Finding Legislation, Data, & Statistics

Find contact information for U.S. federal government departments and agencies including websites, emails, phone numbers, addresses, and more.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) offers practical, research-based tools and other resources to help a variety of health care organizations, providers and others make care safer in all health care settings.

govinfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch. govinfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public.

Watch this video for directions on how to explore bills on the congress.gov website.

This is the official site of the United States Supreme Court; keyword searching is enabled to let you look through cases, rulings, and supplementary materials.

Publishes the status of federal legislation, information about representatives and senators in Congress including voting records, and original research on legislation and congressional oversight & investigations.

A listing of all state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions.

Lists all agencies and departments, including Jobs & Family Services, Domestic Violence, Family Council, Health, Mental Health & Addiction Recovery, and more.

LegiScan provides the nation's first impartial real-time legislative tracking service designed for both public citizens and government affairs professionals across all sectors in organizations large and small.

Find analysis and advocacy from all perspectives on US national public policy. Courtesy of University of Oregon Libraries.

Congressional Research Service reports are the best way for anyone to quickly get up to speed on major political issues without having to worry about spin — from the same source Congress uses.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO examines how taxpayer dollars are spent and provides Congress and federal agencies with objective, reliable information to help the government save money and work more efficiently.

The Open Think Tank Directory captures information about more than 2700 think tanks from around the globe.

PolicyArchive is a digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. It collects and disseminates summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research.

Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and public engagement organization.