Since 1859, the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress has been the primary source for biographical information on Members of the United States Congress and Continental Congresses.

Provides access to relevant sources relating to the composition and structure of Article III Courts, as well as documents prepared by various Congresses relating to the purpose, formation, organization and restructuring of the federal government.

Includes hearings (1824-present); CRS Reports (1916-present); House and Senate Documents/Reports (Serial Set; 1817-present); legislative histories (1969-present); bills and laws (1776-present); miscellaneous publications including GAO, CBO, the American State Papers, the House and Senate Journals (1789-present); vote reports (1987-present); maps (1789-2007); Congressional Record (1789-present); executive branch (1789-1932); and presidential materials such as executive orders (1789-present). Many of these are full text.

Provides original analysis and data on major legislation and political dates during each Congressional session back to 1945. Available online through 2015. Newer editions in paper at JK 1 .C66.

Provided in-depth reports on issues that cover the U.S. Congress, status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, backroom maneuvering, debates and all roll-call votes. Search by topic, page number, committee, bill number, byline or reporter. Full text available.

Provided authoritative information on members of Congress. Full text available.

NOTE: link goes to archived version on the Wayback Machine.
Published by the Committee on Ways and Means of the United States House of Representatives. Provides background material and statistical data on the major entitlement programs and other activities within the Committee's jurisdiction. Includes a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, and poverty.

A federal legislative history service containing full-text publications generated by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws. Texts available include the full text of the Public Law itself, Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, prints, and other congressional publications.

Includes: Congressional Record bound volume set (1873-present) as well as its three predecessor titles: Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates (1824-1837) and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873). The Congressional Record Daily edition is also available from 1980-present. U.S. Congressional Serial Set, Congressional Hearings, Rules & Precedents, Committee Prints, Congressional Budget Office Publications, CRS Reports, Congressional Directory, Other Works Related to Congress

References to federal, state, local and international public documents.

Index of U.S. government documents and some technical reports.

Provides access to information disseminated by the U.S. Government Printing Office. It provides official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Documents related to the U.S. Federal Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches.

Electronic version of the 21-volume publication; covers Eisenhower's career before and during World War II and through his presidency.

Provides access to all U.S. treaties, whether currently in force, expired, or not yet officially published.

Full text of previously classified U.S. government documents. The majority of the documents are presidential records.

Over 9.5 million links to digital content, including full-text printed material, maps, photographs, illustrations, and statistical datasets.

The Caselaw Access Project (“CAP”) expands public access to U.S. law. The goal is to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format.

Seeks to provide free access to primary legal materials, develop legal research tools, and support academic research on legal corpora.

Provides access to federal and state case law, statutes, regulation, constitutions, and court rules.

Search the full-text of court opinions and legal journals available on the Internet. Choose to search case law rather than articles.

Legal periodicals, code of federal regulations, legal classics, treaties and agreements, U.S. Attorney General opinions, U.S. Federal Legislative History, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. statutes at large, the U.S. Supreme Court Library, and more.

Allows researchers to understand and analyze Native American migration and forced resettlement throughout U.S. history, U.S. Government Indian removal policies, and subsequent actions to address Native American claims against the U.S. Government. Includes congressional publications, treaties, maps, and docket materials for all Indian Claims Commission cases, as well as cases that preceded and followed the existence of the commission.

Offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics including criminal justice, ethics, federal law, international law, labor and human resource law, medical law, organized crime and the environment; some full text is available.

Offers tools and how-to instructions covering a wide-range of legal issues. A majority of the full-text legal reference books available are provided through Nolo, a provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. With the Legal Forms by U.S. State feature, users can search state-specific legal forms by top subject areas, including adoption, bankruptcy, name changes and more. Some full text is available.

Documents related to the U.S. Federal Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches.

More than 21,000 Anglo-American works from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, etc.

Documents on Anglo-American trials including published trial transcripts; popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder; unofficially published accounts of trials, briefs, arguments, and other trial documents; official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitration sessions; and books and pamphlets about specific trials.

The official case location system for the federal government. NOTES: PACER requires an individual registration, and once you register you must search quarterly to keep your account active. PACER charges you for each search run and each document retrieved, but no fee is owed for electronic access to court data or audio files until an account holder accrues charges of more than $30.00 in a quarterly billing cycle.

Contains the session laws of all 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, as well as governmental session laws from the United States, Australia, Canada, and the Bahamas. Full text available.

Brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, including more than 1,000 books and pamphlets.

Provides access to all U.S. treaties, whether currently in force, expired, or not yet officially published.

Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the United States House of Representatives.

Full-text of the United States Code (official version) and the Statutes at Large in PDF page image format going back to the start of these publications. This database should be your source for locating official Acts of Congress or references to the official code.