Congressional Record: arrangement, style, contents, and indexes
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/us/usc/t44/s901
Title
44 — Public Printing and Documents
Chapter
CH9
Release
119-84
Release Date
2026-04-17
Section Text
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The Joint Committee on Printing shall control the arrangement and style of the Congressional Record, and while providing that it shall be substantially a verbatim report of proceedings, shall take all needed action for the reduction of unnecessary bulk. It shall provide for the publication of an index of the Congressional Record semimonthly during and at the close of sessions of Congress.
(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1255.)
Historical and Revision NotesBased on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 181 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 13, 28 Stat. 603).
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