Legislative Archives

Dear William -- thank you for posting to History Hub!   NARA Record Group 233 are records of the U.S. House of Representatives, held by the Center for Legislative Archives -- a unit within the National Archives.   Indexes to private claims submitted to U.S. Congress have been published as a part of the U.S. Serial Set. The indexes generally…

Dear Conrad -- thank you for posting to History Hub!   The published transcripts of congressional hearings can be found through ProQuest Congressional, a subscription database. Transcripts can also sometimes be found freely available online through sources like Hathi Trust, Google Books, and the Internet Archive.   Regarding audio and video,…

Hi Quincy -- thank you for posting to History Hub!   A good resource for locating congressional hearing transcripts is ProQuest Congressional, a subscription database. I would recommend checking with local academic or law libraries for access.   Another subscription database that has congressional hearing transcripts is HeinOnline.  …

Hi Allen -- thank you for posting to History Hub!   You can find information on congressional approval of the promotion of Air Force officers in the Senate Executive Journal -- in addition to the legislative journal, the Senate keeps an executive journal to record its proceedings that relate to the functions of confirming presidential nominees…

Hi Calvin -- thank you for posting to History Hub!   The Center for Legislative Archives, a unit within the National Archives, holds the official records of congressional committees, and the records of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate as a whole. It does not look like we have anything in our holdings from the sixth Congress…

Hi Yvonne -- thank you for posting to the History Hub!   The Center for Legislative Archives, a unit within the National Archives, holds the official records of congressional committees, and the records of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate as a whole.   I searched our holdings in the National Archives Catalog and see some…

Hi Tiffany,   Thanks for posting to the Hub!   Prior to C-SPAN, the U.S. House and Senate rarely recorded proceedings and any footage belonged to the broadcasting company--not Congress. I suggest contacting repositories such as the Film and Television Archive at UCLA or the Vanderbilt Television News Archives.   My office, the Center for…

Hi Michael,   Thanks for posting to the Hub!   My office, the Center for Legislative Archives,  holds the records of the U.S. House and Senate. The reading copies of Churchill's speeches are not located in our holdings; however, it looks like they were printed in the Congressional Record. You can access the Congressional Record through GovInfo:…

Hi Mary Ann,   Thanks for posting to the Hub!   For access to records of the U.S. Senate (Record Group 46), I suggest sending your inquiry to legislative.archives@nara.gov. Please keep in mind that the records of the 1st Congress have been transcribed and published through the First Federal Congress Project. More information can be found here:…

Hi Donna,   Thanks for posting to the Hub! You can access transcripts of Supreme Court nomination hearings through GovInfo. If you're looking for other congressional hearing transcripts, I recommend reading these guides offered by the Library of Congress: How to Locate a Published Congressional Hearing and How to Locate an Unpublished…

Dear Paula -- thank you for posting to History Hub!   I'd recommend starting with A Century of Lawmaking, a website from the Library of Congress that's digitized many of the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress.   From the search page, look for "John McDaniel" and limit the results to the 36th…