Information on US State servers and free (public) internet access.
A great place for information of all sorts. Global facts galore! There is so much info on so many countries and topics and subjects with included graphics and detailed explanations that I could never begin to list it all. This site is a wonderful resource for the info-hound and for the researcher that needs to have a wealth of information for reports and writings.
Congressional info galore - more than you thought they'd let you know! This web page covers both houses of Congress. Includes the full text of all bills in Congress, both current and the prior year, with information on each of the bills. Also has an informative list of all Congressional members describing party affiliation, brief biographies, other government services, how they voted on certain bills and home state affiliation. You also have access to the "Congressional Record" and can read an easy to understand primer on "how a bill becomes law". This site is not to be missed and all U.S. citizens should make this a *must read* and *must see*.
LOCIS provides the Library of Congress card catalog and all three Library of Congress sites offer plenty of information. You can find abstracts of foreign and domestic bills, info on laws, Congressional bill tracking (dating back to 1993) and much more. All three offer the researcher excellent bibliographic data although LOCIS is geared specifically to such a task. LOCIS supports advanced search techniques and offers fast info look-up and retrieval. LOC sites (gopher and web) offer alternative means of accessing Congressional information and also offer many links to outside sources and related topics/info. These three sites should be on every researcher's "must visit" list.
Contains vast amounts of info relating to the House of Representatives. Includes bills in the House and the status of such bills, current House debates, schedules, member directory, full text of bills and much more.
Another mega-site of information that includes information pertaining to Senate members, member activities, press releases, committee reports, and many other legislative topics and issues. There is simply too much to list.
*note - there are many other sub-directories within the ftp.senate.gov site. Please take the time to check them out!
A virtual warehouse of information awaits you at this ftp site. Contains Congressional committee reports, policy statements and various political party statements and policies. Recent Senatorial debates info and many positional papers over bills and topics up for debate. There is simply too much to list here - you can easily get lost for days but the info here is extensive and fairly well organized. Explore and learn...
Contains info, links and virtual tours of the White House
All sorts of Presidential papers are available to the public. Including all White House transcripts and press releases.
A vast site filled with political and governmental info and topics.
Emphasis on telecom and high-tech policies.
Excellent resource - lots of information to be found here.
A virtual warehouse of information resides here. Over 120 Government BBS systems along with consumer information, State and National travel info and advisories, White House and federal info, AIDS info and other disease control info, and links to the Department of Health and Human Services. There is simply too much to list here but let it be known that FedWorld sites are absolutely full of information, links and pointers to numerous sources and resources of government and governmnet related information, statistics and services. A *must visit* for any person that wants to be more informed about the US governmental systems operations and all the service related and assistance related programs in place and proposed.
Please see the "Educational Reference" section for other Library of Congress listings and further information on these sites and what they offer.
At the main menu select "Government Center" then select "United States of America." You will then see "GPO Access"; select GPO Access and you will then be "in" the GPO archives.
Ah... ACRONYMS... in any case this very informative GPO telnet site has all of the published versions of bills beginning with proposed legislation from the 103rd Congress. This site also includes complete texts of the "Congressional Record" and the "Federal Register". There are many other documents and complete databases available here as well. The GPO site uses a very sophisticated WAIS engine (Wide Area Information Search) to search through the mounds of available info here. This site even has complete texts of Congressional floor speeches and debates. The entire text of any info stored here can be searched including the "Congressional Record" and other publications within this huge archive. A researcher's paradise.
A huge collection of links and listings can be found using this WWW Virtual Library section that features Government Agencies. There are many links to federal depts. such as the NRC, CIA, National Museum of History and the Voice of America. Many more links and info on agencies are to be had here. Excellent site.
An unbelievably huge database of archives and information. Has a very wide variety of issues, topics and papers. Includes the current Federal Budget statistics and much, much more. Please explore and go into the many sub-directories available through these sites. Another researcher's must see site. There is positively too much to list or begin to explain here.
This statistical site has info on such things as state rankings in various topics, charts, tables, graphs and county profiles from all 50 states.
This site has info on former and current Soviet Republics, former and current leaders and a copy of the revised Russian Constitution. Other Russian information is also available. Offers a list of related ftp sites.
Complete database for the Administration for Children and Families, under the Dept. of Health and Human Services. Full program descriptions including Aid to Dependent Families stats and facts and much more.
This archive is housed at the Univ of Missouri-St. Louis gopher site and contains a wealth of information. Early History of Indonesia, the coming of Islam, sources of local identification, languages and many other topics. Links to the Library of Congress Asia Field Operations study and a complete chronology of events makes this the most authoritative source on the net for Indonesian culture and information. You might even enjoy the info! The info is exhaustive and full term and research papers can be done from this site alone. Students - take note. One stop shopping for reports here.
Ze revolution home page comrade!
Kinda like "Soldiers of Fortune" web style. Information about the federal government's "Counter Terrorism Rewards Program" which offers high price awards of up to $4 million dollars (US) for information which leads to the prevention and/or disruption of terrorist acts or the apprehension of wanted terrorists or info that leads to arrest and/or conviction of wanted terrorists. A listing of wanted terrorists is posted along with info on previous terrorists activities including the Pan Am flight 103 bombing and other assorted terrorist acts of violence. Each terrorist incident has plenty of background info including photo clips and suspect profiles.
Includes topical info but also includes info for foreign visitors and links to the local gopher (above). Also has links to Polish Network Resources, a JPEG photo collection and travelogue/tourist guide by Michael Rozek that presents historical facts and cultural traditions in an easy to read and informal style. You'll love this informative virtual trip to Poland.
Learn about Amnesty International's mission and how they are battling torture, political imprisonments, "dissapearances" and other human-rights abuses. Political repression and capital punishment also are part of the fray. Many other links to other resources can be found here as well.
A thorughly educational experience awaits for those that travel here. World Trade, the U.N. Charter, World Currencies, The U.N. mission of Peace, and much more awaits the energized traveller. Includes daily journals of U.N conferences and so much more that it will amaze you. Students - go here. Teachers - go here. Everyone else - go here. Learn something of global policies and how they affect each and every one of us. Well worth the trip!
The United States Federal Gateway to over 10,000 different agencies and Federal Bureaus. This has got to be one of the hugest repositories of info available in the world. If it has to do with the U.S. govt - it's here.
Has links in English and Cyrillic to a plethora of resources. Currency exchange rates, an interactive Russian/English dictionary and links to other Russian web servers. There is also a form that lets you send faxes to Moscow addresses over the web. Getting better all the time. This web server is a joint venture between Russia and Sun MicroSystems. Can you say Unix in Russian? Nyet!
Information on India that ranges from academic, cultural, and politically related to business and financially related. This is mostly just a big discussion area for India and India related topics and interests.
This site is sponsered by the League of Women Voters and makes the voting process and the vagaries of politics easier to understand. This site also has info on how to run a voter registration drive and contains guidelines for grass-roots political support. The political processes of government are presented in such an easy to understand way that you'll be politically savvy in no time. Also has numerous links to other political and voter related issues/topics located on various web pages and ftp sites.
A photographic tour of the Foreign Affairs Department. Links to the department's Gopher where biographies and info on State Dept. officials, press releases, treaties and other Dept. publications are located. There are other links to division bureaus as well. Most of the lists and info databases are searchable. This is another great source of information for research work and for anyone interested in furthering their knowledge of how government works in the United States.
An extensive source of information devoted to the Native American culture. Has links to other sites of related info as well as a complete list of tribes and their histories and present day activities. Great resource!
Information on all branches (Judicial, Legislative and Executive) of our US government is here. The Legislative archive section holds the greatest amount of info including how Congress members voted and what bills were proposed and what bills were passed along with what each bill was about. Links to other gopher sites include the National Election Studies site and many other government related links as well. Political junkies will fall in love with this site and they'll be burrowing for a long time.
A decent gopher site that gives the user a general "briefing" on the goings on ay Capitol Hill. Includes other links and in itself has a lot of info. It is not merely to publicize the CQ publication but this site does a great deal towards educating its visitors and that is commendable netiquette.
Contains a huge archive of information including a C-Span viewer's guide. Also included is compilatins of public affairs programs like "Booknotes" and "Cynical Reviews". There are also many features like "This Week in the House of Representatives", "Inside Washington: Government Resource Center" and listings of all House and Senate members. A very informative place.
This is a new Library of Congress service (in the spirit of that great statesman Thomas Jefferson) that anyone can use to retrieve the text of congressional bills and resolutions. Legislative research projects will be a little easier for this site also has pointers to information and will contains search engines that let you search by bill numbers or keywords. A hyper-text version of "How Our Laws Are Made" will prove beneficial to the educational crowd and there is also a subject based index for easy retrieval of what you want. There is even numerous links to other web, ftp, and gopher sites including the House and Senate gophers. It doesn't get much better than this. If you need to find out about US government - start here. This is also a great educational resource as well.
It's amazing that web sites that one would think would be serviced by a site other than that located in the US are actually served up from sites and servers right here in the US. It's like someone saying that this is a genuine imported work of Chinese Art and on the bottom of the vase reads "Made in America". Just an odd little tidbit. In any case - right from the University of Pittsburgh, PA (US) comes a very good site that offers tons (and I mean *tons*) of information and links that deal primarily with Russian and Eastern European affairs. This is a gigantic resource that features economic, business, legal and financial info and all sorts of info that is even remotely related to any of these topics. What you won't find are cultural exhibits and tours as this page is strictly "business" and remains in focus and retains this focus throughout. An excellent resource for both business and for research work. Even has land use and geographical info on the eastern European region. You'll be completely amazed at how much info this site has and points to.
This page offers a primer to the war in Bosnia and a good collection of Maps that chart the Yugoslavian terrain. This is definitely not a "tourist" site and most of the information presented here is war related. The info here is mostly from a Bosnian Muslim perspective.
Back issues are available and the text and info offer a glimpse of the war effort and atrocities from a Bosnian Muslim viewpoint. Many of the articles are loud rants and finger-pointing and it's hard to discern real fact from over-blown fiction. However - this is still an informative publication if not for the accuracy of reporting then for the dire tone it exudes and it also lets people get a glimpse through the Bosnian Muslim perspective.
This site contains the full text of the agreements made between the Croats and the Muslims as well as also offering the text of United Nation's many resolutions that have been hammered out. War information is abundant along with various war related statistics. This site also manages to include a few beautiful pictures of the Croatian country and landmarks.
Not only is this an archive/repository of hundreds of Congressional docs but it contains numerous lists and links that have information pertaining to contacting Congressional members. Info such as contact numbers, phone, fax, voice, committee assignments, party platforms and rosters and more. Many documents and pointers that encompass party policy statements will have the political researcher and interested citizen happy to have this site available and listed here in BIGSURF. Another excellent web site.
This page was written by Capitol Hill staffers in order to inform the public taxpayers just who is in Congress serving them. A complete list of all Senator's and Representative's office locations, phone numbers and committee assignments are posted here along with their photos and email addresses. You can search member listings by name, state or political party and there is also an informative FAQ document. There's a map of the Wash. D.C. Metro and you can use the subway "navigator" to plan your travels while in Washington DC. If you need toknow all about your Congressman - here's the place to start your findings.
Rushisms abound here and everything you wanted to know (and more) about Rush Limbaugh is at this site. There's a Rush sound-byte collection a Rush Limbaugh FAQ and Rush's 14 Commandments of the Religious Left. What more could you ask for? (ahem...) Well there's radio station lists of his syndicated talk shows and a list of upcoming television appearances. The piece de resistance is a web form that lets you talk back to Rush as easy as the click of a button - an email or a fax (you choose) goes right out to Limbaugh. I've included this Rush page just to show that I am an equal opportunity net lister and not possesed of a narrow mind... (ahem)
All's fair in love, web and war and so soon after the Rush Limbaugh web page came into existence - so did the anti-Limbaugh page. This is a funny web page that has a satirical view of Rush's "35 Truths" and also has lots of Limbaugh jokes and one-liners. There are some serious rantings and writings but most are intended to poke fun at Rush. Who could argue? There is even a forms section where readers are invited to send in their own "Rush jokes and lies" to the page and more is planned. I wonder if a Democrat organized this page... ?
Want to know about all the world's disasters (except in the USA) - then here is the place to come visit and learn. Most reports contain photos as well as mortality rates, damage statistics, economic loss and foreign-aid totals. Disasters are listed either chronologically (the most recent tragedy is at the top of the list) or you can view by region or geographic area of the world. If you think *your* life is a mess - stop over here!
APRIL 22st, Tucson, Az, USA - Hundreds of Internet users across North America and the Globe responded within hours to Wednesday's terrorist bombing of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Individuals posted news updates, photos and emergency phone numbers electronically to the World Wide Web.
Live discussions of the disaster have been going on around the clock since word of the explosion first hit the Internet. One Internet user likened this distribution of emergency information in and out of the disaster stricken area to the efforts of amateur radio HAM operators in past disasters, such as the California earthquakes.
Similar efforts to provide important information were made following the recent earthquake in Kobe, Japan, but the disorganized nature of the Internet has made this valuable information hard for individuals to locate. Internet Direct, Inc., an Internet Access Provider with corporate offices in Arizona, has dedicated its resources to making disaster information available to all of the millions of Internet users around the world from one centralized location.
This new service, the Internet Disaster Information Network (IDIN) which is also being referred to as the DisasterNet, acts as a central clearinghouse and index for worldwide disaster-related information. The IDIN allows Internet users to access complete, detailed information from a single address on the World Wide Web.
"We wanted to create a way for people to easily access the available information surrounding events such as the recent bombing," said Mike March, President of Internet Direct. "We have dedicated a server and staff to centralizing this information. Now, instead of spending 12 frustrating hours trying to find information in an emergency, the click of a button is all that it takes for people to have complete access to helpful and necessary information."
Late Wednesday afternoon, Internet Direct made a request to InterNIC Registration Services in Herndon, Virginia, the organization controlling address registration for the global Internet, to obtain the name www.disaster.org for use as a publicly accessible, civic information server. At approximately 2.00am Thursday morning, the InterNIC granted this unusual request.
"Normally, it takes about four weeks to get registration approved. We felt this request was critical enough to approve the registration immediately," said Jean Gallagher of InterNIC Registration Services.
Since the granting of the request, the technical and design staffs have worked around the clock to create an entire World Wide Web site in under 24 hours. "Usually, we will work on a site for two to three weeks before releasing it to the public. In this case, the technical staff put together a server in about four hours, and our design team worked around the clock to develop the content for the IDIN site," said Jason Ayers, Head of Graphic Design for Internet Direct. "Everyone here is enthusiastic to be working to help create this public site for everyone. They have all volunteered their time and expertise to assist with IDIN."
Information that has already been made available includes the composite photo of bombing suspects released by the FBI, a list of fatalities and hospitalized survivors and their locations, phone numbers for Oklahoma City hospitals and relief organizations and addresses for charities accepting donations, and hundreds of other photographs, articles, eye-witness accounts and progress updates.
"We plan to continue and fully maintain the Internet Disaster Information Network site permanently," guaranteed William Fisher, Business Mananger of Internet Direct, Inc. "Unfortunately, this won't be the last time people need information quickly in times of great need. Internet Direct and the IDIN will be there to provide stability and support for people whenever and wherever a disaster may happen. This is a fantastic opportunity for all of us [at Internet Direct] to give back to the Internet community that is our business."
The www.disaster.net WEB site has received over 7,000 queries from around the world in its first 24 hours of operation. Right now, the requests are increasing by about tweny-five per cent each hour. "We expect to be receiving 8,000 to 10,000 requests an hour by tomorrow morning, as the information about the existence of the IDIN becomes available," reported Matthew Grossman, head of Operations for this effort and a lead designer for Internet Direct.
Internet Direct has pledged to keep this server up to date and online for this and all future disasters as a public service to the Internet Community.
This is a neat way to find out about earthquake info and where earthquakes are happening as it is displayed graphically on a world map. Links to other earthquake info-sites. Very well done and informative site and a fine way to use clickable image-maps to access information.
A global search utility for Canadian Government Information. Champlain is a WWW based tool for scanning dispersed all Canadian government databases for information using keywords. Champlain contains an index of most of the information contained in the Internet databases of over 50 Federal, Provincial and Municipal agencies - representing the entire Canadian government presence on the Internet. Champlain will perform searches on keywords and return the users with a hypertext list of documents most likely to be of interest. The list will have a hyper-link to the document on the database on which in resides, and indication of the document title, if any, and will display the matched line of text to help determine the exact context of the document.
I wasn't sure where to place this site listing - but it's governments that start wars and it takes soldiers to stop them. Unfortunately politicians don't have to hump with the soldiers and so the very ones who risk their lives and do their duty in brave fashion many times have post-war syndromes and need help and support and a place to talk with others who were caught up in the war. I won't even pretend to know the pressures and stress these brave men and women went through (and their families) but I'm happy to say that there is now a web site for Gulf War veterans and their families to go to and find information pertinent to the Gulf War. There are support groups here for both combatants directly involved in the war and their families that also suffered many sleepless nights. There are also many other links for veterans to check out and links to veteran services that are offered.
The biggest political party in Italy. A site full of info, photos, about the italian constitution, political members, usefull for students and researchers. Still in Italian but soon in the English translation too!
A complete listing of Canadian Govt pages are available at the above web sites. These sites will be continually updated and new sites and URLs will become listed when available. Specialty sites and web pages are shown below that pertain to Canadian Foreign Embassies and Trade Sites.
The Government of Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, has several of the Embassies and Consulates with Home Pages on the World Wide Web, they are:
This site covers Burmese liberation efforts and all sorts of human rights abuses occuring there today. Also contains a collection of photos and sound clips about the country's culture and topography. Reports on the cruelties of General Ne Win, a fearsome dictator, are also featured. Links to The Carter Center (mentioned elsewhere in BIGSURF), Amnesty Intl. and several Burmese activist groups are also here. Read, look and learn.
Literally tons of info here relating to African countries and culture. News reports, country information and political and cultural info abounds here. This gopher site is an excellent resource to learn more about Africa.
United Kingdom (England et. al.) governmental information is available through this web site. This site encompasses many services and functions within the U.K. Government including Parliament and House information.
The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia (Parliament of Australia for short) is now offering a home page from which a variety of Australian Parliamentary information may be accessed. The www pages are still under development, with a trial of weekly Hansard and related information accessible from this home page as well as separate access to Senate, House of Representatives and Parliamentary Library information.
This is a live audio feed from the Norwegian Parliament available through the MBONE. Audio clips of the proceedings are also available to the public.
This gopher site of the ACLU includes related literature, ACLU newsbriefs, publications and Congressional reports and Congressional efforts in which the ACLU is involved. The ACLU has also become involved with civil liberty in cyberspace and on the Internet specifically. This gopher site also has a complete history of the organization, a list of affiliate offices and guidelines on where and how to obtain help from the ACLU.
Listing of all available CIC brochures and info-pamphlets
A very complete collection of images of National Flags of world's countries and also includes flags pertaining to many other topics such as images of flags used for racing, signaling and semifore flags. If you need to find out about a flag or what a particular flag looks like - then here they are!
The conservatives on the loose on the web! Informative and well done sites with various links to many Republican and conservative topics and issues. GOP Primary information is abundant here as well as a direct fax link to Rush Limbaugh (hmmm...). All sorts of news and views abound and it seems as if this was created just before the Democrats got their web page going.
This site contains news, press releases and candidate's quotes all relating to the upcoming 1996 election. Info on straw polls, poll statistics and candidate ratings are here also. Many other included links are present that relate to the Democratic political structure and other governmental links are here also. A good site that contains a wealth of political information.
This site has sound and video clips and also has links to every member of Congress that maintains a home page on the web. Also includes info on lots of political agendas and other Democratic party information and resources.
Not to be outdone - the Libertarians have also set up web shop. They offer their own political insights and information. Info on their party platform and ideology is here as well. Includes the usual press releases, candidate reviews, party literature and other political paraphenalia.
Seems as if every political party now has some sort of presence on the web. This is the Socialist Party web site that contains related party info that includes party documents, policies, press releases, platform stances and other associated party literature on various issues and political topics.
You can email to any US Senator by using this format: email to: senator@name.senate.gov
In place of "name," insert the Senator's last name. For example: email to: senator@dole.senate.gov
You can send email to any US House Representative by using the format: email to: name@hr.house.gov
In place of "name" you must use the first initial and last name of the Representative. For example, if you were sending email to Rep. Kurt Weldon, you would send email to: kweldon@hr.house.gov
Not all Congressional members use or take advantage of this email service yet so you may or may not get a response from your email message.
All Senators can or may have FTP files for anon public access located at the following ftp address:
ftp.senate.gov:/member/state/name
In this ftp directory format all items are "lower-case" letters. Leave the "member" entry as it is but in place of the "state" use the 2 letter abbreviation for the state and in place of "name" use the senator's last name.
For example - if you wanted to see if Robert Dole has any ftp files for public access you would type in this anon ftp address:
ftp.senate.gov:/member/ks/dole
Hopefully this information will let you become more informed on how to contact your elected Congress person and have access to public files that each Senator can make available to the public via anon ftp access.
Contains information from non-partisan sources concerning groups devoted to human rights and human rights related issues. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and others are located here and each has its own directory.
The "Washington Weekly" is a serious weekly that reports accurately the various activities occurring within and without Washington corridors.
The "Washington Compost" is a satirical magazine that takes no prisoners and seems to effectively and humorously bash all political parties.
This gopher site offers all sorts of information for senior citizens in regards to health, government, legal and available services. Good site.
A site devoted to both policies and lobbying efforts of senior citizen special interest groups and organizations. Information related to this Senate committee's findings and reports are also available in full text.
This is a copy of the full text of the NHSA. The web site offers a table of contents to ease in navigation of the large document. This rather large and informative government document that is now available to the public on a grand scale (via WWW) should be read with those with interest in such matters of public health availability and public health services.
A site that is hard to place in any one particular section. This site is full of links and information yet includes views and counter-views all within one site. For instance, there are numerous links to pro-gun sites such as the link to NRA (National Rifle Association), yet there are other links to sites such as the ftp server for anti-gun control legislation. It would seem at first that this was a pro-gun and pro-militia page but on second look there are many countering links that offer a well rounded view of this politically and socially charged topic. A very good way to learn of both sides of this heated topic - lots of relevant info here.