New from the U.S. Government

U.S. House of Representatives.
Available online
Contains profiles of African American senators, congressmen, and delegates, as well as historical essays, collections of historical data, and more.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our site, including here.

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U.S. Census Bureau.
The latest editions of two annually-published statistical collections help to explain where Federal Government spending went in 2007:
The Consolidated Federal Funds Report "provides a broad overview of how and where the federal government distributes funds. Statistics are broken out by federal department and agency, as well as by state, county and subcounty area."
Federal Aid to States "contains data on federal grants to state and local governments."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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U.S. Congressional Budget Office.
Available online.
"CBO has just issued its analysis of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, as released tonight by the House Committee on Financial Services. Among other provisions, the legislation would create a Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP)."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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U.S. Congressional Research Service.
Available online.
Brief overview of recent Federal interventions in financial markets. "These interventions have prompted questions regarding the taxpayer costs and the sources of funding. The sources of funding are relatively straightforward, the Federal Reserve (Fed) and the U.S. Treasury. The costs, however, are difficult to quantify at this stage."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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U.S. State Department.
Available online.
Annual report to Congress provides "detailed information with respect to matters involving international religious freedom. It includes individual country chapters on the status of religious freedom worldwide."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Available online.
Searchable database of over 4,000 farmers markets in the U.S.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Available online.
"Exploring how the release of new economic data affects asset prices in the stock, bond, and foreign exchange markets, the authors find that only a few announcements — the nonfarm payroll numbers, the GDP advance release, and a private sector manufacturing report — generate price responses that are economically significant and measurably persistent."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Available online.
A 289-page "compilation of interviews and other public statements issued by Usama bin Laden between 1994 and 2004," as translated by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service.
A link to more recent materials will be maintained on this library Web page.

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U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Available online.
Annual "statistical compilation of offense and arrest data as reported by law enforcement agencies throughout the nation."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Available online.
Congressional committee hearing.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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U.S. Census Bureau.
Available online.
Surveys of over 50,000 households result in a report that "provides estimates of cumulative
fertility, completed fertility, and current fertility—including nonmarital births; births in the last year by cohabitation status, citizenship status, and labor force status; and geographic differences in fertility."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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U.S. Congressional Research Service.
Available online.
Congress has considered creating a journalists’ privilege for federal proceedings, and bills to adopt a journalists’ privilege have been introduced in the 109th and 110th Congresses, in both the House and the Senate. These bills generally would provide for a more narrow privilege than the privileges provided by state laws.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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Researchers at Washington and Lee now have online access to the complete run of the Congressional Record and its predecessors, which together provide a day-by-day account of over 200 years of activities, speeches, and documents in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.

Coverage begins with 1789 and continues into the current year.

There are several different online resources involved, some of them freely available on the Web and some subscription services accessible only to current members of the W&L community. The online service you use will be determined by the date(s) of coverage you want.

For links and explanations, start with this page in our Web site.

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