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US. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR
FISCAL YEAR 2020
U.S. SENATE,
SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,
Washington, DC.
[CLERK'S NOTE.-The subcommittee was unable to hold hearings
on departmental and nondepartmental witnesses. The statements
and letters of those submitting written testimony are as follows:]
DEPARTMENTAL WITNESSES
PREPARED STATEMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE
Madam Chairman, Ranking Member Murphy, and Members of the subcommittee,
I am pleased to offer this testimony in support of the appropriations request for the
U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) for fiscal year 2020.
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE
The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), a legislative branch agency, is the
OFFICIAL, DIGITAL, SECURE resource for producing, procuring, cataloging, index-
ing, 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. In 2014, Congress and the President recognized this change
in Public Law 113-235, which contains a provision re-designating GPO's official
name as the Government Publishing Office. As of September 30, 2018, GPO em-
ployed 1,737 staff.
Along with sales of publications in digital and tangible formats to the public, we
support openness and transparency in Government by providing permanent public
access to Federal Government information at no charge through govinfo
(www.govinfo.gov), the successor system to the Federal Digital System (FDsys),
which was retired in December 2018. Today, GPO makes more than 2.5 million Fed-
eral titles available from our servers and through links to other agencies and insti-
tutions, and govinfo, together with its predecessor site FDsys, averaged approxi-
mately 31 million retrievals per month in fiscal year 2018. GPO also provides public
access to Government information through partnerships with 1,125 Federal, aca-
demic, public, law, and other libraries nationwide participating in the Federal De-
pository Library Program (FDLP).
In addition to our newly redesigned website, gpo.gov, we communicate with the
public routinely via Facebook facebook.com/USGPO, Twitter twitter.com/USGPO,
YouTube youtube.com/user/gpoprinter, Instagram instagram.com/usgpo, LinkedIn
linkedin.com/company/u.s.-government-printing-office, and Pinterest 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 reflected that
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