The Washington Post hosts a free U.S. Congress Votes Database, which includes every vote in the United States Congress since the 102nd Congress (1991). The database allows you to browse votes in a variety of ways — both in aggregate and for individual members of Congress. It also includes recent financial disclosure statements for individual… Continue reading →

The State Department has begun publishing the Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS) on its website. At this time, only treaties from the years 1996 through 1998 are available, but the agency plans to continue updating the site. The treaties are available in pdf. In addition to the TIAS series, all international agreements (other… Continue reading →

Looking for bad news? The 2009 edition of the Economic Report of the President is available on GPO Access. The report provides an overview of the United States’ economic progress and includes numerous statistical tables on national income and expenditure, population, employment, wages, productivity, production, business activity, prices, money stock, credit, government finance, corporate profits… Continue reading →