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The Center for Legislative Archives holds and preserves the official records of Congress on behalf of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. The records of Congress reflect America's entire national experience from the First Congress in 1789 to the present. They reveal the centrality of Congress to the American story, and illustrate the institutional operations of the representative branch of government. The documents presented here are a small sampling of the wealth of historical records in the Center's holdings which total over 350 million pages.
List of Documents:
- Cherokee Protest of the New Echota Treaty (1836)
- President Andrew Jackson's Bank Veto (1832)
- Henry Clay's Resolutions on the Removal of Deposits from the Bank of the U.S. (1833)
- Expungement from Senate Journal of Clay's Censure Resolution (1837)
- Wilmot Proviso (1846)
- Map of the United States and Territories (1848)
- Testimony on the Assault of Senator Charles Sumner (1856)
- Resolution of Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson (1868)
- Credentials for Hiram Revels (1870)
- Woman Suffrage Petition (1874)
- Child Labor Pamphlet (1913)
- Congressman Francis Walter's Memo on Naturalization (ca. 1951)
- Draft of Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
- Photograph of ruins of Mt. Pleasant Society Hall (1965)
- Letter from George Neu opposed to the Voting Rights Act (1965)
- Letter from Mrs. E. Jackson in favor of the Voting Rights Act (1965)
- Congressman John Conyers' statement on the Voting Rights Act (1965)
- President Richard Nixon's Veto (1973)
- War Powers Resolution (1973)
