Title 2, The CongressRelease 119-102

§168b Printing and Distribution of Additional Copies of Constitution Annotated

Title 2 › CHAPTER 5 — LIBRARY OF CONGRESS › § 168b

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Print 4,870 extra hardback copies of the revised edition and all pocket-part supplements. Of those, 2,634 copies go to the House of Representatives, 1,236 go to the Senate, and 1,000 go to the Joint Committee on Printing. Members of Congress, Vice Presidents, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners who are newly elected after that hardback came out and before the next ten-year hardback, and who did not get a copy, can ask in time for one hardback and the current pocket-part plus any later supplements. Those who left office after the hardback came out and who did get the hardback may ask in time for one copy of each pocket-part supplement.

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Title 2, §168b

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There shall be printed four thousand eight hundred and seventy additional copies of the hardbound revised editions prepared pursuant to clause (1) of section 168 of this title and of all cumulative pocket-part supplements thereto, of which two thousand six hundred and thirty-four copies shall be for the use of the House of Representatives, one thousand two hundred and thirty-six copies shall be for the use of the Senate, and one thousand copies shall be for the use of the Joint Committee on Printing. All Members of the Congress, Vice Presidents of the United States, and Delegates and Resident Commissioners, newly elected subsequent to the issuance of the hardbound revised edition prepared pursuant to such clause and prior to the first hardbound decennial revised edition, who did not receive a copy of the edition prepared pursuant to such clause, shall, upon timely request, receive one copy of such edition and the then current cumulative pocket-part supplement and any further supplements thereto. All Members of the Congress, Vice Presidents of the United States, and Delegates and Resident Commissioners, no longer serving after the issuance of the hardbound revised edition prepared pursuant to such clause and who received such edition, may receive one copy of each cumulative pocket-part supplement thereto upon timely request.

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2 U.S.C. § 168b

Title 2, The Congress

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102