Political Science: American Government

Washington State's official homepage

Links to laws and rules for the Washington State Legislature including the Revised Code of Washington, Washington Administrative Code, and the State Constitution.

Find out what the Legislature has been up to! Enactments of the Legislature are organized by year.

TVW was founded in 1993 and went on air in 1995 offering unedited coverage of Washington state government, politics and public policy.

A collection of links to a variety of state agency databases, organized by area/topic

Search case records by name, number, or court date.

Quick links to frequently requested Washington State documents.

Find lots of cool data that the DOH has gathered!

"The Washington State Digital Archives is the nation's first archives dedicated specifically to the preservation of electronic records from both State and Local agencies that have permanent legal, fiscal or historical value."

Site for legislation (including access to bills, resolutions, laws, and the Congressional
Record), member profiles, information on the legislative process, and a Legislative Glossary.

Provides free online access to official Federal Government publications.

"The finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available. "

Provides information on the Branches of Government and an A-Z Index of Government Agencies.

"Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents ("the world's largest nongovernmental collection" according to the Los Angeles Times), leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, global advocate of open government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets."

An unofficial edition of the Federal Register Presented in a “web journal” format. Search or browse full text or browse by agency in the Federal Register from 1994 forward.

Docket sheets, full text of opinions, oral argument transcripts and audio files, information on briefs, and information on the Supreme Court and Justices

1760 to current. HTML format. Browse by date or court. Search full-text. Field search for party name, docket number, or citation.

Source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.

A page on the C-SPAN website devoted to impeachment coverage. You can watch house and senate sessions live or at your leisure.

Two chapters from "Student's Guide to Congress" detailing the history and rules of impeachment in the United States.

"DPLA is proud to release this preliminary version of The Impeachment Papers: A Compendium of Documents Related to the Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump and The Report by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Russian Active Measure Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election. These add to the work we started with our award-winning ebook version of the Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election, i.e. The Mueller Report."