Drake University Law School
Calendar News & Events Contacts Search Sitemap BlueView TWEN
Why Choose Drake? Admissions Academics Library Centers CLE Technology
Federal Resources

Federal Resources

Legislative

Code of Federal Regulations
All 50 code titles available online with full-text search capability.
Also search the List of CFR Sections Affected (LSA).

Congressional Documents
House Documents, Senate Documents, and Senate Treaty Documents from the 4th Congress and the 103 Congress to the present

Congressional Hearings
Search hearings from the 102nd Congress to the present.

Congressional Record: Daily edition and Bound edition
Search the Congressional Record: Daily from 1994 to the present, Bound from 1999 to present. (See also library's guide to finding Congressional debate)

Congressional Reports
Search House/Senate reports and Senate executive reports from the 104th Congress to the present.

Federal Register
Search the Federal Register from 1994 to the present.

LexisNexis Congressional (available on-campus only)
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from the Congressional Information Service.

Thomas
Web site created by the Library of Congress to provide access to federal legislative information.

U.S. Code
Searchable database of the general and permanent laws of the United States.

U.S. House of Representatives
Official web site for the United States House of Representatives.

U.S. Senate
Official web site for the United States Senate.


Judicial

Supreme Court of the United States
Official web site for the United States Supreme Court.

Supreme Court Decisions (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
Contains decisions from 1990 to the present. Also contains searchable database of pending cases, court calendar and some historical decisions.

Supreme Court Decisions (FindLaw)
Contains United States Supreme Court decisions from 1893 to the present.

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Official web site for the the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Emory)
Site contains a map of the Circuit Court of Appeals and links to the official web sites of each Court.

Federal District Courts
Site contains links to U.S. District Courts and Bankruptcy Courts.


Executive

White House
Official web site for the White House. Includes archive of historical documents, White House history, and links to other federal government web sites.

Presidential Executive Orders
Executive orders issued from 1826 to the present are available through the The American Presidency Project (Univ. of California--Santa Barbara). Orders from 1945-1989 are available from the National Archives. The National Archives also offers a disposition table for orders from 1937 to the present.

Compilation of Presidential Documents
Contains statements, messages, remarks and other Presidential materials from 1993 to the present.

A to Z list of U.S. government departments and agencies 

Administrative Decisions and Other Actions
The University of Virginia Library maintains these links to administrative decisions by agency and by subject.

Miscellaneous

USA.gov
The official U.S. gateway to all government information.

Federal Digital System (FDsys)
The replacement to GPO Access, the system "provides public access to Government information submitted by Congress and Federal agencies and preserved as technology changes"

GPO Access
Compilation of the official, searchable publication databases from the Government Printing Office.



Multiple Federal Government Database Search
Allows the user  to search multiple databases published by the Government Printing Office.