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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.

The Forum’s mission is to encourage cooperation and collaboration among Federal agencies in order to improve the quality and utility of data on the aging population.

FindLaw's Cases and Codes section contains resources and links for both state and federal laws. This includes resources pertaining to constitutions, statutes, cases and more.

From the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The Center for Health and Environmental Data strives to provide timely, innovative and high-quality public health data collection, analysis and reporting services to drive evidence-based decisions, translate data into action and support policy development to protect and improve the health and environment of all Coloradans.

ClinicalTrials.gov is a database of privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world.

The mission of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) partnership, Collaborative Research on Addiction at NIH (CRAN), is to provide a strong collaborative framework to enable the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to integrate resources and expertise to advance substance use, abuse, and addiction research and public health outcomes.

The official state web portal.

Presented by the Library of Congress, Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information.

A resource of and for the Washington, D.C. foreign embassy community.

From CU-Boulder Libraries.

govinfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch. govinfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

The mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.

From the Library of Congress Newspaper & Current Reading Room.

From the United States Department of Agriculture. AGRICOLA records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.

The world’s largest biomedical library, NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics that are searched billions of times each year by millions of people around the globe.

From the U.S. Census Bureau. The QuickFacts data access tool provides users with easy access to basic population, business, and geography statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with more than 5,000 people.

The State and Local Internet directory provides convenient one-stop access to the websites of thousands of state agencies and city and county governments and other organizations.

From GovSpot.com, a non-partisan government information portal designed to simplify the search for the best and most relevant government information online

Official web portal of the United States Senate.

The mission and work of the United Nations are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter. The United Nations can take action on a wide variety of issues due to its unique international character and the powers vested in its Charter, which is considered an international treaty. As such, the UN Charter is an instrument of international law, and UN Member States are bound by it.

Official web portal of the United States House of Representatives.

USA.gov is your online guide to government information and services.

The White House is where the President and First Family of the United States live and work — but it’s also the People’s House, where we hope all Americans feel a sense of inclusion and belonging.

The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.