ResearchBuzz: Government-US Archives

The GPO now has the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/hd108-222/. According to an , it's the first update since 1989 and the first time it's been available online. Unfortunately, while the information is pretty fascinating,...

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Meta-search engine Vivisimo ( http://www.vivisimo.com ) has added a Gov tab to its clustered search engine, Clusty ( http://www.clusty.com ). The new Gov search is available at http://gov.clusty.com/ . According to the Web site here's what Clusty searches: " It...

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Propburgers with proponionrings to Gary Price for the pointer to Vivisimo's new clustering of the US Federal Budget, at http://search.vivisimo.com/demos/budget05. A search for dancing found one result, a paragraph about the NEA....

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Here's a nice one-pager; a table of available legislative proceedings via television or the Internet. This site says " As of February 2004, live proceedings were available from 45 states. Internet audio or video feeds are available from 74 of...

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The National Governors Association has announced a new site providing information on the governors of the United States. The site contains information on both current and historical governors and is available at http://www.nga.org/governors/1,1169,C_SEARCH_GO%20V,00.html . The front page of the site...

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If you're looking for historical information on postmasters and post offices, you find find it -- surprisingly enough --the US Postal Service Site. The Postmaster Finder, at http://www.usps.com/postmasterfinder/, offers ways to search for both postmasters and post offices. This page...

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Several different agencies have gotten together to launch a new Web site called Our Documents ( http://www.ourdocuments.gov ). This site, designed for teachers and students, has as its core 100 milestone documents drawn from the National Archives and Records Administration...

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The National Technical Information Services sponsors this site providing links to government resources for users in the science and engineering industries at http://www.scitechresources.gov/ . I couldn't get this site to work on Opera at all, but it works just fine...

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SRC, LLC has established a new Web site containing data from the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal, a pre-census test that helped to create the census. This site makes it possible for interested parties to view the kind of data that...

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Americans, if you're wondering how much you'll be pulling from the Social Security Administration when you retire, check out the benefit calculators at http://www.ssa.gov/retire/ . The first one is real simple; enter the age you'll be by the end of...

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