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Title 1, General ProvisionsRelease 119-102

§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

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

In addition to the regular copies required under section 210, when the District of Columbia Code and its official supplements are published, ten bound copies of each must be printed for every Member of the Senate and House of Representatives in the Congress when the publication is authorized. The books must include tables, an index, and handy features like thumb inserts or tabs to make them easy to use. The House and Senate Judiciary Committees must each receive bound copies equal to ten times the number of members on that committee. Every other House and Senate committee gets one bound copy of each.

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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.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

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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Citation

1 U.S.C. § 211

Title 1, General Provisions

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102