{"id":3315,"date":"2013-01-03T13:29:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T13:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2023-09-18T18:20:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T18:20:50","slug":"congress-convenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2013\/01\/03\/congress-convenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Convenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_3317\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2013\/01\/capitolclose11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3317\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3317\" title=\"capitolclose[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2013\/01\/capitolclose11-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"United States Capitol\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2013\/01\/capitolclose11-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2013\/01\/capitolclose11.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">United States Capitol<\/p><\/div>Today marks the opening of the 113th Congress of the United States.\u00a0 It is a day of ceremony as the official ballot counts are recorded and Senators and Representatives are sworn in.\u00a0 Archives &amp; Special Collections is honored to hold the personal papers of many of Connecticut&#8217;s Congressional delegation, primarily from the mid to late twentieth century.\u00a0 The papers of <a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/asc\/dodda2z\/subjectarea.cfm?Area=14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fifteen members <\/a>the\u00a0delegation are open and available for research.<\/p>\n<p>Just as these papers document the concerns and issues of Connecticut and its resident&#8217;s, the Archives of the House of Representatives documents the activities of the House.\u00a0 In a new website, the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/history.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History, Art &amp; Archives of the U.S. House of Representatives<\/a>,\u201d provides access to finding aids for open House records dating from\u00a01789, \u00a0a searchable database which pulls the roughly 11,000 individuals with House service, \u00a0includes full interviews with a range of individuals from House history, as well as essays on the institution and other useful bits of information for those interested in the evolution of the House and the people who have been elected to serve there.<\/p>\n<p>Betsy Pittman, University Archivist<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the opening of the 113th Congress of the United States.\u00a0 It is a day of ceremony as the official ballot counts are recorded and Senators and Representatives are sworn in.\u00a0 Archives &amp; 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