Government
U.S. Government
Sites
Congress
California Sites
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Topics Covered: Bills and Statutes, Economics,
Government Agencies, Law and Legislation, Media
and Politics
General
CityLink 2000
With the Internet version of CityLink, it is possible
to search state and federal legislation.
CNN/Time
Allstar Politics
National
Journal
National Journal's
Cloakroom
U.S. Government Sites
Agricultural
Labor Affairs Coordinator
Bureau of the
Census
news and information from the U.S. Bureau of the
Census.
Bureau of Economic
Analysis (BEA)
Bureau
of International Labor Affairs (ILAB)
Bureau of Labor
Statistics
Principal fact-finding agency for FederalGovernment;
field of labor economics and statistics; disseminates
economic and statistical data to American public,
Federal Agencies, business and labor. Also Statistical
data, publications and research papers are all
available here.
Bureau
of Labor Statistics Data
Compilation of BLS Data; Most Requested Series;
Selected Access; News Releases; Series Report,
and Economy at a Glance; Employment and Unemployment
Statistics.
Center for
the Study of Intelligence
Code
of Federal Regulations
Code of federal regulations ---- Searchable.
Department
of State Home Page Employment
Standards Administration (ESA)
Employment and
Training Administration (ETA)
Library of Congress
Home Page
Mine Safety and
Health Administration
National Center
for Health Statistics (NCHS)
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
Office of Personnel
Management (OPM)
Office of
Policy
U.S. Social Security Administration
Office
of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO)
Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation
Pension
and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA)
Working
Partners for an Alcohol- and Drug-Free Workplace
Congress
- House of Representatives
WWW Services
Students needing information on the legislative
process for school could not find a better source.
All the committees, Legislations, and of course,
the congressional members are accesible here.
You can search alphabetically by name or state.
However, only postal or "snail-mail" addresses
are provided. you can also get to the house
e-mail gopher, but it looks like an antique.
- The U.S.
Senate WWW Server
This is a lot like the House of Representative's
server legislatively, but it offers more. The
"gallery" link allows you to pursue the senate
art gallery and see photos of all the senators.
even more impressive is the virtual tour of
the halls of the congress.
Congressional
Contact Information.
Look up your reps' phone number, send them an e-mail
message, or visit their Web pages
Congressional
Information Service.
CIS is an international publisher of reference,
research, and current awareness information products
and services.
Congressional
Quarterly
Department
of Agriculture
You might be surprised by some of the offices under
the auspices of the USDA, including the Forestry
Service and the Department of Natural Resources.
You can even link to the USDA's own Gradulate School.
Department of Commerce
--D.O.C HomePage
Department
of Commerce: Stat-USA
The D.O.C. calls this "the world's largest resources
of trade, business and economic information." It's
a great place for research with statistical data
on foreign and domestic economy and a daily economic
report. You can also order Commerce publications.
Department of Education
Find out about grants, contracts, and any of the
Secretary's initiatives like goals 2000; School-to-Work;
Direct loans; Safe, Disciplined, and Drug-free Schools;
and the individuals with Disability Education Act
(IDEA).
Department
of Health and Human Services
This site has access to information on all HHS programs,
including the National Institude of Health, the
Food and Drug Administration, and Administration
on Aging. Consider this site a terrific resourse
for informationabout the laws and regulations affecting
people with disabilities.
Center for
Substance Abuse Prevention's Division of Workplace
Programs
The Workplace Managed Care Substance Abuse Prevention
and Early Intervention Project is designed to
investigate which managed care substance abuse
prevention and early intervention programs implemented
in the workplace are effective in reducing the
incidence and prevalence of substance abuse, and
to disseminate the findings from these investigations.
Department of
Housing and Urban Development
Community planning agencies can use this site to
download information and access fair housing laws.
Department of Justice
Attorney General Janet Reno's Justice Department
is accessible here. View press releases and link
up with the Federal Bureadu of Investigation, the
Drug Enforcement Administration. or any of the other
Justice divisions.
Department
of Labor
The DOL has information on labor law and trends.
There is informaton here on grants and government
labor contracts and, if you are searching for a
job, check out America's Job Bank. (Family
Medical Leave Act)
Department
of Labor Gopher
Department
of Transportation
Check out the latest from the Federal Aviation Administration,
the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal
Railroad Administration, the National Highway traffic
Safety Administration, and more. (DOT Drug Testing)
Division of State
Architect
EDGAR:
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Equal Employment
Opportunity Commision
Includes the text of each statute enforced by EEOC
with a list of publications and required posters.
Employment
Statistics
Contains numerous statistical programs for analyzing
employment data for discrimination.
Federal
Election Commission
Find out about the laws and rules regulations of
Finance and contributions. You can also download
the national mail-in voter registration form.
A Federal
Employee's Survival Guide
The
Federal Justice Center
The FJC site is extensive. Here you can get information
on entire system, including the Supreme Court. One
unique feature is the telephone directory with office
and fax numbers for every section of the center,
including the directors office. You can also order
from an extensive catalog of FJC publications.
GPO
--- Federal Register
Federal Register (1991-Present) and other GPO docs.
FedWorld
Information Network
(Links to U.S. Government information servers and
other government information.)
FLITE
U.S. Supreme Court Decisions (1937-1975)
The Government
Printing Office
The
Library of Congress Home Page
This site has links to all the congressional sites
and other government sites. The National Digital
Liberary, Library Reading Rooms , and access to
copyright laws and information make this a useful
site allowing researchers to access the library
services.
Occupational
Safety and Health Administration
(Publications, fact sheets, statistics, etc. put
out by the Administration are available on this
site.)
OshaData
(Oshadata maintains a Web information service that
compiles OSHA violation records for every employer
inspected by the government. Free quarterly reports
and several reference documents are also available.)
President's Committee
on Employment of People with Disabilities
Find out About the President's Committee, learn
What's New, and get information on Job Accommodation
Network (JAN). See the 1997 Educational Kit which
has been constructed to provide you with materials
to help advance the employment of people with disabilities
throughout the year.
Social
Security On Line
All SSA questions can be answered here. There is
a special feedback Section for mailing complaints
and problems regarding program benefits. There is
a great deal of statistical data here and there
are explanations of benefits and programs in Spanish.
STAT-USA
Business and Economic information produced by U.S.
Department of Commerce; crucial, timely information
from over 50 Federal agencies distributed from this
central source.
Thomas:
The U.S. Congress
Named after Thomas Jefferson, this site allows researchers
to annalyze legislation in the making and the voting
records of the bills. It's a good use of the Library
of Congress' resources. This site is easy to get
arround in and you can download the consitution.
USA JOBS -
Office of Personnel Management Employment Information
US Census
Bureau--the Official Statistics
State and Local government structure, Finance Data,
State Tax collections, Public Employment, Payroll.
U.S.
Code
Full U.S. Code ---- Seachable.
U.S.
Congress -- Economic Indicators
Browse the 1998 and 1999 Economic Indicators
U.S.
Court of appeal for 9th Circuit
The Ninth Circuit is headquarted in San Francisco.
U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals
U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals Opinions
Search many of the court of appeals opinion.
U.S.
Supreme Court
The University of California's, GPO Gate
GPO Gate is a World Wide Web interface to the Government
Printing Office's suite of databases known as GPO
Access..
White
House
California Sites
Association
of Bay Area Governments, Oakland
California
2000 - Quick Facts about the State
California
Bills
Full text of bills, resplutions, and constitutional
amendments, including status, history, votes,
analyses, and veto Messages.
California
Codes
Organized by Code subject.
California Department
of Corporations, Sacramento
California Department
of Finance, Sacramento
California Department
of Forestry & Fire Protection
The California
Department of Industrial Relations
(A fast-growing site with interesting statistical
information.)
California Department
of Personnel Administration
California Department
of Transportation
California
Department of Water Resources
California
Electronic Government Information
California
Employment Law Monitor
This biweekly newsletter is written by the law
firm of Littler Mendelson and Published by M.
Lee Smith Publishers in Brentwood, Tenn.
California
Energy Commission
The
California Health Policy and Data Advisory Commission
The California Home
Page
California Housing
Finance Agency, Sacramento
California
Judicial Branch
California Law
library
- California Codes
California statues organized by subject alphabetically.
- California Legislative Information
A reference system that can be used to find
state bills, California laws, the state constitution,
or legislative rules.
- California State Government Network
The most robust but often slow reference tool
to state government materials on the internet.
- California State Senate
Follow the action of bills pending in the state
senate, or contact your local senator's offfice.
- California State Assembly
Follow the action of bills pending in the state
senate, or contact your local assemblyperson's
offfice.
- Public Utilities Commission
Follow the actions and issues confronting the
Public Utilities commission, including tracking
the Commission's agenda.
California Law
Revision Commission, Palo Alto
California
Legislative Analyst's Office
California
Legislative Counsel's Official Legislative WWW Site
Features a schedule of legislative activities, full
hypertext searching of bills, laws, and the state
constitution.
California
National Guard, Sacramento
California
Postsecondary Education Commission, Planning agency,
Sacramento
California
Public Employees' Retirement System
California
Secretary of State
California
State Assembly
California
State Auditor
California
State Association of Counties
California
State Bar
General information about the Bar. Contains California
Rules of Professional Conduct, State Bar Act, related
Rules of Court, and MCLE rules and regulations.
California State
Board of Equalization
California
State Controller
California
State Government Network (CSGNet)
California
State Government, Sacramento
California
State Lands Commission
California
State Senate
California
State Treasurer
California
Trade and Commerce Agency, Sacramento
California
Water Page
Department of Water Resources and Office of Water
Education
Census
Bureau
This has to be one of the most expensive site in
the Net. You can get data maps of every county and
major cities in the nation. Ther is so much data
available through this site that you just have to
go there. If you need population information, they've
got it.
Superintendent
of Public Instruction: Department of Education
Snow Survey
State
of California Judicial Branch
Links to California courts with Web sites.
State Information
(50 States)
Links to Web sites of all 50 states -- coverage
of law varies.
The
State of California Judicial Branch
Legal Resources
General
All Law Home
Page
contains thousands of general interest and legal
links on the Web and features a powerful search
engine for Federal and state law as well as one
for general resources. Looking for a law school?
Or a court decision? Well, this site should help
you get there.
The American Civil
Liberties Union Freedom Network
(The ACLU's web site offers a thorough guide to
its many initiatives, workplace rights among them.)
Cornell
University Legal Information Institute
(A website with links to all kinds of legal information.)
Counsel Connect
Web
Updated daily, This site provides links to current
legal topics and updates on high profile cases.
Click on the law links and access law libraries
and court decisions. Use Lawyers search to obtain
Quick Reguests for Proposals.
Employee
Relations Web Picks
(A large collection of links related to labor
law.)
Legal
Resources
U.S. Laws and Legislation
Corporate
Screening Services A national provider of
employment background investigations and investigative
business reports. Economics
Expert witnesses for litigation: identifying economic
issues, locating the best experts, monitoring
experts' work and bills, cross-examining adverse
economic experts, defending the opinions of your
economic experts in deposition and at trial. Expert
Witness(es) health care fraud & abuse, HMO,
MCO, EMTALA, - medical malpractice case review,
testimony, litigation support services for attorneys,
physicians and insurance carriers. Legal
Resources on the Internet - USC Law School
and Law Library Pine
Tree Legal Assistance - Non-profit corporation
providing legal assistance to people in the State
of Maine CALLaw
Includes U.S. Supreme Court Opinions, Opinions
from all eleven circuits, The code of federal
Regulations, the federal register, and Legi-slate
for researching all bills introduced in the congress
since 1993.
U.S.
Code
Full U.S. Code ---- Searchable.
Code
of Federal Regulations
Code of federal regulations ---- Searchable.
Department of Commerce
Works and encourages faster economic growth and
the creation of new jobs in business communities.
Federal Judiciary
A clearinghouse for information from and about
the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.
Findlaw
Federal Register (1991-Present) and other GPO docs.
Foreign
Policy in Focus
Foreign Policy in Focus advocates for a new global
affairs agenda for the U.S. Web offerings include
a comprehensive agenda on global affairs, briefing
papers with the latest research and analysis on
current foreign policy debates, and special reports
on new issues and controversy concerning U.S. policy.
GPO
--- Federal Register
(Findlaw, sponsored in part by Stanford, is a rapidly
growing collection of indexes to legal information.
It also includes a searchable full text database
of law journals on the Internet.)
Labor
& Employment Law Group
(A free service of Ross Runkel Labor Law Page)
Lawgic
This Firm offers CD-ROM guides to preparing and
employee handbook, hiring independent contractors
and drafting employment and termination agreements.
The guides include both California and Federal Law.
National Labor Relations
Board
West
Publishing
(A provider of legal information in various forms.)
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