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- Consolidated legislation, organized by subject.
- Annual collection of all laws passed during a given session, from 1789 to the present. Contains treaties prior to 1945.
- Text of laws are added here as they are enacted (1995-). Good source for laws not yet integrated into the U.S. Code or Statutes at Large.
- Consolidation of regulations, organized by subject.

- Business, trade, and economic statistics.
- Yearly publication covering a wide range of current and recent statistics (1878-). Recommended as a starting point.
- Contains data from colonial times through the twentieth century.
- Gateway to labour and economic statistics.
Census
- (PDFs of the census print publications)
- (state and county level database)
- Replaces the long form of the decennial census, providing population figures on a more frequent basis.
- - Useful descriptive guide to ACS data.

- Reports and documents submitted to Congress from 1817-1980. Collection to be completed in 2009..
- U.S. federal publications since 1976, with links to online content.
- Full text of several congressional publications. Coverage years vary.
- Archives several government publications, mostly legal in nature.
- Full text congressional documents from the late 1980s to the present.
- Congressional documents and debates from 1774-1875.
(Library of Congress) - Access to pivotal government documents from 1763-1877.
- Declassified intelligence documents.
- Annual report on the state of the U.S. economy, with useful statistical tables. Includes all reports back to 1947.
- Publications of the RAND Corporation, sometimes commissioned by the government.

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