Is there a way to use an iframe or some other method of showing a named div from another website?
I want to pull in some data from a government website into a google
Using JQuery, you should be able to exactly that with the load-function.
Here is a small example to get a container with id "container" on a page called Test.html:
$('#contentDiv').load('/Test.html #container');
You can visit the JQuery documentation here for more info.