Today, we reach another milestone in the Senate's continually unfolding history. Let us pause for a minute to reflect on a fiftieth anniversary of great institutional significance. On March 17, 1947, for the first time, the Congressional Record carried a section under the modest heading 'Daily Digest.'... By the mid-1940's the Record had become so thick that without some sort of daily finding aid, it was becoming practically unusable.
Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Daily Digest section in the Congressional Record.
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