GPO Issues Digital Release of Historical Congressional Record for the 1930s

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) partners with the Library of Congress to release the digital version of the bound Congressional Record from 1931-1940 on GPO's govinfo.
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/crecb_gpo/_crecb
This release covers debates and proceedings of the 72nd thru the 76th Congresses.

This era of Congress covers historical topics such as:

  • The Great Depression
  • The last two years of the Herbert Hoover Administration and the elections of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, 1936, and 1940
  • The 21st Amendment (ending Prohibition)
  • The New Deal (Emergency Banking Act, Civilian Conservation Corps, Tennessee Valley Authority Act, Glass-Steagall Act, National Industrial Recovery Act, Wagner Act, Social Security Act, Rural Electrification Act, etc.)
  • Senator Huey Long
  • FDR’s court-packing plan
  • The various Neutrality Acts, Lend Lease, and the beginning of World War II

"This latest digital release of the Congressional Record now gives the public easy access to the historic debates of Congress from the 1930s to today on smartphones, tablets, laptops and personal computers," said GPO Director Davita Vance-Cooks. "GPO is honored to partner with the Library of Congress to continue to meet the needs of Congress and the American people."

GPO is the Federal Government's official, digital, secure resource for producing, procuring, cataloging, indexing, authenticating, disseminating, and preserving the official information products of the U.S. Government. The GPO is responsible for the production and distribution of information products and services for all three branches of the Federal Government, including U.S. passports for the Department of State as well as the official publications of Congress, the White House, and other Federal agencies in digital and print formats. GPO provides for permanent public access to Federal Government information at no charge through www.govinfo.gov, partnerships with approximately 1,150 libraries nationwide participating in the Federal Depository Library Program, and our secure online bookstore. For more information, please visit www.gpo.gov.

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