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INFORMATION
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LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR
FISCAL YEAR 2018
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
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appro-
priations, I am pleased to present the appropriations request of the U.S. Govern-
ment Publishing Office (GPO) for fiscal year 2018.
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE
GPO is the OFFICIAL, DIGITAL, SECURE resource for producing, procuring, cat-
aloging, indexing, authenticating, disseminating, and preserving the official informa-
tion 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. We currently employ about 1,700 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 our Federal Digital
System (FDsys, at www.fdsys.gov) and its newly introduced successor system
govinfo (www.govinfo.gov). Today these systems make more than 1.6 million Federal
titles available online from both GPO and links to servers in other agencies. In 2016
FDsys averaged nearly 40 million retrievals per month. We also provide public ac-
cess to Government information through partnerships with 1,148 Federal, academic,
public, law, and other libraries nationwide participating in the Federal Depository
Library Program (FDLP).
In addition to GPO's Web site, 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/com-
pany/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
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. After years
of struggling with various systems of contracting for printed documents that were
beset with scandal and corruption, in 1860 Congress created the Government Print-
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