﻿ About Congressional Committee Prints


About Congressional Committee Prints



The prints are generally viewed as internal background information publications and often are not announced for public distribution. Procedures for the printing and publication of these prints differ with each committee, and formats are inconsistent. Few prints have been allocated serial numbers, but most have not. The individual committee prints are not a part of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, because those documents come from the Senate and the House of Representatives as a whole.


Committee prints do not have a consistent numbering system or publication history, the reason being that these papers are printed copies of committee members' work. The Senate has a numbering system for its committee prints, but the House does not (e.g. "S. Prt. 108-3").


FDsys contains congressional committee prints for the 104th Congress (1997-98) forward. Documents are available in ASCII text and, in some cases, in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

