§719 Classification and Numbering of Publications Ordered Printed by Congress; Designation of Publications of Departments; Printing of Committee Hearings

Summary

Congress puts printed works it orders into four groups: Senate reports (Senate committee reports), House reports (House committee reports), Senate documents (non-report items ordered by the Senate), and House documents (non-report items ordered by the House). Each group gets consecutive numbers that run without break for a full Congress. That numbering does not apply to papers printed for the Senate’s executive session. Copies called the "usual number" that go to State libraries and other official depositories of annual or serial executive-branch publications must not use House or Senate series numbers. Those copies must be titled and bound as section 738 requires, and any departmental edition must be printed at the same time. Committee hearings may be printed as congressional documents only when Congress or either House orders them.