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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR
FISCAL YEAR 2015
U.S. SENATE,
SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,
Washington, DC.
[CLERK'S NOTE.-The subcommittee did not hold formal hearings
for the Government Printing Office and the Office of Compliance.
Following are the statements submitted by them and the answers
to questions submitted to them by the subcommittee:]
DEPARTMENTAL WITNESSES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
PREPARED STATEMENT OF DAVITA VANCE-COOKS, PUBLIC PRINTER
Chairwoman Shaheen, Ranking Member Hoeven, and Members of the Sub-
committee on Legislative Branch Appropriations, I have the honor to submit the ap-
propriations request of the Government Printing Office (GPO) for fiscal year 2015.
As background, my prepared statement provides an overview of GPO's functions and
operations.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
The Government Printing Office (GPO) is the OFFICIAL, DIGITAL, SECURE re-
source for producing, procuring, cataloging, indexing, authenticating, disseminating,
and preserving the official information products of the Federal Government.
Under title 44 of the U.S. Code, GPO is responsible for the production and dis-
tribution of information products for all three branches of the Government, includ-
ing the official publications of Congress and the White House, U.S. passports for the
Department of State, and the official publications of other Federal agencies and the
courts. Once primarily a printing operation, we are now an integrated publishing
operation and carry out our mission using an expanding range of digital as well as
conventional formats. Total GPO employment today is 1,879.
Along with sales of publications in digital and tangible formats to the public, GPO
supports openness and transparency in Government by providing permanent public
access to Federal Government information at no charge through our Federal Digital
System (FDsys, at www.fdsys.gov), which today makes nearly one million Federal
titles available online from both GPO's servers and links to servers in other agen-
cies, and in 2013 averaged 38.7 million downloads per month (with a spike up to
47.5 million retrievals during the recent Government shutdown). There have been
over 1 billion retrievals from this system since it replaced our original Web site,
GPO Access. We also provide public access to Government information through part-
nerships with approximately 1,200 libraries nationwide participating in the Federal
Depository Library Program.
In addition to GPO's Web site, www.gpo.gov, we communicate with the public rou-
tinely via Twitter twitter.com/USGPO, YouTube youtube.com/user/gpoprinter,
Facebook facebook.com/USGPO, our Government Book Blog govbooktalk.gpo.gov,
and most recently Pinterest http://pinterest.com/usgpo/.
History.-From the Mayflower Compact to the Declaration of Independence and
the papers leading to the creation and ratification of the Constitution, America is
a nation based on documents, and our governmental tradition since then has re-
flected that fact. Article I, section 5 of the Constitution requires that each House
shall keep a journal of its proceedings and from time to time publish the same.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.cbhear/fdsysablu0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)