§28c — Title 2 The Congress | U.S. Code

Summary

The Director of the Government Publishing Office must give one set of the Precedents to every Senator, Representative, Delegate, and Resident Commissioner in the 95th Congress. The name of the Member must be clearly stamped on the front cover of each volume. For later Congresses, any Member who has not already gotten a set can receive one by sending a written request to the Superintendent of Documents. The Director must also send specific extra sets to offices and institutions: five sets each to the Vice President’s office, the Speaker’s office, and the President pro tempore’s office; three sets each to the House majority and minority leaders; 60 sets to the House Parliamentarian and five to the Senate Parliamentarian; two sets each to the House Clerk, House Sergeant at Arms, Senate Secretary, Senate Sergeant at Arms, and the House and Senate document room superintendents; 150 sets to the Library of Congress for official use and international exchange; three to the National Archives; 12 to the District of Columbia government; two to the Smithsonian; one to each state, territory, and possession legislative library; and 816 sets to the Superintendent of Documents for the depository library system.

Title 2, §28c

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(a)The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall deliver one set of the Precedents to each Senator or Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Ninety-fifth Congress. The name of the Member to whom the set is delivered shall be legibly stamped on the front cover of each volume of the set.

(b)Each Senator or Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, each Congress following the Ninety-fifth Congress who has not theretofore received a set of the Precedents shall be entitled to receive one set of the Precedents, upon transmitting a written request for such set to the Superintendent of Documents.

(c)The Director of the Government Publishing Office shall make the following distribution of sets of the Precedents:

(1)to the office of the Vice President, to the office of the speaker of the House of Representatives, and to the office of the President pro tempore of the Senate, each, five sets;

(2)to the office of the majority leader of the House of Representatives and to the office of the minority leader of the House of Representatives, each, three sets;

(3)to the Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives, sixty sets;

(4)to the Parliamentarian of the Senate, five sets;

(5)to the Clerk of the House of Representatives and to the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives, each 11 So in original. Probably should be followed by a comma. two sets;

(6)to the Secretary of the Senate and to the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, each, two sets;

(7)to the superintendent of the House document room, two sets;

(8)to the superintendent of the Senate document room, two sets;

(9)to the Library of Congress, for international exchange and for official use in Washington, District of Columbia, one hundred and fifty sets;

(10)to the National Archives, three sets;

(11)to the government of the District of Columbia, twelve sets;

(12)to the Smithsonian Institute, two sets;

(13)to the library of each legislative branch of each State, territory, and possession of the United States, one set; and

(14)to the Superintendent of Documents, eight hundred and sixteen sets for distribution to the depository library system.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1996—Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 104–186, § 202(3)(A), substituted “Representatives, each” for “Representives, each”. Subsec. (c)(5). Pub. L. 104–186, § 202(3)(B), substituted “and to the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives, each two sets” for “, to the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives, and to the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, each, two sets”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Director of the Government Publishing Office” substituted for “Public Printer” in subsecs. (a) and (c) on authority of section 1301(d) of Pub. L. 113–235, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents. Substitution was also made in section catchline that had been supplied editorially.

§28c Distribution of Precedents by Director of the Government Publishing Office