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The First Journal of the United States House of Representatives, First Congress, 1789-1791, Records of the United States House of Representatives.

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The First Journal United States Senate, First Congress, 1789-1791, Records of the United States Senate.

Congressional Records

The Historical Records of Congress

The Center for Legislative Archives holds the historically valuable records of

• The U.S. Senate, and
• The U.S. House of Representatives,

including the official Committee records, all of which remain the legal property of the House and Senate.

Records from legislative branch support organizations, such as the Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Technology Assessment, as well as publications from the Government Printing Office, are also available at the Center. These records total more than 190,000 cubic feet (380 million pages) and require 33 miles of shelving!

The Center has a variety of finding aids that are useful when conducting research in the records of Congress.

Special Collections

Oral History, Research Interviews, and Political Cartoons

To supplement the official records of Congress housed at the Center, the Center for Legislative Archives maintains other materials in its holdings:

• Clifford K. Berryman Political Cartoon Collection
  
• Oral History and Research Interviews
  
• Issac Bassett Manuscript Collection

For more information, please contact the Center for Legislative Archives.