[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2944 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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115th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2944
To limit the printing of the Congressional Record and the Senate
Calendars, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 23, 2018
Mr. Cassidy (for himself, Mr. Jones, and Mrs. McCaskill) introduced the
following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Rules and Administration
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A BILL
To limit the printing of the Congressional Record and the Senate
Calendars, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Preventing Additional Printing of
Electronic Records Act of 2018'' or the ``PAPER Act of 2018''.
SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON PRINTING OF CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.
Section 906 of title 44, United States Code, is amended to read as
follows:
``Sec. 906. Congressional Record: gratuitous copies; delivery
``(a) In General.--The Director of the Government Publishing Office
shall furnish the Congressional Record to an entity named in subsection
(b) during a session of Congress only--
``(1) after the entity makes a request to receive copies
during that session; and
``(2) in accordance with the limitations described in
subsection (b).
``(b) Limitations on Copies.--After an entity makes a request under
subsection (a)(1), the Director of the Government Publishing Office
shall provide copies of the Congressional Record to the entity as
follows:
``(1) Of the bound edition--
``(A) to the Senate Service Department, not more
than 5 copies for the Vice President and each Senator;
``(B) to the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms of the
Senate, each, not more than 2 copies;
``(C) to the Joint Committee on Printing, not more
than 100 hundred copies;
``(D) to the House of Representatives Publications
Distribution Service, not more than 3 copies for each
Representative and Resident Commissioner in Congress;
and
``(E) to the Clerk and the Sergeant at Arms of the
House of Representatives, each, not more than 2 copies.
``(2) Of the daily edition--
``(A) to the Vice President, not more than 100
hundred copies;
``(B) to each Senator, not more than 50 copies
(which may be transferred only to public agencies and
institutions);
``(C) to the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms of the
Senate, each, not more than 25 copies;
``(D) to the Secretary, for official use, not more
than 35 copies;
``(E) to the Sergeant at Arms for use on the floor
of the Senate, not more than 50 copies;
``(F) to each Member of the House of
Representatives, the Resident Commissioner from Puerto
Rico, the Delegate from the District of Columbia, the
Delegate from Guam, and the Delegate from the Virgin
Islands, not more than 34 copies (which may be
transferred only to public agencies and institutions);
``(G) to the Clerk and the Sergeant at Arms of the
House of Representatives, each, not more than 25
copies;
``(H) to the Clerk, for official use, not more than
50 copies, and to the Clerk for use on the floor of the
House of Representatives, not more than 75 copies; and
``(I) to the Vice President and each Senator,
Representative, and Resident Commissioner in Congress
(and not transferable), not more than 3 copies of which
1 may be delivered at his or her residence, 1 at his or
her office, and 1 at the Capitol.
``(3) In unstitched form, and held in reserve by the
Director of the Government Publishing Office, as many copies of
the daily Record as may be required to supply a semimonthly
edition, bound in paper cover together with each semimonthly
index when it is issued, and then delivered promptly upon
request as follows:
``(A) To each committee and commission of Congress,
not more than 1 daily and 1 semimonthly copy.
``(B) To each joint committee and joint commission
in Congress, as may be designated by the Joint
Committee on Printing, not more than 2 copies of the
daily, 1 semimonthly copy, and 1 bound copy.
``(C) To the Secretary and the Sergeant at Arms of
the Senate, for office use, each, not more than 6
semimonthly copies.
``(D) To the Clerk and the Sergeant at Arms of the
House, for office use, each, not more than 6
semimonthly copies.
``(E) To the Joint Committee on Printing, not more
than 10 semimonthly copies.
``(F) To the Vice President and each Senator,
Representative, and Resident Commissioner in Congress,
not more than 1 semimonthly copy.
``(G) To the President of the United States, for
the use of the Executive Office, not more than 10
copies of the daily, 2 semimonthly copies, and 1 bound
copy.
``(H) To the Chief Justice of the United States and
each of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of
the United States, not more than 1 copy of the daily.
``(I) To the offices of the marshal and clerk of
the Supreme Court of the United States, each, not more
than 2 copies of the daily and 1 semimonthly copy.
``(J) To each United States circuit and district
judge, and to the chief judge and each associate judge
of the United States Court of Federal Claims, the
United States Court of International Trade, the Tax
Court of the United States, the United States Court of
Appeals for Veterans Claims, and the United States
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, upon request to
a member of Congress and notification by the Member to
the Director of the Government Publishing Office, not
more than 1 copy of the daily, in addition to those
authorized to be furnished to Members of Congress under
the preceding provisions of this section.
``(K) To the offices of the Vice President and the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, each, not more
than 6 copies of the daily and 1 semimonthly copy.
``(L) To the Sergeant at Arms, the Chaplain, the
Postmaster, the superintendent and the foreman of the
Senate Service Department and of the House of
Representatives Publications Distribution Service,
respectively; and to the Secretaries to the Majority
and the Minority of the Senate, each, not more than 1
copy of the daily.
``(M) To the office of the Parliamentarian of the
House of Representatives, not more than 6 copies of the
daily, 1 semimonthly copy, and 2 bound copies.
``(N) To the offices of the Official Reporters of
Debates of the Senate and House of Representatives,
respectively, each, not more than 15 copies of the
daily, 1 semimonthly copy, and 3 bound copies.
``(O) To the office of the stenographers to
committees of the House of Representatives, not more
than 4 copies of the daily and 1 semimonthly copy.
``(P) To the office of the Congressional Record
Index, not more than 10 copies of the daily and 2
semimonthly copies.
``(Q) To the offices of the superintendent of the
Senate and House document rooms, each, not more than 3
copies of the daily, 1 semimonthly copy, and 1 bound
copy.
``(R) To the offices of the superintendents of the
Senate and House press galleries, each, not more than 2
copies of the daily, 1 semimonthly copy, and 1 bound
copy.
``(S) To the offices of the Legislative Counsel of
the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively,
and the Architect of the Capitol, each, not more than 3
copies of the daily, 1 semimonthly copy, and 1 bound
copy.
``(T) To the Library of Congress for official use
in Washington, District of Columbia, and for
international exchange, as provided by section 1718 and
1719 of this title, not more than 145 copies of the
daily, 5 semimonthly copies, and 150 bound copies.
``(U) To the library of the Senate, not more than 3
copies of the daily, 2 semimonthly copies, and 15 bound
copies.
``(V) To the library of the House of
Representatives, not more than 5 copies of the daily, 2
semimonthly copies, and 28 bound copies, of which 8
copies may be bound in the style and manner approved by
the Joint Committee on Printing.
``(W) To the library of the Supreme Court of the
United States, not more than 2 copies of the daily, 2
semimonthly copies, and 5 bound copies.
``(X) To the library of each United States Court of
Appeals, each United States District Court, the United
States Court of Federal Claims, the United States Court
of International Trade, the Tax Court of the United
States, the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans
Claims, and the United States Court of Appeals for the
Armed Forces, upon request to the Director of the
Government Publishing Office, not more than 1 copy of
the daily, 1 semimonthly copy, and 1 bound copy.
``(Y) To the Director of the Government Publishing
Office for official use, not more than 75 copies of the
daily, 10 semimonthly copies, and 2 bound copies.
``(Z) To the Director of the Botanic Garden, not
more than 2 copies of the daily and 1 semimonthly copy.
``(AA) To the Archivist of the United States, not
more than 5 copies of the daily, 2 semimonthly copies,
and 2 bound copies.
``(BB) To the library of each executive department,
independent office, and establishment of the Government
in the District of Columbia, except those designated as
depository libraries, and to the libraries of the
municipal government of the District of Columbia, the
Naval Observatory, and the Smithsonian Institution,
each, not more than 2 copies of the daily, 1
semimonthly copy, and 1 bound copy.
``(CC) To the offices of the Governors of Puerto
Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands, each, not more than
5 copies in both daily and bound form.
``(DD) To the office of the Governor of the Canal
Zone, not more than 5 copies in both daily and bound
form.
``(EE) To each ex-President and ex-Vice President
of the United States, not more than 1 copy of the
daily.
``(FF) To each former Senator, Representative, and
Commissioner from Puerto Rico, upon request to the
Director of the Government Publishing Office, not more
than 1 copy of the daily.
``(GG) To the Governor of each State, not more than
1 copy in both daily and bound form.
``(HH) To each separate establishment of the Armed
Forces Retirement Home, to each of the National Homes
for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and to each of the
State soldiers' homes, not more than 1 copy of the
daily.
``(II) To the Department of State, not more than
150 copies of the daily, for distribution to each
United States embassy and legation abroad, and to the
principal consular offices in the discretion of the
Secretary of State.
``(JJ) To each foreign legation in Washington whose
government extends a like courtesy to our embassies and
legations abroad, not more than 1 copy of the daily, to
be furnished upon requisition of and sent through the
Secretary of State.
``(KK) To each newspaper correspondent whose name
appears in the Congressional Directory, and who makes
application, for his or her personal use and that of
the papers he or she represents, not more than 1 copy
of the daily and 1 copy of the bound, the same to be
sent to the office address of the member of the press
or elsewhere as he or she directs, and not more than 4
copies in all may be furnished to members of the same
press bureau.
``(c) Daily Edition.--Copies of the daily edition, unless otherwise
directed by the Joint Committee on Printing, shall be supplied and
delivered promptly on the day after the actual day's proceedings as
originally published. Each order for the daily Record shall begin with
the current issue, if previous issues of the same session are not
available. The apportionment specified for daily copies may not be
transferred for the bound form.
``(d) Depository Libraries.--The Director of the Government
Publishing Office shall furnish to the Superintendent of Documents as
many daily and bound copies of the Congressional Record as may be
required for distribution to depository libraries.''.
SEC. 3. OPT-IN TO RECEIVE SENATE CALENDARS.
The Secretary of the Senate shall not provide to the office of a
Senator or a committee or subcommittee of the Senate printed copies of
the Senate Calendar of Business or the Senate Executive Calendar,
unless requested by the office of the Senator or committee or
subcommittee.
SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Act, and the amendment made by this Act, shall take effect on
the date that is 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
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