Laws and Rules for Publication of the Congressional Record CODE OF LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES Title 44, Section 901. Congressional Record: Arrangement, style, contents, and indexes.--The Joint Committee on Printing shall control the arrangement and style of the Congressional Record, and while providing that it shall be substantially a verbatim report of proceedings, shall take all needed action for the reduction of unnecessary bulk. It shall provide for the publication of an index of the Congressional Record semimonthly during and at the close of sessions of Congress. (Oct. 22, 1968, c. 9, 82 Stat. 1255.) Title 44, Section 904. Congressional Record: Maps; diagrams; illustrations.--Maps, diagrams, or illustrations may not be inserted in the Record without the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing. (Oct. 22, 1968, c. 9, 82 Stat. 1256.) ________________ To provide for the prompt publication and delivery of the Congressional Record the Joint Committee on Printing has adopted the following rules, to which the attention of Senators, Representatives, and Delegates is respectfully invited: 1. Arrangement of the daily Congressional Record.--The Director shall arrange the contents of the daily Congressional Record as follows: The Senate proceedings shall alternate with the House proceedings in order of placement in consecutive issues insofar as such an arrangement is feasible, and Extensions of Remarks and Daily Digest shall follow: Provided, That the makeup of the Congressional Record shall proceed without regard to alternation whenever the Director deems it necessary in order to meet production and delivery schedules. 2. Type and style.--The Director shall print the report of the proceedings and debates of the Senate and House of Representatives, as furnished by the official reporters of the Congressional Record, in 8-point type; and all matter included in the remarks or speeches of Members of Congress, other than their own words, and all reports, documents, and other matter authorized to be inserted in the Congressional Record shall be printed in 7-point type; and all rollcalls shall be printed in 6-point type. No italic or black type nor words in capitals or small capitals shall be used for emphasis or prominence; nor will unusual indentions be permitted. These restrictions do not apply to the printing of or quotations from historical, official, or legal documents or papers of which a literal reproduction is necessary. 3. Only as an aid in distinguishing the manner of delivery in order to contribute to the historical accuracy of the Record, statements or insertions in the Record where no part of them was spoken will be preceded and followed by a ``bullet'' symbol, i.e., . 4. Return of manuscript.--When manuscript is submitted to Members for revision it should be returned to the Government Publishing Office not later than 9 o'clock p.m. in order to insure publication in the Congressional Record issued on the following morning; and if all of the manuscript is not furnished at the time specified, the Director is authorized to withhold it from the Congressional Record for 1 day. In no case will a speech be printed in the Congressional Record of the day of its delivery if the manuscript is furnished later than 12 o'clock midnight. 5. Tabular matter.--The manuscript of speeches containing tabular statements to be published in the Congressional Record shall be in the hands of the Director not later than 7 o'clock p.m., to insure publication the following morning. When possible, manuscript copy for tabular matter should be sent to the Government Publishing Office 2 or more days in advance of the date of publication in the Congressional Record. Proof will be furnished promptly to the Member of Congress to be submitted by him instead of manuscript copy when he offers it for publication in the Congressional Record. 6. Proof furnished.--Proofs or ``leave to print'' and advance speeches will not be furnished the day the manuscript is received but will be submitted the following day, whenever possible to do so without causing delay in the publication of the regular proceedings of Congress. Advance speeches shall be set in the Congressional Record style of type, and not more than six sets of proofs may be furnished to Members without charge. 7. Notation of withheld remarks.--If manuscript or proofs have not been returned in time for publication in the proceedings, the Director will insert the words ``Mr. ---- addressed the Senate (House or Committee). His remarks will appear hereafter in Extensions of Remarks'' and proceed with the printing of the Congressional Record. 8. Thirty-day limit.--The Director shall not publish in the Congressional Record any speech or extension of remarks which has been withheld for a period exceeding 30 calendar days from the date when its printing was authorized: Provided, That at the expiration of each session of Congress the time limit herein fixed shall be 10 days, unless otherwise ordered by the committee. 9. Corrections.--The permanent Congressional Record is made up for printing and binding 30 days after each daily publication is issued; therefore all corrections must be sent to the Director within that time: Provided, That upon the final adjournment of each session of Congress the time limit shall be 10 days, unless otherwise ordered by the committee: Provided further, That no Member of Congress shall be entitled to make more than one revision. Any revision shall consist only of corrections of the original copy and shall not include deletions of correct material, substitutions for correct material, or additions of new subject matter. 10. The Director shall not publish in the Congressional Record the full report or print of any committee or subcommittee when the report or print has been previously printed. This rule shall not be construed to apply to conference reports. However, inasmuch as House of Representatives Rule XXVIII, Section 912, provides that conference reports be printed in the daily edition of the Congressional Record, they shall not be printed therein a second time. 11. Makeup of the Extensions of Remarks.--Extensions of Remarks in the Congressional Record shall be made up by successively taking first an extension from the copy submitted by the official reporters of one House and then an extension from the copy of the other House, so that Senate and House extensions appear alternately as far as possible. The sequence for each House shall follow as closely as possible the order or arrangement in which the copy comes from the official reporters of the respective Houses. The official reporters of each House shall designate and distinctly mark the lead item among their extensions. When both Houses are in session and submit extensions, the lead item shall be changed from one House to the other in alternate issues, with the indicated lead item of the other House appearing in second place. When only one House is in session, the lead item shall be an extension submitted by a Member of the House in session. This rule shall not apply to Congressional Records printed after the sine die adjournment of the Congress. 12. Official reporters.--The official reporters of each House shall indicate on the manuscript and prepare headings for all matter to be printed in Extensions of Remarks and shall make suitable reference thereto at the proper place in the proceedings. 13. Two-page rule--Cost estimate from Director.--(1) No extraneous matter in excess of two printed Record pages, whether printed in its entirety in one daily issue or in two or more parts in one or more issues, shall be printed in the Congressional Record unless the Member announces, coincident with the request for leave to print or extend, the estimate in writing from the Director of the probable cost of publishing the same. (2) No extraneous matter shall be printed in the House proceedings or the Senate proceedings, with the following exceptions: (a) Excerpts from letters, telegrams, or articles presented in connection with a speech delivered in the course of debate; (b) communications from State legislatures; (c) addresses or articles by the President and the Members of his Cabinet, the Vice President, or a Member of Congress. (3) The official reporters of the House or Senate or the Director shall return to the Member of the respective House any matter submitted for the Congressional Record which is in contravention of these provisions. ________________ Senate Supplement to ``Laws and Rules for Publication of the Congressional Record''--Effective February 10, 1970 1. Statements brought to the Chamber for insertion in the body of the Record will be accepted at the desk by the Legislative Clerk when presented only by a Senator himself. The statements will be reviewed by the Parliamentarian and the Chief of Official Reporters of the Senate for compliance with the rules and traditions of the Senate. 2. All such statements will thereafter be printed in the body of the Record, but shall first be gathered editorially by the Chief of Official Reporters in that section of the daily Congressional Record normally reserved for the transaction of morning business under a separate heading, ``Additional Statements.'' 3. Statements may be printed at other locations in the Record only when, in accordance with the editorial judgment of the Chief of Official Reporters, it is essential to do so in the interest of continuity and germaneness. 4. Statements which may be presented at the desk so late in the day as to have no sequential relationship to the morning business, shall be held over for the next day's printing, on advice to the presenting Senator, or alternatively go, with his consent, into the ``Extensions of Remarks'' section of the Record. 5. All statements accepted under paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive, shall be printed in 8-point type, except those parts which, while intrinsic, are insertions of themselves, such as editorials, letters and telegrams, newspaper and magazine articles, statistics, citations, quotations, speeches, and other papers. These shall continue to be printed in 7-point type. ________________ House Supplement to ``Laws and Rules for Publication of the Congressional Record''--Effective August 12, 1986 1. Extensions of Remarks in the daily Congressional Record.--When the House has granted leave to print (1) a newspaper or magazine article, or (2) any other matter not germane to the proceedings, it shall be published under Extensions of Remarks. This rule shall not apply to quotations which form part of a speech of a Member, or to an authorized extension of his own remarks: Provided, That no address, speech, or article delivered or released subsequently to the sine die adjournment of a session of Congress may be printed in the Congressional Record. One- minute speeches delivered during the morning business of Congress shall not exceed 300 words. Statements exceeding this will be printed following the business of the day. 2. Any extraneous matter included in any statement by a Member, either under the 1-minute rule or permission granted to extend at this point, will be printed in the ``Extensions of Remarks'' section, and that such material will be duly noted in the Member's statement as appearing therein. 3. Under the general leave request by the floor manager of specific legislation only matter pertaining to such legislation will be included as per the request. This, of course, will include tables and charts pertinent to the same, but not newspaper clippings and editorials. 4. In the makeup of the portion of the Record entitled ``Extensions of Remarks,'' the Director shall withhold any Extensions of Remarks which exceed economical press fill or exceed production limitations. Extensions withheld for such reasons will be printed in succeeding issues, at the direction of the Director, so that more uniform daily issues may be the end result and, in this way, when both Houses have a short session the makeup would be in a sense made easier so as to comply with daily proceedings, which might run extremely heavy at times. 5. The request for a Member to extend his or her remarks in the body of the Record must be granted to the individual whose remarks are to be inserted. 6. All statements for ``Extensions of Remarks,'' as well as copy for the body of the Congressional Record must be submitted on the Floor of the House to the Official Reporters of Debates and must carry the actual signature of the Member. Extensions of Remarks will be accepted up to 15 minutes after adjournment of the House. To insure printing in that day's proceedings, debate transcript still out for revision must be returned to the Office of Official Reporters of Debates, Room HT-59, the Capitol, (1) by 5 p.m., or 2 hours following adjournment, whichever occurs later; or (2) within 30 minutes following adjournment when the House adjourns at 11 p.m., or later. 7. Pursuant to clause 9 of Rule XIV of the Rules of the House, the Congressional Record shall be a substantially verbatim account of remarks made during the proceedings of the House, subject only to technical, grammatical and typographical corrections authorized by the Member making the remarks involved. Unparliamentary remarks may be deleted only by permission or order of the House. Consistent with Rule 9 of the Joint Committee on Printing Rules, any revision shall consist only of technical, grammatical or typographical corrections of the original copy and shall not include deletions of correct material, substitutions for correct material or additions of new subject matter. By obtaining unanimous consent to revise and extend, a Member will be able to relax the otherwise strict prohibition contained in clause 9 of Rule XIV only in two respects: (1) to revise by technical, grammatical and typographical corrections; and (2) to extend remarks in a distinctive type style to follow the remarks actually uttered. In no event would the actually uttered remarks be removable.