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B-276953 1 (1997-06-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabizj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G AO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-276953 June 6, 1997 The Honorable John Warner Chairman Committee on Rules and Administration United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: This responds to your letter of April 16, 1997, requesting our suggestions concerning a draft bill entitled the Government Printing Office Act of 1997. We commend this effort to resolve a number of concerns about government printing and public access to government information, including questions about the constitutionality of the current law. As discussed below, we support transfer of the Government Printing Office (GPO) to the executive branch as provided in Title II. However, we believe that, while the draft bill would resolve the constitutional separation of powers issue concerning legislative branch control over executive branch printing, the bill would raise an issue of executive branch control over printing for the judicial and legislative branches. One way to resolve this potential problem would be to provide that the government's printing needs could be fulfilled elsewhere whenever it was advantageous to do so. Ending GPO's monopoly over federal government printing in this manner could have the added benefit of enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of GPO's operations. We discuss below our views on two broader issues raised by the draft bill: the question of control of legislative and judicial printing by GPO as an executive branch agency and questions about GPO's printing monopoly. Also, we will be providing your staff with a separate list of some specific provisions that are unclear and suggested language changes to help clarify them where we can do so. Over the past several years, officials in the executive branch have issued a number of opinions challenging the constitutionality of the provisions set forth in 44 U.S.C. § 501 and section 207(a) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1993, 112666

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