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Congressional Email Directory Jeffrey Hoffman has created this page as a tool for locating and contacting your elected representatives. Both homepage links and email addresses, where applicable, are included. Cool Government Site of the Week Quirky page - past winners include "The US Postal Service 10 Most-Wanted Posters," "Astronaut Flight Menu," and "Human Radiation Experiments." It is outdated now, however. Department of Energy Includes links to various DOE departments, news, and resources. Search all DOE document titles: Search OpenNet, which includes references to all declassified DOE documents: The Electronic Activist An email-address directory for members of Congress, state governments, and US media entities. Federal Aviation Administration File Search Search for descriptions of almost 1,000 FAA documents (not content from the documents themselves). You can also browse lists, or indexes, of FAA documents. The search engine ignores special characters like the "-" character in DC-9 and treats DC and 9 each as one word. Instead, search for DC AND 9. Select the directory from which you wish to retrieve files: All FAA Libraries/Directories Continued Airworthiness Information (FAA) Aircraft Service Information (FAA) Airman Training and Testing (FAA) Other Aviation Information (FAA) Regulatory Information (FAA) Federal Communications Commission Regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. Stop by and say hi to Reed Hundt and friends. They've overstocked with wireless! Everything must go! Concept Keywords Federal Government Agencies Lists more government agencies than you knew existed. Divided into executive, judicial, legislative, quasi-official, and (even) other categories. FedWorld Consolidates many federal links and information. Search the site or browse through the well-constructed subject index. Government Printing Office Search for full texts simultaneously through the GPO's stash: US Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Congressional Record, GAO reports, Privacy Act, and many more. Hold down your shift or option key to select more than one database to search. Phrases must be in quotation marks (" "). The operators ADJ (adjacent), AND, OR, and NOT can be used, but must be in capital letters. For example: "environmental protection agency" AND superfund. 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Enough said. Library of Congress Search the Library of Congress using their Web gateway below - or through a telnet interface, which lets you search for federal legislation as well. Go to the LOC site for more narrow searches and a Vietnam War-era POW/MIA database. The LOC database is available 6:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday, and 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Sunday (all times Eastern). Title Personal name (ex. "Gore, Al") National Science Foundation An independent federal agency promoting science and engineering. Their external links page is a broad listing of research sites. Enter keywords, separated by commas: National Security Agency The NSA is actually a front for the presidential bakery. It's all very hush-hush, so no one can trace the midnight donuts back to the president. Stewart Baker, chief counsel for the NSA, swam upstream in "Don't Worry, Be Happy," Wired 2.06. Search this site's domain using HotBot: Recent US Government Reports Here you can search abstracts of recent US government reports, studies, and information products sent to NTIS within the past 30 days. NTIS is the largest single source for public access to federally produced scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information (they get roughly 7,000 such docs per month). You can also view the full NTIS Bibliographic Database, containing more than 1.6 million citations for government documents dating back to the '20s. To further customize your search, visit the Recent US Government Reports page. Search Terms: Sandia National Laboratories A repository of technical details concerning the American nuclear arsenal. Where all the bugs are ironed out, as in "Are we sure this is going to go off when it hits Cuba?" See Richard Rapaport's "The Playground of Big Science," Wired 3.10. Use quotes, as well as "and" and "or," to restrict searches. ServeNet Maintained by Youth Service America, ServeNet has links to the service field and a database of volunteerships/service opportunities. Area of ServeNet to search: YSA Affiliates Calendar Jobs Library Links Message Boards News Résumés All Areas Keywords: AND OR THOMAS: Legislative Info on the Net Full text of legislation, and of the Congressional Record. Also: The US Constitution, Congress and Senate info, as well as information from C-SPAN. Search legislation from the 105th Congress (1997-98): Word/phrase search: E.g., line item veto, abortion, hazardous waste, death penalty All bills | Bills with floor action | Enrolled bills sent to the president Both House and Senate bills | House bills only | Senate bills only Bill number search: E.g., h.r. 1425, S. 896, h.j.res. 125, sconres 24, H.Res. 99 Return documents. The US Department of State The lead US foreign affairs agency has reams of information regarding particular countries, global issues, and US foreign policy. Search this domain using HotBot: US Census Bureau The Factfinder for the Nation online. Includes data for population and housing, economic growth, and geography. Enter words or phrases, separated by commas. US General Accounting Office The GAO audits and evaluates government programs and activities. US House of Representatives Included are links to services published by individual House offices, and links to federal, state, international, and foreign law. The names, addresses, and phone numbers for representatives are also here, but for some reason they're careful not to list homepages. Search this site's domain using HotBot: US Information Service The US Information Agency is an independent foreign affairs agency within the executive branch of the US government. It maintains more than 200 posts in 143 countries, where it is known as USIS, the US Information Service. USIA explains and supports American foreign policy and promotes US national interests through a wide range of overseas information programs. US Senate Senators' homepages and email addresses, along with documents supplied by members and committees. Track bills through Congress or use the glossary of Senate terms to find out what the "whip" is for. Search this site's domain using HotBot: White House Includes the Interactive Citizens' Handbook, a virtual library, and best of all, how to send email to the president. Search this site's domain using HotBot:

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