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Congressional Committee Prints: About
Congressional Committee prints are publications issued by Congressional
Committees on topics related to their legislative or research activities.
They are an excellent resource for statistical and historical information,
and for legislative analysis. The subjects of the Committee prints vary
greatly, due to the different concerns and actions of each individual
committee. Some basic varieties of Ccommittee prints include: draft reports
and bills, directories, statistical materials, investigative reports,
historical reports, situational studies, confidential staff reports, hearings,
and legislative analyses.
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").
GPO Access contains congressional committee prints for the 105th
Congress (1997-98) forward. Documents are available in ASCII text and,
in some cases, in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
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