Message on Senate action sent to the House.
This resolution authorizes printing of three specific documents and sets how many copies may be produced, cost limits, and how the copies are distributed between the House, the Senate, and the Joint Committee on Printing. It directs the Joint Committee on Printing to print revised editions prepared under the direction of the House and Senate parliamentarians. The provision guarantees at least one copy per Member and limits total production either by a fixed number of copies or by a dollar cost cap for each document.
As a concurrent resolution, it was agreed to by both the House and the Senate but is not submitted to the President and does not have the force of law beyond directing congressional printing. Its effect is limited to authorizing and funding the printing and distribution of the specified congressional documents.
This concurrent resolution authorizes printing three documents as House documents under the Joint Committee on Printing: a revised brochure titled "How Our Laws Are Made," a 2007 document-sized annotated U.S. Constitution, and the 23rd edition pocket Constitution.
For each title it authorizes up to 550,000 copies (allocated 440,000 House, 100,000 Senate, 10,000 Joint Committee) or a lower number limited by specified total production costs, and requires at least one copy per Member of Congress.
Specific cost caps are $479,247 for the brochure, $535,853 for the annotated Constitution, and $188,462 for the pocket Constitution.
Very narrow, low-cost, administrative measure with few political faultlines and explicit fiscal limits.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this concurrent resolution is a well-specified administrative directive that authorizes and constrains printing of three specified documents by naming responsible parties, editions, distribution, and concrete quantity/cost limits.
Debate centers on printing costs and potential waste
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Debate centers on printing costs and potential waste
Likely broadly supportive as a civic-education measure expanding public access to constitutional texts and legislative process information.
May press for ensuring accessibility, translations, and digital distribution to reach underserved communities.
Some concern about paper waste and whether large print runs are the best use of funds.
Generally supportive on pragmatic grounds: printing civic materials is routine and has modest cost.
Will seek assurances on cost-effectiveness, nonduplication with existing materials, and prudent print quantities.
Likely to favor small process safeguards rather than opposing the resolution.
Likely supportive because it promotes the Constitution and civic literacy at relatively low taxpayer cost.
May emphasize the benefit of distributing pocket Constitutions and the brochure to citizens and Members.
Could raise minor objections about any perceived partisanship in annotations or reluctance to fund printing at all.
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Very narrow, low-cost, administrative measure with few political faultlines and explicit fiscal limits.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Debate centers on printing costs and potential waste
Very narrow, low-cost, administrative measure with few political faultlines and explicit fiscal limits.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this concurrent resolution is a well-specified administrative directive that authorizes and constrains printing of three specified documents by naming responsible parties, edit…
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