Title 1 — General ProvisionsRelease 119-73not60
§211 Copies to Members of Congress
Title 1 › Chapter 3— CODE OF LAWS OF UNITED STATES AND SUPPLEMENTS; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CODE AND SUPPLEMENTS › § 211
Summary
Print, bind, and distribute copies of the District of Columbia laws and their supplements, with tables, an index, and thumb tabs to mark the parts. Give ten copies of each to every Senator and Representative in the Congress when the original printing is made. Give each House and Senate Judiciary Committee bound copies equal to ten times its number of members. Give one bound copy to every committee in both the House and Senate.
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Title 1, §211
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In addition to quotas provided for by section 210 of this title there shall be printed, published, and distributed of the Code of Laws relating to the District of Columbia with tables, index, and other ancillaries, suitably bound and with thumb inserts and other convenient devices to distinguish the parts, and of the supplements to both codes as provided for by section 202, 203 of this title, ten copies of each for each Member of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Congress in which the original authorized publication is made, for his use and distribution, and in addition for the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a number of bound copies of each equal to ten times the number of members of such committees, and one bound copy of each for the use of each committee of the Senate and House of Representatives.
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Limitation on Copies of New Editions for House of Representatives Pub. L. 92–342, § 101,
July 10, 1972, 86 Stat. 447, provided that: “Hereafter, appropriations for authorized printing and binding for the Congress shall not be available under the authority of the Act of
July 30, 1947 (1 U.S.C. 211) for the printing, publication, and distribution of more than two copies of new editions of the Code of Laws of the United States and of the Code of the District of Columbia for each Member of the House of Representatives.” Written Requests for DocumentsCopies of District of Columbia Code and Supplements not available to Senators or Representatives unless specifically requested by them, in writing, see Pub. L. 94–59, title VIII, § 801,
July 25, 1975, 89 Stat. 296, set out as a note under section 1317 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents.
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1 U.S.C. § 211
Title 1 — General Provisions
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Apr 3, 2026
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