countries. Web edition replaces departed CITRIX CD-ROM version. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2005/0105.html#0105e World Bank data base with 217 time series on national debt for 197 countries. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2005/0105.html#0105c Beta test for extracting 1790-2000 Census data and geographic boundary files http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2005/0105.html#0105b Free public access to all United Nations publications since 1993 in a new web site. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2005/0105.html#0105a Numerous web sites list charitable organizations accepting contributions for the relief of tsunami victims in Southeast Asia. Documents on prison abuse investigations in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and the United States obtained by ACLU under the Freedom of Information Act. http://www.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/ University of Michigan press release provides details of Google's plan to digitize its 7-million printed volumes. Includes a link to FAQs and Google's press release. http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2004/Dec04/library/index The Presidents of the United States section of the Internet Public Library lists the names of cabinet officials since 1789 under the names of their respective leaders. Most entries are linked to online biographies. http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/potus/ The executive summary reviewed 59 sexual assault cases at the Air Force Academy between 1993 and 2002. Mishandling may have been caused by poor communication and peer loyalty. http://www.af.mil/library/posture/usafa_report_exec_sum.pdf THOMAS, the Library of Congress legislation search engine, features various versions of the National Intelligence Reform Act, passed by Congress on December 7-8. Until the enrolled version is issued, use the Congressional Record link to the conference report version. House and Senate roll call votes appear under the "Bill Status" section of the entry. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:s.02845: Political plums are office appointments made by the President rather than through civil service protocols. This year's list of potential appointments is arranged by government agency with the name of the incumbent and pay grade. GPO has made this publication available in pdf format as either one large file or divided into chapters. You can also buy a paper copy through GPO. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plumbook/2004/index.html http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2004/1204.html#1204c Spreadsheet of map and data sources for Detroit neighborhoods, 1860-2000. GY. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2004/1204.html#1204b Census tract data was first taken in 1940. Ward data for some large cities was published in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Consumers can request a free copy of their credit report online. Currently available to residents of Western states. Midwest: 3/1/05; South: 6/1/05; East: 9/1/05. Sponsored by Equifax, Transunion, and Experian. http://www.AnnualCreditReport.com/ http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2004/1204.html#1204a A quick and easy way to compare presidential votes by age, sex, education, income, and other demographic characteristics is to use the exit poll data archived on the CNN web site since 1996. Purchasing power of the U.S. dollar since 1665 and British pound since 1264. Historic interest rates, price of gold, and GDP for both countries with many series dating back 800 years. U.S. and British exchange rates with 40 other countries for a minimum of 90 years. GY http://eh.net/hmit/ Full text of speeches, press releases and executive orders, 1993-2000. Plans for dedication on November 18, 2004 http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/ Eleven-minute training video on creating 2000 Census maps using the Geolytics CD-ROM. 10.3 MB in Windows Media (wmv) format. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/videos/geo2000.wmv Keep track of the comings and goings in the Bush cabinet by monitoring Documents in the News. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/dn04/dn04govt.html#second Web sites reporting tally difficulties with electronic voting equipment in 2004 election. GY http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2004/1104.html#1111a CIA map (2004) with considerable zoom on relief features. GY http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS54757 Census Bureau's statistical summary on U.S. veterans. CB http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/002827.html Recommendations to Governor Granholm on improving state's mental health services, released October 25, 2004. DS http://www.michigan.gov/mentalhealth/0,1607,7-201--98116--,00.html Compendium of U.S. data, colonial times through 1970, on web in pdf format. AS http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2004/1104.html#1110c Spreadsheets showing Congressional makeup by state and district for the 109th Congress with comparisons to the 108th. GY http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2004/1104.html#1110b Maps based on population density provide a different perspective on the Presidential election. DS http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2004/1104.html#1110a Livingroom Candidate provides a free source for Presidential ads, 1952-2004, in Windows Media and RealPlayer formats. FL http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2004/presads.html The sheer size of the CIA's report on Iraqi WMD (50-70 MB) makes it hard to read. Alternatives files in the 10 MB range are available. GY http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2004/duel.html How to access free transcripts of UN General Assembly and Security Council debates since 2000. GY http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2004/ungaor.pdf Most Presidential election statistics are tabulated by county, but there are commercial sources for a Congressional District breakdown. GY http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/news/2004/prescd.html