Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) Classification System

US Government Branches

• Executive Branch
• The White House
  • Portraits of the Presidents from the National Portrait Gallery
    Since 1968, the National Portrait Gallery has assumed the responsibility of gathering a collection of presidential portraits to preserve national and political history. Painted, sculpted or engraved portraits were the only means for most people to know their president until the creation of photography, followed by television.
  • Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
    Searchable index of the president's statements, messages, remarks, and other materials released by the White House Press Secretary.
  • White House Virtual Library
    Search White House documents, executive orders, and radio addresses.
• Executive Departments
• Legislative Branch
• House of Representatives
• United States Senate
• Oklahoma's US House of Representatives and Senate Delegation
• Legislative Informational Resources
• CQ Weekly
  CQ Weekly provides expert non-partisan coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, backroom maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes. Search by topic, page number, committee, exact phrases or words, bill number, byline or reporter, and by Boolean full-text and date searches. Detailed floor votes dating back to August 1983 are easily retrieved.
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
• General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports
  Search the full-text of audits, surveys, investigations, and evaluations of federal programs.
• How Our Laws Are Made
  How a bill becomes a law.
• THOMAS
  Use Thomas to search:
  • the full text and current status of bills before Congress
  • Congressional Record
  • Committee Reports
  • information about the legislative process
  • the Constitution and other historical documents
• United States Code
  The general and permanent laws of the United States.
• Judicial Branch
• United States Supreme Court
  • Supreme Court Decisions
    Full-text of all decisions since 1893.
  • Selected Historic Supreme Court Decisions
    Historic decisions from the 18th century to the present.
• United States Federal Court System
  • Understanding the Federal Courts
    An overview of the organization, operation, and administration of the entire federal court system.
  • Military Courts
    • Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals
      Established to review the records of each case of trial by court-martial where sentencing involves death, dismissal of commissioned officers or cadets, dishonorable discharge, bad conduct charges, or orders of confinement of one year or more.
    • Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant of the Marine Corps
      Central source of legal information for the U.S. Marine Corps.
    • US Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals
      Established to hear and decide appeals of Air Force court-martial convictions and appeals pendente lite.
    • US Army Court of Criminal Appeals
      Established to review the records of each case of trial by court-martial where sentencing involves death, dismissal of commissioned officers or cadets, dishonorable discharge, bad conduct charges, or orders of confinement of one year or more.
    • US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps
      Central source of legal information for the U.S. Army.
    • US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
      Established to determine the applicability of constitutional provisions to members of the armed forces and provides a significant impact on the state of discipline in the armed forces, military readiness, and the rights of servicemembers.
    • US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
      Established to review final decisions of the Board of Vetern's Appeals, cases of entitlement of disability or survivor benefits or the amount of those benefits, education benefits, life insurance, home loan forclosure, and waiver of indebtedness.
    • US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corp
      Central source of legal information for the U.S. Navy.
    • US Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals
      Established to review and decide appeals of Naval court-martial convictions.
    • USAF Office of the Judge Advocate General
      Central source of legal information for the U.S. Air Force.