The Congressional Internet Caucus: http://www.netcaucus.org
Those in Congress who should have the most interest and knowledge of
the net.
To write a senator or representative you can go to the EFF
web page: http://www.eff.org/congress/ where you can generate e-mails directly or find out who is
your representative if you know your address and zip code.
Govbot The University of Massachusetts has a service which
lets you search many government data bases: http://ciir2.cs.umass.edu/Govbot.
This has a fairly sophisticated search engine and can be very helpful.
Changing the Conversation: A
National Plan to Improve Substance Abuse Treatment
The Center
for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA) has launched this project in an effort to
improve accessibility and quality of substance abuse treatment services
nationwide. This site provides a comprehensive analysis of five specific
substance abuse and addiction-related areas related to: funding for and access
to service delivery systems, public attitudes and beliefs, and best practices
and treatment methods.
Federal
Web Location
This site
contains links to hundreds of U.S. government web sites.
Fedworld
Fedworld's
goal is be the one-stop location for people to locate, order, and obtain US
government information. It has extensive links to other sites that generate or
distribute information for the government.
FindLaw
This site
can help locate Supreme Court decisions, federal laws, state laws,
international laws, and lawyers.
General Accounting Office
The
General Accounting Office is the investigative arm of Congress. Charged with
examining matters relating to the receipt and disbursement of public funds, GAO
performs audits and evaluations of Government programs and activities.
The Government Printing Office
The GPO
online system is a great mechanism for searching for full-text documents
online. Click on the sources you want to search (General Accounting Office
(GAO), Congressional Record, U.S. Code, etc.), select the maximum number of
documents you want to receive, and type in the search term. You can then
hypertext to the full-text of the retrieved documents.
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol
and Drug Information
This site
of the NCADIcontains the full-text of publications and studies such as the Drug
Abuse Warning Network
(DAWN), National Drug Abuse Treatment Users Survey (NDATUS), the
National
Household Survey on Drug Abuse, etc. This site also has numerous links to other government
sites including the Center for Substance Abuse Research
(CESAR), which contains statistics
and the findings of current research projects around the country.
National Criminal Justice
Reference Service Abstracts Database
This is an excellent site, which includes
thousands of U.S. government documents in full-text. It is maintained by the
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
(NCJRS) which is the
clearinghouse for the National Institute of Justice
(NIJ), the Office of
National Drug Control Policy
(ONDCP), the Bureau of
Justice Statistics
(BJS) and others.
The site includes various full-text government documents, and includes a
mechanis to search the site by keyword.
National Library of Medicine
This site
provides free access the NLM's Medline database. "Medline contains
bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and
author abstracts from over 3,800 biomedical journals published in the United
States and 70 foreign countries during the current four years. The Loansome Doc
feature allows you to place an order electronically for the full-text of
articles you select from the references retrieved in your searches...Delivery
is made available by a medical library in your region with which you set up an
agreement for this service; a local charge may apply."
Thomas
...as in
Thomas Jefferson, has the full-text of Senate and House bills. The bills are searchable
online by key words, name of Congressman, or bill number. The site also lists
ways to get in touch with Congressmen.
Transactional Records Access
Clearinghouse
Alhtough
not a government agency itself, The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
(TRAC) is a "data gathering, data research and data distribution
organization associated with Syracuse University. The purpose of TRAC is to
provide the American people -- and institutions of oversight such as Congress,
news organizations, public interest groups, businesses, scholars and lawyers --
with comprehensive information about the activities of federal enforcement and
regulatory agencies, and the communities in which they take place."
Americans United
for the Separation of Church and State
This
organization founded in 1947 has promoted the principle of church-state
separation as an essential constitutional guarantee of religious liberty.
Listings of Chapters, chapter news, events calendar and press releases are just
some of the many features on this site.
Gay Straight Civil Rights
GSCR
is an educational project for the gay and straight community, connecting people
to rights groups fighting for equality based on sexual orientation.
This site provides resources to gays,
lesbians, bisexuals and anyone else who may find the information
useful. Please note that not all businesses, organizations or
individuals listed on this site are declared to be gay owned,
operated, employed or an employee of a gay, lesbian or bisexual.
Although this site is suitable for all general audiences, it is
advised to take caution when going to links that are outside of
GayCityUSA's Web Site.
Straight, Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual... 
