Useful Web Links in the US

The White Hose, Washington, DC

Governmental

• First Gov The US Government’s Official Web Portal www.firstgov.gov

• The White House www.whitehouse.gov

• Office of the Vice-President www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident

• The US Supreme Court www.supremecourtus.gov/

• The US Senate www.senate.gov

• The US House of Representatives www.house.gov

Departments and Key Offices

• Department of State www.state.gov

• Department of Energy www.energy.gov

• Department of Justice www.justice.gov

• Department of Labor www.dol.gov

• Department of Commerce www.doc.gov

• Department of Housing & Urban Development www.hud.gov

• Department of Transportation www.dot.gov

• Department of Interior www.doi.gov

• Department of Education www.ed.gov

• Department of Veterans Affairs www.va.gov

• Department of Homeland Security www.dhs.gov

• Department of Defense www.defenselink.mil

• Department of Treasury www.ustreas.gov

• Department of Health & Human Services www.hhs.gov

• Department of Agriculture www.usda.gov

• Environmental Protection Agency www.epa.go

• United States Trade Representative www.ustr.gov

• Office of National Drug Control Policy www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov

Others

• U.S. Government Printing Office www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs

• Library of Congress www.loc.gov

Organizations and Think Tanks

• American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research www.aei.org

• Brookings Institution www.brook.edu

• The Carter Center www.cartercenter.org

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace www.ceip.org

• Cato Institute www.cato.org

• Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) www.csis.org

• Center of International Studies (CIS), Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University www.wws.princeton.edu/~cis

• Council for Excellence in Government www.excelgov.org

• Council on Foreign Relations www.cfr.org

• Electronic Frontier Foundation www.eff.org 

• Electronic Privacy Information Center www.epic.org 

• Freedom House www.freedomhouse.org/index.htm

• Heritage Foundation www.heritage.org

• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace

• Stanford University www-hoover.stanford.edu

• Hudson Institute http://www.hudson.org

• Foreign Policy Institute (FPI) Johns Hopkins University www.sais-jhu.edu/centers/fpi/index.html

• United States Institute of Peace www.usip.org

• World Resources Institute www.wri.org

• Worldwatch Institute www.worldwatch.org

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Travel to the United States

General Information

• United States of America Travel Guide www.virtualtourist.com/vt/4f8

• United States Travel www.travelnotes.org/NorthAmerica

Washington, DC (DC)

• House of Representatives Washington, DC Tourist Information www.house.gov/house/tour_dc.html

• Washington, DC Pages www.dcpages.ari.net

Maryland (MD)

• Official Web Site of Maryland Tourism www.mdisfun.org

Virginia (VA) 

• Web Site of the Commonwealth of Virginia www.myvirginia.org/

• Official Tourism Website www.virginia.org

Travel Services Providers on the Internet

• Expedia www.expedia.com
• Price Line www.priceline.com
• Travel Hero www.travelhero.com
• Travel City www.travelcity.com

Getting Locations and Directions in the US

• MapQuest www.mapquest.com
• Expedia www.expedia.com
• Yahoo www.maps.yahoo.com
• MSN Maps & Directions www.maps.msn.com