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• GPO Access: full text of bills from the 103rd and subsequent Congresses, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, and other government publications.
• Federal Agency Internet Sites: searchable list of federal agency web sites.
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• Catalog of United States Government Publications: search the index to government publications since 1994.
• Migrating Government Publications (Univ. of Memphis): Provides access to the electronic version of government publications formerly or also issued in print.

• FEDSTATS: Statistics from over 70 federal agencies.
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• Lexis-Nexis Congressional : Includes information by and about Congress including: indexing of hearings from 1789 forward, full text of bills from 1989 forward, laws, legislative tracking, and much more.
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• Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications (Univ. of Memphis)
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