§910 — Title 44 Public Printing and Documents | U.S. Code

Summary

Under the Joint Committee, the Director of the Government Publishing Office may sell subscriptions to the daily Record and sell current or bound copies of the Congressional Record. Prices must cover printing and delivery and be paid in advance; the money goes into the Treasury and is reported to Congress. The Congressional Record gets the same postage rates as newspapers and other periodicals with paid subscribers.

Title 44, §910

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(a)Under the direction of the Joint Committee, the Director of the Government Publishing Office may sell—

(1)subscriptions to the daily Record; and

(2)current, individual numbers, and bound sets of the Congressional Record.

(b)The price of a subscription to the daily Record and of current, individual numbers, and bound sets shall be determined by the Director of the Government Publishing Office based upon the cost of printing and distribution. Any such price shall be paid in advance. The money from any such sale shall be paid into the Treasury and accounted for in the Public Printer’s 11 So in original. Probably should be “Director of the Government Publishing Office’s”. annual report to Congress.

(c)The Congressional Record shall be entitled to be mailed at the same rates of postage at which any newspaper or other periodical publication, with a legitimate list of paid subscribers, is entitled to be mailed.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 188 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 40, 28 Stat. 607).

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2014—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer”. 1974—Pub. L. 93–314 included subscriptions and postage rate in section catchline, and inserted provisions in text authorizing sale of subscriptions, requiring price for subscriptions to be paid in advance, and directing that the Congressional Record shall be entitled to be mailed at the same rates of postage at which any newspaper or other periodical publication, with a legitimate list of paid subscribers, is entitled to be mailed.

§910 Congressional Record: subscriptions; sale of current, individual numbers, and bound sets; postage rate