Title 44 — Public Printing and DocumentsRelease 119-73not60
§908 Congressional Record: Payment for Printing Extracts or Other Documents
Title 44 › Chapter 9— CONGRESSIONAL RECORD › § 908
Summary
If a Member or Resident Commissioner doesn't pay for prints they ordered, the GPO Director tells the House or Senate pay officer, who must take it from the person's pay and send it to GPO.
Full Legal Text
Title 44, §908
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If a Member or Resident Commissioner fails to pay the cost of printing extracts from the Congressional Record or other documents ordered by him to be printed, the Director of the Government Publishing Office shall certify the amount due to the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives or the financial clerk of the Senate, as the case may be, who shall deduct from any salary due the delinquent the amount, or as much of it as the salary due may cover, and pay the amount so obtained to the Director of the Government Publishing Office, to be applied by him to the satisfaction of the indebtedness.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 163 (Mar. 4, 1911, ch. 285, § 1, 36 Stat. 1446).
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2014—Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” in two places. 1996—Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives” for “Sergeant at Arms of the House”.
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Citation
44 U.S.C. § 908
Title 44 — Public Printing and Documents
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60