Federal, State, and Local Government and Regulatory Agencies

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Congressional Email Directory
Pick your state from the list or search for your favorite Congressperson with the form. As long as your browser preferences are set so you can use a mailto , just click on the email addresses of your Congress folks and type away. These Congress types like to know that they are hearing from their constituents, so they like it if you include your snail mail address. You can also view their home pages by clicking on their names. Not everyone on Capitol Hill has email yet. If your elected officials don't have email, send them snail mail DEMANDING that they get email.

FBI
Describes the organization, mission, and structure of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Visit the FBI frequently asked questions file, the FBI's current "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives", information about ongoing large scale investigations, online access to issues of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, and other information, including employment opportunities with the FBI.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Provides online access to selected publications from the FDIC Corporate Library; a link to its gopher that contains a weekly updated database of data on FDIC insured institutions; information on acquiring FDIC assets and other information; and links to its Division of Research and statistics home page.
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
The FFIEC web site is an excellent web site. It provides a detail review describing the editorial and visual merits. Information services about banking, financial, and organization information is available.
 

Federal Information Center
Directs the user to sources of telephone based assistance to answer questions about the United States federal government. Provides links to Web servers with answers to frequently asked questions.

Federal Reserve System's National Information Center of Banking Information
The National Information Center (NIC) provides comprehensive information on banks and other institutions for which the Federal Reserve has a supervisory, regulatory, or research interest including both domestic and foreign banking organizations operating in the U.S. The NIC includes the organizational structure of financial institutions and financial information for some of those institutions. Historical information is available on the structure of all the institutions. Financial information is available for selected time periods.

Federal Web Locator
A ultimate source for federal government information. Offers "Federal Quick Jumps" for users to go directly to a specific federal agency area. Other menus arrange federal Web servers by the branches on the federal government and offer links to information on cabinet departments within the executive branch. Additional menus provide access to government corporations, federal independent establishments, quasi official agencies, selected multilateral organizations and other "federally related sites." The service encompasses a wide range of federal government WWW servers.

FedNet
Gives you the day's schedule of Congressional hearings and events, then lets you go straight to the action, such as it is, using Real Audio for a live sound feed. Listen to committee hearings, interviews with the politicians, or many of the sound bites in the archives.

FEDSTATS
Takes advantage of Internet technology to navigate publicly available statistics from more than 70 Federal agencies. Information can be searched through: an A to Z index with 275 categories, a keyword search capability that searches agency web sites linked to FEDSTATS, "fast facts" linkage to frequently requested tables from the Statistical Abstract, as well as direct links to agency contacts, news releases, and other navigational and organizational aids.

FedWorld Information Network
A comprehensive central access point for locating and acquiring government information. Includes links to a FedWorld FTP Site with more than 10,000 files; a FedWorld Telenet site; FedWorld freebies; an arrangement of U.S. federal government information servers by subject; and FedWorld contact information.

Government Information Sharing Project
Federal data on population, housing, agriculture, economics, and employment.

Government Information Xchange
Federal Yellow Pages with a index of printable forms on useful topics including copyrights, social security, student aid, and taxes.

Infomine
Listing of links to state and federal agencies and documents. Provide brief explanations of the information you might find on the site before visiting it. Query by keyword, title, and subject.

National Association of Securities Dealers Regulation, Inc.
NASDR regulates the NASDAQ stock market and oversees the conduct of its member brokers. On this site you can file a complaint if you feel that you have been defrauded or treated unfairly by a broker. You also can check the record of brokers for prior disciplinary history.

The National Fraud Information Center
The NFIC was originally established in 1992 by the National Consumers League, the oldest nonprofit consumer organization in the United States, to fight the growing menace of telemarketing fraud by improving prevention and enforcement. The NFIC is the only nationwide toll free hotline for consumers to get advice about telephone solicitations and report possible telemarketing fraud to law enforcement agencies.

The National Voting Rights Institute
A non-profit legal and public education organization dedicated to securing the rights of all voters, regardless of economic status, to full and equal participation in our electoral process.

National Credit Union AdministrationNew!
The National Credit Union Administration is an independent federal agency that supervises and insures 6,981 federal credit unions and insures 4,257 state chartered credit unions. It is entirely funded by credit unions and receives no tax dollars.

Ohio Department of Commerce
Provides information on financial institutions, the state fire marshal, industrial compliance, real estate, securities, and unclaimed funds within Ohio.

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
This government agency protects the retirement incomes of approximately 42 million American workers in more than 44,000 defined benefit pension plans.

Presidential Speeches and Writings

SEC EDGAR Database
An official archive of SEC filings for selected US publicly traded companies.

Small Business Administration
A site full of information about starting, financing, or expanding a small business. Advice for developing a business plan; regional small business statistics; a directory to SBA resources and offices in your area; and most important information on SBA's loan programs.

Social Security Death Index
A freely accessible database of the Social Security Administration records of deceased individuals.  Handy tool for audits of organization retirees.

STAT-USA Government Info
Provided by the Commerce Department, this site aggregates and distributes data from 50 federal agencies. Includes trade statistics, overseas contracts, market research reports, daily economic releases. press briefings, and procurement information. Site cost $$$ but you can try part of the site for free

State of the Union Addresses--Past and Present

US Government Information Sources
More than 900 links making it easier to find agencies. The sections are broken down into executive departments, branches, independent agencies, and other government resources.

Federal Government Financial Regulatory Agencies New!

  • Department of the Treasury
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
  • Federal Financial Insitutions Examination Council
  • Federal Reserve Board
  • Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
  • Internal Revenue Service
  • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
  • Office of the Thrift Supervision

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    Federal Reserve Banks

    Information on the Federal Reserve System. Links to other Federal Reserve System sites, US Government sites, sites with government information, banking information, economic sites, and international sites.
  • Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
  • Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
  • Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

  • US Government Agencies and Other Government Sites

  • Library of Congress-Explore the Internet
  • Government Information Locator
  • The White House
  • THOMAS Legislative Information
  • Department of Treasury
  • Social Security Administration
  • Internal Revenue Service
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics

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    US Government Documents
  • GPO Gate
  • Economic Report of the President
  • US Budget Information
  • North America Free Trade Agreement

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    US Securities and Exchange Commission
    The SEC is an independent, nonpartisan, quasi judicial regulatory agency with responsibility for administering the federal securities laws. The site offers current rule making information, enforcement actions information, small business information, the EDGAR Database, Employment opportunities, annual reports, and investor assistance and complaints help.

    Last Updated on: December 4, 2002.