COM 210 - Communication and Critical Thinking

Government Accountability Office (GAO) - "(GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress....We provide Congress with timely information that is objective, fact-based, nonpartisan, nonideological, fair, and balanced."

• The Reports and Testimonies and Key Issues sections are particularly useful

Congressional Budget Office (CBO) - "(CBO) has produced independent analyses of budgetary and economic issues to support the Congressional budget process. The agency is strictly nonpartisan and conducts objective, impartial analysis, which is evident in each of the dozens of reports and hundreds of cost estimates that its economists and policy analysts produce each year."

• The Cost Estimates and Topics sections are particularly useful

Congressional Research Service (CRS) - "CRS is well-known for analysis that is authoritative, confidential, objective and nonpartisan. Its highest priority is to ensure that Congress has 24/7 access to the nation’s best thinking."

• Report archives listed at Wikipedia - find a list of online repositories of CRS reports
• Congressional Research Service Reports (University of North Texas) - "[P]rovide[s] integrated, searchable access to many of the full-text CRS reports that have been available at a variety of different web sites since 1990."

Current Issues, Hot Topics & Controversies - guide to library resources that are unavailable through the Free Web

IssueLab - "[P]rovide[s] free access to thousands of case studies, evaluations, white papers, and issue briefs addressing some of the world's most pressing social problems."

Think Tank Research – "A Google Custom Search of more than 1200 think tanks and research centers."