Advisory Committee
The Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress was established under authority of Public Law 101-509 (November 5, 1990) to advise Congress and the Archivist of the United States on the management and preservation of the records of Congress.
The Advisory Committee is comprised of the officials in Congress responsible for its records (the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate); the Senate Historian and the House Historian; and the Archivist of the United States (who is responsible for the administration of the archived records of Congress). House and Senate leadership appoint public members of the committee who represent historians, political scientists, congressional archivists, and other users and caretakers of legislative records.
The Committee meets twice a year as required by law and continues to work actively to promote a more complete documentation of the legislative process.
Committee Members
Kevin McCumber, Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives (Chair)
Jackie Barber, Secretary of the Senate
Jim Byron, Senior Advisor to the Archivist of the United States
Matthew Wasniewski, Historian, U.S. House of Representatives
Kate Scott, Historian, U.S. Senate
Benjamin Francis-Fallon, Associate Historian, U.S. House of Representatives
George Apodaca, Archivist, U.S. Senate
Denise Hibay, Director for Collections and Research at the New York Public Library
Upcoming Meeting
The next meeting will be announced soon. Please contact the Center for Legislative Archives with any questions.