RECORD SERIES CONTAINERS
1. Legislative
Legislation files 1-49
Correspondence and reports related to legislative
proposals before Congress, Organized by Congress,
with exceptions, and by Committee thereunder.
Voting records 50-53
Various intermittent compilations of the voting
record of the Congressman and of general voting
records in the House of Representatives.
2. General correspondence and subject files
General correspondence 54-101
Correspondence of the Congressman and of
the office staff on a wide range of matters.
Includes invitation and request files.
Outgoing "blue copy" correspondence 102-130
Carbon copies of letters sent by the
Congressman's office.
General subject file 131-140
Chiefly reports and other informational
documents concerning public issues and
other matters of interest to Congress.
3. Office and personal files
Office Administration 141-145
Chiefly administrative documents concerning
office management. This series also includes
much of the Congressman's correspondence on
personal and non-official matters, as well as
several folders dated from before he was first
elected, these concerning his work for the
Senate Interior Committee.
Schedules 146-153
Scheduling for meetings, trips, appearances
and so on.
Travel/trips 154-156
Chiefly administrative documents for travel
by the Congressman. Coverage is intermittent,
with many trip files located elsewhere in the
papers, especially in the Spokane Office files.
Staff files 157-163
Intermittent files kept by Werner Brandt,
Bill First, Heather Foley and others. Chiefly
correspondence relative to policy issues,
including some of the Congressman's correspondence.
4. House and Party Leadership
Leadership - general 164-174
Assembled, in part, from scattered and loosely
grouped files relating to House and Party leader-
ship matters. Some Whip Office files, including
files for the Friends of Ireland. Alphabetical
arrangement imposed at Library.
Speaker's files 175-184
Assembled, in part, from scattered files.
Correspondence and reports, related mainly
to the functions on the Speaker's Office,
such as oversight of use of the Capitol
Building, House staff concerns, and some public
issues. Includes correspondence to members of
Congress and to the Administration. Alphabetical
arrangement imposed at Library
Caucus minutes & files 185-191
Minutes of meeting of the Democratic Caucus,
and some related files of the Caucus and it
constituent committees.
Steering and Policy Committee 192-196
Minutes, records of committee assignments, and
related records from the Democratic Caucus's
Steering and Policy Committee.
Whip Files 197-206
Whip count documents, Whip Advisories for
Democratic Members of Congress, and miscellaneous
Whip files, many being circulars for Members.
5. Departmental and Agency files
Chiefly correspondence with federal agencies 207-290
regarding public concerns, along with corres-
pondence related to referrals for constituents
and certain materials relating to case-file
business. Some papers in this series may be
covered by the Privacy Law and may require the
approval of concerned parties prior to examina-
tion for research purposes.
6. Election campaigns
Spokane file 291-299
Opinion poll results, voter surveys, special interest
group questionnaires, news articles, and general
correspondence files regarding campaigning for election.
Also state and national Democratic Party position papers,
platforms, and on.
Washington DC file 300-307
Materials pertaining to local, regional, and national
issues, polling information and survey results, campaign
financial records, information about other races and
opposition candidates, mailing lists, endorsements, media
information, and campaign advertising material.
7. District office at Spokane
Chronological subject files - 1995-75 308-310
Correspondence, enclosures, schedules and trip
files concerning district issues and election
campaigns.
EXPO-74 and counties 310
Reports and correspondence relative to the World's
Fair exposition at Spokane, and to county govern-
ment in the district.
Alphabetical subject files - 1975-80 311-312
Correspondence and enclosures chiefly concerned with
public issues in the Fifth District, and second-
arily with national issues and elections.
Office administration and trips - 1975-80 313
Correspondence, schedules, trip files, referral
letters and administrative documents of the
Congressman's office at Spokane.
Alphabetical subject files - ca. 1974-83 314-315
Continuation of Subject files for 1975-80, with
overlap in time.
Alphabetical subject files - ca. 1980-89 316-317
Continuation of Subject files. Includes some
general correspondence.
Office administration and trips - 1980-89 318-322
Continuation of earlier administrative and district
trip records.
Issues and subjects : Information files 323-324
Reports, articles and other informational materials
regarding national and district issues. Circa 1980-
1993.
Election campaigns 325-327
Memoranda, correspondence, printer materials, lists
of donors, and so on. Similar to documents located
with record series called Election Campaigns.
Arranged chronologically.
Alphabetical subject files - 1990-94 328-330
Continuation of Subject files. Includes some
general correspondence.
Office and administrative files - 1990-94 330-340
Continuation of earlier administrative and district
trip records.
Files of staff employees 314-342
Correspondence, memoranda, lists, and reports kept
by various members of the District Office staff.
Many records are similar to those in the general
files.
Former Speaker's Office 343-347
Correspondence, enclosures, trip and scheduling
records, approximately one-half from after Speaker
Foley had left Congress. Other records similar to
earlier district office records.
8. Press files
Scrapbooks 348-365
Scrapbooks, chiefly press clippings of major
news stories involving the Congressman. Also
scattered election material, and unmounted clip-
pings intended for scrapbooks.
Allen's Clipping Service 366-397
Clippings from newspapers, purchased from Allen's
Clipping Service at Seattle. Some mounted in scrapbooks.
General clippings 398-401
Foldered newspaper clippings and photocopies of
clippings. Chiefly relative to national and
broader issues.
District clippings 402-411
Foldered clippings and photocopies of clippings con-
cerning public issues in the fifth district. Includes
clipping files from the Walla Walla office and the
Former Speaker's Office.
News releases 412-413
Incomplete run of press releases from Congressman
Foley's office.
Reprints 413-414
File of articles about the Congressman, kept by the
office for public distribution.
Transcripts 414
Copies of press interviews, television appearances,
and similar events.
Profiles 414
Biographies of the Congressman and analytical news
articles, chiefly from magazines.
Alphabetical subject files 415-425
Information files, correspondence, drafts of speeches
and statements, 1987-1994. These files were retained
chiefly for the use of Press Aide Jeff Biggs.
Speaker's press conferences 426-427
Transcriptions of press conferences, 1989-1994, in
court reporter format.
Other press files 428
Miscellaneous press releases and announcements received at
the Spokane office during 1989.
9. Media materials
Sound and video recording, along with a few 429-480
motion picture films, all in a variety of formats.
Arranged by date at the Library, without regard
for format.
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