Additional Resources

Subject Guides and Images

• Finding Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers: A guide to the locations of the papers of Hawaiʻi’s delegates to the U.S. Congress (including territorial delegates)
• Hawaiʻi History Day: Primary Sources from the Hawai’i Congressional Papers Collection: Collections of primary source relating to each year’s History Day theme
• Images from the Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection

Starting Your Research

• Video: Congressman Ed Case Reports to Hawai’i: A Day in the Life in Washington, DC: An introduction to the work of our members of Congress, and the activities that are documented in congressional collections
• Descriptions of the roles of congressional staff members, whose papers are also part of our congressional collections: Duties and Functions of Selected Positions (Congressional Research Service report), job descriptions from the Congressional Management Foundation
• Research Tips on Using Congressional Collections from the University of Mississippi Libraries
• Video overview of the legislative process from congress.gov
• Federal Depository Library Program webinar: Legislative Branch Resources 101
• Government Information, A Reference for Librarians in Hawaiʻi by Gwen Sinclair
• The University of Hawaiʻi School of Law Library’s Hawaiʻi Legal Research libguide
• Directory of archival institutions with congressional collections

Additional Websites About Congress & its History

• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present
• C-Span Congress Resource
• Historical Records of Congress (@ the Center for Legislative Archives)
• Legislative Search from Congress.gov (change the drop-down in the search box to limit your search to current legislation, all legislation, treaties, nominations, the Congressional Record, and more)
• U.S. Congressional Serial Set (Search the databases for ‘NewsBank Readex’)
• U.S. House of Representatives
• U.S. Senate

Hawaiʻi‘s Members of Congress

• Sen. Brian E. Schatz (D)
  • http://www.schatz.senate.gov/
  • Hawaiʻi office: (808) 523-2061
  • Washington, DC office: (202) 224-3934
• Sen. Mazie K. Hirono (D)
  • http://www.hirono.senate.gov/
  • Hawaiʻi office: (808) 522-8970
  • Washington, DC office: (202) 224-6361
• Rep. Ed Case (D), 1st District
  • https://case.house.gov/
  • Hawaiʻi office: (808) 650-6688
  • Washington, DC office: (202) 225-2726
• Rep. Kaialiʻi Kahele (D), 2nd District
  • http://kahele.house.gov/
  • Hawaiʻi office: 99 Aupuni St., Suites 113, 114, 118, Hilo, HI 96720
  • Washington, DC office: (202) 225-4906