Subcommittee Hearings

I would be greatly appreciative if someone could tell me where I can locate on-line old Subcommittee Hearings. I drove over to UW-Parkside back in 2012 and the librarian assisted me greatly and I relayed that at the time. I am looking specifically for the complete “Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, 83^rd Congress, First Session, November 27, 1953”. I have Part 6 and Appendix II but would like to have the entire document available. Evidently I do not fully comprehend how to search .gov.

Thanks in advance for any assistance one might offer.

Mike

Answer

Thank you for your question. The Govinfo.gov website currently only has hearings back to the 85th Congress (1957–1958), but there are some other ways you can access these documents.

They are available online at Google Books in one large file: https://bit.ly/2ZdCsQD

These are links to the pages in the PDF where each individual part or appendix begins:

Part 1: https://bit.ly/2ZdCsQD#page=10

Part 2: https://bit.ly/2ZdCsQD#page=96

Part 3: https://bit.ly/2ZdCsQD#page=296

Part 4: https://bit.ly/2ZdCsQD#page=486

Part 5: https://bit.ly/2ZdCsQD#page=738

Part 6: https://bit.ly/2ZdCsQD#page=954

Appendix I: https://bit.ly/2ZdCsQD#page=1108

Appendix II: https://bit.ly/2ZdCsQD#page=1298

They are also available online in separate files at the HathiTrust website, but the files can only be downloaded one page at a time unless you are affiliated with a HathiTrust member library:

HathiTrust (can only download one page at a time):

Part 1: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039410116

Part 2: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039410124

Part 3: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039410132

Part 4: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039410140

Part 5: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039410157

Part 6: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039410165

Appendix I: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039410173

Appendix II: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039410181

The hearings are available through the commercial, subscription-based websites ProQuest Congressional and HeinOnline, both of which our library subscribes to. The complete set of files is too large to send here, but I am going to attempt to send the files directly to your e-mail. Let me know if they do not arrive or if there is a problem with opening them.

The Library of Congress has a research guide on where to find Congressional Hearings: https://guides.loc.gov/legislative-history/published-congressional-hearings

I hope this information is helpful. If this is not what you need, or if you should require any further assistance, please let us know.

Bobby Griffith

Government Information Reference Specialist
Eagle Commons Library
University of North Texas Libraries
Bobby.Griffith@unt.edu

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