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Education || Elections || Environment || Health || History || Int'l Agencies & Organizations
Labor/Employment || Laws and Regulations || Statistics || Tax Forms|| Travel

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Alabama & State Government

Arts & Humanities

Business & Economy

Commerce Business Daily
Consumer Price Indexes (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Economic Census
Federal Reserve Board -- includes foreign exchange rates, consumer fraud information.
FinanceNet
Securities & Exchange Commission -- includes the EDGAR database, which provides the full-text of company filings.

U.S. Census Bureau

Census of Population and Housing

American FactFinder -- provides access to community profiles, population and housing facts, maps, and business and industry facts.

Census 2000 Home Page

Census Population Categories

Housing and Household Economics Statistics

Census of Agriculture

Census of Governments

Economic Census

Congressional / Legislative Information

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present

United States House of Representatives

Alabama Representatives

Jo Bonner (1st District)

Rep. Terry Everett (2nd District)

Mike Rogers (3rd District)

Rep. Robert B. Aderholt (4th District)

Rep. Bud Cramer (5th District)

Rep. Spencer Bachus (6th District -- includes Birmingham)

Artur Davis (7th District)

United States Senate

Alabama Senators

Senator Jeff Sessions

Senator Richard Shelby

THOMAS -- search full-text of bills & laws from 105th Congress-present.

Consumer Information

Better Business Bureau

Catalog of Domestic Federal Assistance

Consumer Product Safety Commission

Federal Consumer Information Center, Pueblo, CO
U.S. Consumer Gateway

Education

Department of Education

AskERIC -- hosted by Syracuse University for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology. Provides education information for teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, and parents; includes keyword searching of ERIC Database.

National Center for Education Statistics -- two publications included in the NCES Electronic Catalog are the Digest of Education Statistics and the Condition of Education, both of which are also available in the Government Documents Collection.

Student Financial Assistance -- provides information for students and parents on different types of financial aid; links to the web version of the Free Application for Student Financial Aid (FAFSA)

Elections

How to Register & Vote in the United States -- non-partisan site that includes voter registration information for all 50 states, as well as a history of voting, and links to national and state-wide parties and candidates.

Project Vote-Smart, Candidates & Elected Officials -- provides biographies, campaign finances, issue positions, performance evaluations, & voting records for candidates and elected officials in all 50 states as well as the federal government.

U.S. Federal Election Commission -- campaign laws, financial information about candidates, parties, and political action committees. Also includes a searchable database of campaign finance data.

Elections Around the World -- provides election results from all over the world, a calendar of upcoming elections, and links to parliaments & parties.

More information is available on our Elections page.

Environment

Department of the Interior

National Park Service

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

U.S. Geological Survey

USDA Forest Service

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Science Inventory

Health

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Administration on Aging

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

National Center for Health Statistics

OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration

CancerNet

clinicaltrials.gov -- allows searching and browsing, by disease or by sponsor, of clinical research studies currently recruiting patients.

Community Health Status Report

disability.gov

healthfinder.gov

History/Historical Documents

American Memory (Library of Congress)

Avalon Project of Historical Documents (Yale Law School)

Center of Military History (U.S. Army)

Century of Lawmaking in a New Nation (American Memory) -- includes Congressional debates, Journals of the Continental Congress, House & Senate Journals, Serial Set, U.S. Statutes at Large, and more, all available for searching.

Constitution of the United States of America

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy

Links to the Past (National Park Service)

National Archives and Records Administration

National Security Archive (George Washington University)

Smithsonian Institution

International Agencies, Organizations, & Area Studies

Labor/Employment

America's Job Bank

Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

National Labor Relations Board

USAJobs (Office of Personnel Management)
Laws and Regulations
Legal Information

Findlaw.com

Legal Information Institute (Cornell)

Legal Research via Academic Universe

Public Laws (GPO Access)

Supreme Court of the United States

Supreme Court Decisions, 1937-1975 (GPO Access)

Supreme Court Decisions, 1992-present (GPO Access)

U.S. Code (GPO Access)

Regulations

Code of Federal Regulations (GPO Access)

Federal Register (GPO Access)

Federal Regulatory Information -- full-text, agency, and background resources available via the Internet (UMich)

THOMAS

Statistics

Tax Forms

U.S. Internal Revenue Service

Federal Tax Forms (IRS)

State Tax Agency Forms (IRS/Federation of Tax Administrators) -- includes downloadable forms for all 50 states.

Alabama Tax Forms & Publications(AL Dept. of Revenue)

Travel

Bureau of Consular Affairs (U.S. Dept. of State) -- travel warnings, passport information, list of doctors/hospitals abroad, etc.

CDC Travelers' Health (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) -- Provides health information for travelers, including vaccinations and diseases. Includes a Traveler Checklist, an "In the News" section, and
Recreation.Gov (National Park Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Land Management, Tennessee Valley Authority, USDA Forest Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Federal Highway Administration) -- Inter-agency site that provides information about recreation on federal land. Allows searching by state and by activity.