# How to find the records from Congress. gov? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 7, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-the-records-from-congress-gov/965795 "2022-06-07T02:46:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cannonkuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@cannonkuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cannonkuo)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-the-records-from-congress-gov/965795/1 "2022-06-07T02:46:29Z")
One of the article references I read lately shows:US. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs. Latin America and the US. after the Falklands/ Malvinas Crisis (July 20 and August 5) (1982). 97th Congress, 2nd ses- sion. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office I tried to find the reference on the website of [Congress.gov](http://Congress.gov), but didn’t succeed. Can anyone who is familiar with the website and know the steps to get the records of July 20 and August 5,1982 from the Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, Latin America and the US after the Falklands/Malvinas? Thank you very much in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-the-records-from-congress-gov/965795/2 "2022-06-07T06:51:24Z")
Obvious points to state here: The record predates the internet and electronic document creation. Chances are that it was typed and, being from your Govt Printing Office, MAY be a bound and printed report only. It MAY subsequently have been scanned to produce a PDF, and that MAY be searchable and that MAY have been stored somewhere that a search engine could find it. The second point is that 40 year old records are most likely in the National Archives rather than being in the live Congress page, which says in several places it goes back to 2002 with some awe, as if that was when they were moving from cuneiform into ink. I’ve used your [?] National Archives before - they have a well-written guide on how to navigate the myriad of records for retrieval. Also you have a fairly unusual word combo -‘Malvinas crisis’ - in the record title. This might be worth a search on its own. ---
**Author:** ![cannonkuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@cannonkuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cannonkuo)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-the-records-from-congress-gov/965795/3 "2022-06-07T11:36:57Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#): > > Malvinas crisis Thank you so much for your explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-the-records-from-congress-gov/965795/4 "2022-06-07T18:22:28Z")
Are you looking for the underlying report, or for the daily record of the committee proceedings? Congressional subcommittee reports are only available from [congress.gov](http://congress.gov) [if they were originally published in 1995 or later](https://www.congress.gov/help/coverage-dates). For older reports, unless they were widely disseminated at the time based on public interest, you can visit [https://ask.gpo.gov/s/FDLD](https://ask.gpo.gov/s/FDLD) to find a federal depository library near you. The Congressional Record includes a “daily digest” of daily committee/subcommittee meetings going back to 1899. For [July 20, 1982](https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1982/07/20), all I see is: > FALKLANDS CRISIS AFTERMATH > _Committee on Foreign Affairs:_ Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs held a hearing on Latin America and the U.S. after the Falklands Crisis (Part I). Testimony was heard from public witnesses. > The actual testimony may be included in the Extensions of Remarks section which is [here](https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1982/07/20/extensions-of-remarks-section), but it’s 41 pages so I’m not looking for you. ---
**Author:** ![cannonkuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@cannonkuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cannonkuo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-the-records-from-congress-gov/965795/5 "2022-06-08T02:43:11Z")
I’m looking for both the underlying report and the daily record of the committee proceedings. Thank you for the leads and such an informative explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-the-records-from-congress-gov/965795/6 "2022-06-08T02:58:29Z")
> [@cannonkuo](#): > > US. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs. Latin America and the US. after the Falklands/ Malvinas Crisis (July 20 and August 5) (1982). 97th Congress, 2nd ses- sion. While not the entire record of the session, the prepared statement of Assistant Secretary of Inter-American Affairs Thomas Enders on August 5, 1982 was published in the State Department Bulletin’s October issue. The State Department Bulletin is well out of print, but publications of the federal government are in the public domain. The issue is available online at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015077200098&view=1up&seq=382](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015077200098&view=1up&seq=382) ~Max ---
**Author:** ![cannonkuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@cannonkuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cannonkuo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-the-records-from-congress-gov/965795/7 "2022-06-08T03:15:21Z")
Thank you soooo…much, Max. I’m welling up…