Archive of Legislation Related Articles

Will the Administration's Freedom to Manage initiative and Senate Bill S.1613 Make GPO Optional?  If so, How Will Printers Get Access to Job Opportunities?  (January, 2002)

OMB Testimony before House Rules Committee

House Rules Committee Hearing

 

PIA Hill Testimony on GPO (4-28-04)

 

HR 1577 Would make UNICOR Compete with Printers for Federal Agency Printing  
(June 18, 2001)

HR 1577

 

GPO Funding for FY 2001

GPO Dodges Another Bullet  (August 3, 2000) 

Latest Leg Branch Appropriations Bills: 

      House Bill         Senate Bill

House & Senate Bills Limit GPO Funding (5-25-2000) 
Excerpts from Original House Bill
Excerpts from Original Senate Bill
           
GPO Analysis of House Leg Branch Bill

           
Warner Amendment Would Require Study and Plans to 
Outsource DAPS Work

Government Printing Reform Bill Considered in Senate

S.2288 died.  Neither the House or Senate seems interested in any government printing and publishing reform - whether it confirms GPO's mandatory role - or makes GPO optional.

S.2288 (Wendell H. Ford Government Publications Act of 1998) To provide for the reform and continuing legislative oversight of the production, procurement, dissemination, and permanent public access of the Government's publications, and for other... (Introduced in the Senate)     FULL TEXT OF BILL (pdf Format)

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STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS
introducing s.2288  (Senate - July 10, 1998)
by Senator John Warner

Statement by BENJAMIN COOPER of the PRINTING INDUSTRIES OF AMERICA, INC. on S. 2288 THE WENDELL H. FORD GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION REFORM ACT OF 1998 before the COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION of THE UNITED STATES SENATE  -  JULY 29, 1998

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WARNER (AND SANTORUM) AMENDMENT NO. 3031 (Senate - June 25, 1998)
SPONSOR: Sen Warner, (introduced 06/25/98)
To modify the requirements relating to reports on the transferability of functions of the Defense Automated Printing Service.
amendment to:

NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999
S.2057      (Major Legislation)
SPONSOR: Sen Thurmond (introduced 05/11/98)
An original bill to authorize appropriations for the fiscal year 1999 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

MEMORANDUM EXPLAINING AMENDMENT NO. 3031
by Fred Antoun, Jr. , Esq.