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Sessions of Congress with Corresponding
Debate Record Volume Numbers (1789-Current)
Legislative Research Special Interest Section
Law Librarians’ Society, Washington, D.C., Inc.
Congress
Session
Dates
Volume Number
Annals of Congress@
1st
1
March 4, 1789 - September 29, 1789
1
2
January 4, 1790 - August 12, 1790
1 & 2
3
December 6, 1790 - March 3, 1791
2
2nd
*
March 4, 1791
2
1
October 24, 1791 - May 9, 1792
3
2
November 5, 1792 - March 2, 1793
3
3rd
*
March 4, 1793
3
1
December 2, 1793 - June 9, 1794
4
2
November 3, 1794 - March 3, 1795
4
4th
*
June 8, 1795 - June 26, 1795
4
1
December 7, 1795 - June 1, 1796
5
2
December 5, 1796-March 3, 1797
6
5th
*
March 4, 1797
6
1
May 15, 1797 - July 10, 1797
7
2
November 13, 1797 - July 16, 1798
7 & 8
*
July 17, 1798 - July 19, 1798
7
3
December 3, 1798 - March 3, 1799
8 & 9
6th
1
December 2, 1799 - May 14, 1800
10
2
November 17, 1800 - March 3, 1801
10
7th
*
March 4, 1801- March 5, 1801
10
1
December 7, 1801 - May 3, 1802
11
2
December 6, 1802 - March 3, 1803
12
8th
1
October 17, 1803 - March 27, 1804
13
2
November 5, 1804 - March 3, 1805
14
2
Congress
Session
Dates
Volume Number
Annals of Congress
9th
*
March 4, 1805
14
1
December 2, 1805 - April 21, 1806
15
2
December 1, 1806 - March 3, 1807
16
10th
1
October 26, 1807 - April 25, 1808
17 & 18
2
November 7, 1808 - March 3, 1809
19
11th
*
March 4, 1809 - March 7, 1809
19
1
May 22, 1809 - June 28, 1809
20
2
November 27, 1809 - May 1, 1810
20 & 21
3
December 3, 1810 - March 3, 1811
22
12th
1
November 4, 1811 - July 6, 1812
23 & 24
2
November 2, 1812 - March 3, 1813
25
13th
1
May 24, 1813 - August 2, 1813
26
2
December 6, 1813 - April 18, 1814
26 & 27
3
September 19, 1814 - March 3, 1815
28
14th
1
December 4, 1815 - April 30, 1816
29
2
December 2, 1816 - March 3, 1817
30
15th
*
March 4, 1817 - March 6, 1817
30
1
December 1, 1817 - April 20, 1818
31 & 32
2
November 6, 1818 - March 3, 1819
33 & 34
16th
1
December 6, 1819 - May 15, 1820
35 & 36
2
November 13, 1820 - March 3, 1821
37
17th
*
March 6, 1821
37
1
December 3, 1821 - May 8, 1822
38 & 39
2
December 2, 1822 - March 3, 1823
40
18th
1
December 1, 1823 - May 27, 1824
41 & 42
3
Congress
Session
Dates
Volume Number
Register of Debates@
18th
2
December 6, 1824 – March 3, 1825
1
19th
1
December 5, 1825 – May 22, 1826
2
2
December 4, 1826 – March 3, 1827
3
20th
1
December 3, 1827 – May 26, 1828
4
2
December 1, 1828 – March 3, 1829
5
21st
*
March 5, 1829 – March 16, 1829
5
1
December 7, 1829 – May 31, 1830
6
2
December 6, 1830 – March 3, 1831
7
22nd
1
December 5, 1831 - July 16, 1832
8
2
December 3, 1832 - March 2, 1833
9
23rd
1
December 2, 1833 - June 30, 1834
10
2
December 1, 1834 - March 3, 1835
11
24th
1
December 7, 1835 - July 4, 1836
12
2
December 5, 1836 - March 3, 1837
13
25th
1
September 4, 1837 - October 16, 1837
14
Congressional Globe
23rd
1
December 2, 1833 - June 30, 1834
1
2
December 1, 1834 - March 3, 1835
2
24th
1
December 7, 1835 - July 4, 1836
3
2
December 5, 1836 - March 3, 1837
4
25th
1
September 4, 1837 - October 16, 1837
5
2
December 4, 1837 - July 9, 1838
6
3
December 3, 1838 - March 3, 1839
7
26th
1
December 2, 1839 - July 21, 1840
8
2
December 7, 1840 - March 3, 1841
9
4
Congress
Session
Dates
Volume Number
Congressional Globe
27th
*
March 4, 1841 - March 14, 1841
9
1
May 31, 1841- September 13, 1841
10
2
December 6, 1841 - August 31, 1842
11
3
December 5, 1842 - March 3, 1843
12
28th
1
December 4, 1843 - June 17, 1844
13
2
December 2, 1844 - March 3, 1845
14
29th
*
March 4, 1845 - March 6, 1845
14
1
December 1, 1845 - August 10, 1846
15^
2
December 7, 1846 - March 3, 1847
16^
30th
1
December 6, 1847 - August 14, 1848
17^v
2
December 4, 1848 - March 3, 1849
18^
31st
*
March 5, 1849 - March 23, 1849
18^
1
December 3, 1849 - September 30, 1850
19^v
2
December 2, 1850 - March 3, 1851
20^
32nd
*
March 5, 1851 - March 13, 1851
20^
1
December 1, 1851 - August 31, 1852
21^
2
December 6, 1852 - March 3, 1853
22^
33rd
*
March 4, 1853 - April 11, 1853
22^
1
December 5, 1853 - August 7, 1854
23^
2
December 4, 1854 - March 3, 1855
24^
34th
1
December 3, 1855 - August 18, 1856
25^
2
August 21, 1856 - August 30, 1856
25^
3
December 1, 1856 - March 3, 1857
26^
35th
*
March 4, 1857 - March 14, 1857
26^
1
December 7, 1857 - June 14, 1858
27^
*
June 15, 1858 - June 16, 1858
27^
2
December 6, 1858 - March 3, 1859
28^
5
Congress
Session
Dates
Volume Number
Congressional
Globe
36th
*
March 4, 1859 - March 10, 1859
28^
1
December 5, 1859 - June 25, 1860
29^
*
June 26, 1860 - June 27, 1860
29^
2
December 3, 1860 - March 2, 1861
30^
37th
*
March 4, 1861 - March 28, 1861
30^
1
July 4, 1861 - August 6, 1861
31^
2
December 2, 1861 - July 17, 1862
32^
3
December 1, 1862 - March 3, 1863
33^
38th
*
March 4, 1863 - March 14, 1863
33^
1
December 7, 1863 - July 4, 1864
34^
2
December 5, 1864 - March 3, 1865
35^
39th
*
March 4, 1865 - March 11, 1865
35^
1
December 4, 1865 - July 28, 1866
36^
2
December 3, 1866 - March 4, 1867
37^
40th
1
March 4, 1867 - December 2, 1867
38^h
*
April 1, 1867 - April 20, 1867
38^
2
December 2, 1867 - November 10, 1868
39^
3
December 7, 1868 - March 3, 1869
40^
41st
1
March 4, 1869 - April 10, 1869
41^
*
April 12, 1869 - April 22, 1869
41^
2
December 6, 1869 - July 15, 1870
42^
3
December 5, 1870 - March 3, 1871
43^
42nd
1
March 4, 1871 - April 20, 1871
44^
*
May 10, 1871 - May 22, 1871
44^
2
December 4, 1871 - June 10, 1872
45^
3
December 2, 1872 - March 3, 1873
46^
6
Congress
Session
Dates
Volume Number
Congressional Record
43rd
*
March 4, 1873 - March 26, 1873
1
1
December 1, 1873 - June 23, 1874
2
2
December 7, 1874 - March 3, 1875
3
44th
*
March 5, 1875 - March 23, 1875
4
1
December 6, 1875 - August 15, 1876
4
2
December 4, 1876 - March 3, 1877
5
45th
*
March 5, 1877 - March 17, 1877
6
1
October 15, 1877 - December 3, 1877
6
2
December 3, 1877 - June 20, 1878
7
3
December 2, 1878 - March 3, 1879
8
46th
1
March 18, 1879 - July 1, 1879
9
2
December 1, 1879 - June 16, 1880
10
3
December 6, 1880 - March 3, 1881
11
47th
*
March 4, 1881 - May 20, 1881
12
*
October 10, 1881 - October 29, 1881
12
1
December 5, 1881 - August 8, 1882
13
2
December 4, 1882 - March 3, 1883
14
48th
1
December 3, 1883 - July 7, 1884
15
2
December 1, 1884 - March 3, 1885
16
49th
*
March 4, 1885 – April 2, 1885
17
1
December 7, 1885 - August 5, 1886
17
2
December 6, 1886 - March 3, 1887
18
50th
1
December 5, 1887 - October 20, 1888
19
2
December 3, 1888 – March 2, 1889
20
51st
*
March 4, 1889 - April 2, 1889
21
1
December 2, 1889 - October 1, 1890
21
2
December 1, 1890 - March 3, 1891
22
7
Congress
Session
Dates
Volume Number
Congressional Record
52nd
1
December 7, 1891 – August 5, 1892
23
2
December 5, 1892 – March 3, 1893
24
53rd
*
March 4, 1893 - April 15, 1893
25
1
August 7, 1893 – November 3, 1893
25
2
December 4, 1893 – August 28, 1894
26
3
December 3, 1894 – March 3, 1895
27
54th
1
December 2, 1895 - June 11, 1896
28
2
December 7, 1896 – March 3, 1897
29
55th
*
March 4, 1897 - March 10, 1897
30
1
March 15, 1897 - July 24, 1897
30
2
December 6, 1897 - July 8, 1898
31
3
December 5, 1898 – March 3, 1899
32
56th
1
December 4, 1899 - June 7, 1900
33
2
December 3, 1900 – March 2, 1901
34
57th
*
March 4, 1901 - March 9, 1901
35
1
December 2, 1901 - July 1, 1902
35
2
December 1, 1902 - March 3, 1903
36
58th
*
March 5, 1903 - March 19, 1903
37
1
November 9, 1903 - December 7, 1903
37
2
December 7, 1903 - April 28, 1904
38
3
December 5, 1904 - March 4, 1905
39
59th
*
March 4, 1905 - March 18, 1905
40
1
December 4, 1905 - June 30, 1906
40
2
December 3, 1906 - March 3, 1907
41
60th
1
December 2, 1907 - May 30, 1908
42
2
December 7, 1908 - March 4, 1909
43
61st
*
March 4, 1909 - March 6, 1909
44
1
March 15, 1909 - August 5, 1909
44
2
December 6, 1909 - June 25, 1910
45
3
December 5, 1910 - March 4, 1911
46
8
Congress
Session
Dates
Volume Number
Congressional Record
62nd
1
April 4, 1911 – August 22, 1911
47
2
December 4, 1911 - August 26, 1912
48
3
December 2, 1912 - March 3, 1913
49
63rd
*
March 4, 1913 – March 17, 1913
50
1
April 7, 1913 – December 1, 1913
50
2
December 1, 1913 - October 24, 1914
51
3
December 7, 1914 - March 4, 1915
52
64th
1
December 6, 1915 - September 8, 1916
53
2
December 4, 1916 - March 4, 1917
54
65th
*
March 5, 1917 – March 16, 1917
55
1
April 2, 1917 – October 6, 1917
55
2
December 3, 1917 – November 21, 1918
56
3
December 2, 1918 - March 4, 1919
57
66th
1
May 19. 1919 – November 19, 1919
58
2
December 1, 1919 - June 5, 1920
59
3
December 6, 1920 - March 4, 1921
60
67th
*
March 4, 1921- March 15, 1921
61
1
April 11, 1921 - November 23, 1921
61
2
December 5, 1921 – September 22, 1922
62
3
November 20, 1922 – December 4, 1922
63-a
4
December 4, 1922 - March 4, 1923
64-a
68th
1
December 3, 1923 - June 7, 1924
65-a
2
December 1, 1924 - March 4, 1925
66-a
69th
*
March 4, 1925 - March 18, 1925
67-a
1
December 7, 1925 - July 3, 1926
67-a
*
November 10, 1926
67-a
2
December 6, 1926 - March 4, 1927
68-a
70th
1
December 5, 1927 - May 29, 1928
69-a
2
December 3, 1928 - March 4, 1929
70-a
9
Congress
Session
Dates
Volume Number
Congressional Record
71st
*
March 4, 1929 - March 5, 1929
71-a
1
April 15, 1929 - November 22, 1929
71-a
2
December 2, 1929 - July 3, 1930
72-a
*
July 7, 1930 – July 21, 1930
73-a
3
December 1, 1930 - March 4, 1931
74-a
72nd
1
December 7, 1931 - July 16, 1932
75-a
2
December 5, 1932 - March 4, 1933
76-a
73rd
*
March 4, 1933 - March 6, 1933
77-a
1
March 9, 1933 - June 15, 1933
77-a
2
January 3, 1934 - June 18, 1934#
78-a
74th
1
January 3, 1935 - August 26, 1935
79-a
2
January 3, 1936 - June 20, 1936
80-a
75th
1
January 5, 1937 – August 21, 1937
81
2
November 15, 1937-December 21, 1937
82
3
January 3, 1938 - June 16, 1938
83
76th
1
January 3, 1939 - August 5, 1939
84
2
September 21, 1939 - November 3, 1939
85
3
January 3, 1940 - January 3, 1941
86
77th
1
January 3, 1941 - January 2, 1942#
87#
2
January 5, 1942 - December 16, 1942
88
78th
1
January 6, 1943 - December 21, 1943
89
2
January 10, 1944 - December 19, 1944
90
79th
1
January 3, 1945 - December 21, 1945
91
2
January 14, 1946 - August 2, 1946
92
80th
1
January 3, 1947 - December 19, 1947
93d
2
January 6, 1948 - December 31, 1948
94
81st
1
January 3, 1949 - October 19, 1949
95
2
January 3, 1950 - January 2, 1951
96
10
Congress
Session
Dates
Volume Number
Congressional Record
82nd
1
January 3, 1951 - October 20, 1951
97
2
January 8, 1952 - July 7, 1952
98
83rd
1
January 3, 1953 - August 3, 1953
99
2
January 6, 1954 - December 2, 1954
100-a
84th
1
January 5, 1955 - August 2, 1955
101-a
2
January 3, 1956 - July 27, 1956
102-a
85th
1
January 3, 1957 - August 30, 1957
103-a
2
January 7, 1958 - August 24, 1958
104-a
86th
1
January 7, 1959 - September 14, 1959
105-a
2
January 6, 1960 - September 1, 1960
106-a
87th
1
January 3, 1961 - September 26, 1961
107-a
2
January 10, 1962 - October 13, 1962
108-a
88th
1
January 9, 1963 - December 30, 1963
109-a
2
January 7, 1964 - October 3, 1964
110-a
89th
1
January 4, 1965 - October 22, 1965
111-a
2
January 10, 1966 - October 22, 1966
112-a
90th
1
January 10, 1967 - December 15, 1967
113
2
January 15, 1968 - October 14, 1968
114x
91st
1
January 3, 1969 - December 23, 1969
115
2
January 19, 1970 - January 2, 1971
116
92nd
1
January 21, 1971 - December 17, 1971
117s
2
January 18, 1972 - October 18, 1972
118
93rd
1
January 3, 1973 - December 22, 1973
119
2
January 21, 1974 - December 20, 1974
120
94th
1
January 14, 1975 - December 19, 1975
121
2
January 19, 1976 - October 1, 1976
122
11
Congress
Session
Dates
Volume Number
Congressional Record
95th
1
January 4, 1977 - December 15, 1977
123
2
January 19, 1978 - October 14, 1978
124
96th
1
January 15, 1979 - January 3, 1980
125
2
January 3, 1980 - December 16, 1980
126
97th
1
January 5, 1981 - December 16, 1981
127
2
January 25, 1982 - December 23, 1982
128
98th
1
January 3, 1983 - November 18, 1983
129
2
January 23, 1984 - October 12, 1984
130
99th
1
January 3, 1985 - December 20, 1985
131e
2
January 21, 1986 - October 18, 1986
132
100th
1
January 6, 1987 - December 22, 1987
133
2
January 25, 1988 - October 22, 1988
134
101st
1
January 3, 1989 - November 22, 1989
135t
2
January 23, 1990 - October 28, 1990
136
102nd
1
January 3, 1991 - January 3, 1992
137
2
January 3, 1992 - October 9, 1992
138
103rd
1
January 5, 1993 - November 26, 1993
139
2
January 25, 1994 - December 1, 1994
140
104th
1
January 4, 1995 - January 3, 1996
141p
2
January 3, 1996 - October 4, 1996
142
105th
1
January 7, 1997 - November 13, 1997
143
2
January 27, 1998 - October 21, 1998?
144
106th
1
January 6, 1999 - November 22, 1999
145b
2
January 24, 2000 - December 15, 2000
146
107th
1
January 3, 2001 - December 20, 2001
147
2
January 23, 2002 - November 22, 2002
148
12
Congress
Session
Dates
Volume Number
Congressional Record
108th
1
January 7, 2003 - December 9, 2003
149
2
January 20, 2004 - December 8, 2004
150
109th
1
January 4, 2005 - December 22, 2005
151
2
January 3, 2006 - December 8, 2006
152
110th
1
January 4, 2007 - December 31, 2007
153
2
January 3, 2008 – January 3, 2009
154
111th
1
January 6, 2009 –
155
____________
NOTES/MILESTONES:
@ The Annals of Congress (1789-1824) were compiled and published by Gales and Seaton from early
newspaper and other sources after they had already published the contemporary Register of Debates (1824-
1837). Both publications were consecutively numbered by column with two columns per page and within
each session had separately grouped material for Senate proceedings, House proceedings and an appendix.
The appendix section included public laws and executive reports (the Annals) as well as inserted speeches
and selected congressional documents and reports (the Register).
* Indicates a special session of the Senate usually for executive confirmations, treaty ratifications,
inaugural addresses, or trials after impeachments. Frequently, the special session occurred right after the
close of a congress and thus material from the special session was often, before the advent of the
Congressional Record, printed at the end of the debate volume of the preceding congress.
^ Indicates that after volume 14 in the Congressional Globe (1845), published by Blair & Rives, volume
numbers were no longer printed in the original documents. The phrase "New Series" appears instead.
However, many libraries have applied volume numbers to the spine of the Globe volumes based on the
table found in the Checklist of United States Public Documents: 1789-1909, 3rd ed., vol. 1B, pp. 1466-69.
Generally, as in the Register of Debates and the Congressional Record, a new volume number was applied
for each new congressional session unless the session was quite small, as in a special session of the Senate.
For sessions with material of extensive size, multiple parts (books) within a volume are used. Citations to
the Congressional Globe should normally refer to the congressional session rather than the volume number
as in CONG. GLOBE, 36th Cong., 1st Sess. 1672 (1860). Other debate record citations can employ volume
numbers, as in 38 ANNALS OF CONG. 624 (1822), 10 REG. DEB. 3472 (1834), and 123 CONG. REC. 17,147
(1977). See The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 17th ed., p. 95, 2000.
v Indicates when in the Senate (1848) and when in the House (1850) near verbatim reporting of the debates
became a reality with the adoption by those bodies of the shorthand method created by Isaac Pittman.
h Indicates when (1867) a history of Senate bills and resolutions and a history of House bills and
resolutions began appearing in the debate record index for each congressional session covered. An index
has always been a part of each record of debates. Before 1867 the best source for bill histories is probably
the table of bills in the House and Senate journals.
13
-a Indicates that the bound edition of the Congressional Record lacks the appendix material of inserted
House remarks and documents that was published in the daily edition. There were two periods in which this
occurred. The first absence involved volumes 63 to 80 (1923-1936) and the second absence involved
volumes 100 to 112 (1954-1966). In the later, the bound Record Index referenced material in the daily
appendix, and therefore many collections have retained the daily appendix either in hard copy or in
microform. Appendices in the Congressional Record and the Congressional Globe have almost always had
separate pagination from House and Senate proceedings and, before the 66th Congress (1919), they had
their own index as well.
# The 20th amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1933, provided that Congress would begin meeting
on January 3 of each year unless specified otherwise by law. However, it was not until the first session of
the 77th Congress (1941) that two session congresses became normative with a single session generally
reflecting a single year. 1941 was also the time in which the Congressional Record (volume 87) began its
three column format instead of its former two column format.
d Indicates when (1947) the "Daily Digest" began to be published as part of the Congressional Record.
x Indicates when (1968) the "Extensions of Remarks" section of the daily edition of the Congressional
Record began to be incorporated as part of the regular numeric pagination of the bound edition of the
Record. In the previous session (1967) the daily edition began to be paginated in sections with a letter
preceding the numeric sequence: H for House proceedings, S for Senate proceedings, E for Extensions of
Remarks and D for Daily Digest. The 1967 Extensions of Remarks section was placed in an Appendix in
the bound edition. After that year there have been no appendices to the Record as they have been replaced
by the Extensions of Remarks.
s Indicates when (1971) a special section of "Statements on Introduced Bills and Resolutions", which often
included the text of Senate bills, began appearing in the Senate proceedings of the Congressional Record.
At the same time bullet dots  began to be placed before and after material not actually spoken on the
Senate floor.
e Indicates when (1985) the earliest electronic version of the daily edition of the Congressional Record is
available commercially via LexisNexis or Westlaw. The bound edition, which has a totally different
pagination from the daily edition, becomes the preferred citation after it has been published (usually some
five years after the daily edition).
t Indicates when (1989) the earliest version of the daily edition of the Congressional Record is available on
Library of Congress Web site, THOMAS (http://thomas.loc.gov).
p Indicates when (1995) the earliest PDF version of the daily Congressional Record is available via GPO
Access (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/crecord/index.html).
b Indicates what volumes (1999 et. seq.) of the bound Congressional Record are available on GPO Access.
______________________________________________________________________________________
The information in this table, compiled by Richard McKinney and Bonnie Oden at the Federal Reserve
Board in Washington, D.C., was largely derived from Appendix B of A Research Guide to Congress: How
to Make Congress Work for You, 2nd Ed, by Judith Manion, Joseph Meringolo and Robert Oaks, Legislate,
Inc., 1991; from the collection at the Library of the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C.;
and from An Overview of the Congressional Record and Its PredecessorPublications by Richard
McKinney, LLSDC (http://www.llsdc.org/cong-record.htm).