Microfiche for Depository Libraries and International Exchange (not included above). 898 1 The by-law distribution has been combined in conformance with our request for a combined Congressional Printing and Binding Appropriation. Question. How many Bound Records have been deferred? For which years? Does this effect the Bound editions normally done in microfiche? Response. Congress has not provided funding for the 1986 and 1987 Bound Records, but has directed GPO to work on them, when necessary, using other available funds. Microfiche of a publication cannot be produced until the composition page makeup process is complete. Therefore, microfiche of these Bound Records will be provided upon completion of the composition page makeup of each part. Question. When was the last Bound Record distributed? For what year? What is the status of each Bound Record subsequent to the last one distributed? Response. The last Bound Record completely distributed was for the 96th Congress 2d Session (1980). The 1981 Bound Record has been completed and delivered with the exception of the Index which we hope to complete in the very near future. The 1982 Bound Record has 24 volumes. Complete delivery has been made on parts 1 through 6 and 9 through 12. Partial delivery has been made on parts 7 and 8. Parts 13, 14, and 15 are ready to deliver. Parts 16, 17, and 18 are in various stages of press and binding production. The remaining six books are in various stages of composition production. The Index is in various stages of EPD Production. The 1983 Bound Record has 26 volumes. Four of these are in composition production. The remaining 22 are being prepared for corrections. The Index has not been started. The 1984 Bound Record has 26 volumes. All of these are being prepared for corrections. The Index has not been started. The 1985 Bound Record has approximately 27 volumes. Sixteen of these are in various stages of press and binding production. Eleven are in various stages of the EPD production process. The Index has not been started. The 1986 Bound Record has approximately 24 volumes. We should begin production on the 1986 Bound Record in the near future. Question. How much has been saved by deferring the Bound Records? Response. Funding for the Bound Records has been deferred. However, Congress has directed GPO to work on them, when necessary, using available funds. Therefore, there are no cost savings. Question. When will we begin noticing the unavailability of the deferred Bound editions? What hardships will that create for prospective recipients (if any)? Any further comment on the Bound Record Program? Response. Since Congress has directed GPO to work on the Bound Records, for which they deferred the funding, using other available funds, GPO intends to produce these publications. However, it may become necessary to request additional funding. If GPO had been directed to stop work on the Bound Records, the people who had received them in the past would be dissatisfied. The permanent edition of the Congressional Record is considered an essential publication to the mission of Congress. Based on our most recent data on billings and outstanding obligations it appears that we will have sufficient funds available for the Congressional Printing and Binding copies of the 1986 Bound Record. However, there is not enough remaining funds in the FY 86 Printing and Binding Appropriation to cover its portion of the cost of the Bound Record. Although it is difficult to forecast Congressional workload precisely, based on our estimated requirements for FY 87 there will not be sufficient funds available in neither the Congressional Printing and Binding Appropriation nor the Printing and Binding Appropriation to complete the 1987 Bound Record. However, we will begin work on this publication as necessary, using other available funds. Sometimes there is a time span of two or more years from the receipt of a printing and binding order to the delivery of the order. Given this time span it may be possible to complete delivery of the Bound Record before all of the orders are completed, thereby using the funds obligated for those orders to fund the Bound Record. The remaining outstanding orders for that year would be funded from a supplemental or from subsequent years' funding. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Question. Provide the traditional table on the daily Record program. Comparison of Authorized to Actual Distribution and Payment of the Daily Recipient and number authorized: Bylaw copies paid for by the Congressional Printing and Binding and by House Members, 2 each (880)..... Senators and Vice President, 2 each (202). Congressional committees, JCP requisitions and bylaw House constituents, 25 per Member (11,000). Senate constituents, 37 per Senator (3,700). Ex-Members of Congress, 1 each.. Correspondents, 1 each. Government Printing Office, 75.. Independent Agencies, 2 each Government Agencies, various. Subtotal...... Copies paid for by others: Depository Libraries, as requested (1,394).. Government Agencies, by requisition...... Superintendent of Documents, by requisition.. Subtotal.. Total Number of copies 680 202 2,254 7,842 3,178 179 210 42 39 174 36 14,836 933 2,790 2,778 6,501 21,337 The by-law distribution has been combined in conformance with our request for a combined Congressional Printing and Binding Appropriation. MISCELLANEOUS PRINTING AND BINDING Mr. FAZIO. There are a number of things we would like to speak to you about. One sticking point with us is under the miscellaneous printing supplies area, an estimated $9.4 million is indicated to be necessary for miscellaneous printing and binding. Much of this is for letterheads, envelopes, blank paper, and so forth. Who are the primary recipients of this material? If we could, we would like a list. Mr. CANNON. For the record? Mr. FAZIO. For the record, but publicly if you could. Mr. CANNON. For blank paper, about $2.2 million, $1.8 million of that was for the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate. $192,000 was for the Secretary of the Senate; and $62,000 for the Clerk of the House. They were the three primary users. Mr. FAZIO. $62,000 to the Clerk of the House? Mr. CANNON. A total of $63,349 for the entire House, and $2,118,441 for the Senate. Mr. FAZIO. That is what rang my bell. We have been taking a good deal of rhetorical heat from some of our colleagues on the other side about the franking privilege and the ways in which it is used in both bodies. As it turned out we each made sizeable, but equivalent reductions in the use of the frank last year. We believe the data shows the House did a little better than did the Senate. We hear about buried items in other budgets in the legislative branch. This area might be a source of funding for the Senate's franked mailing program. Would you want to speak to that? I guess I am wondering how it happens. We have GrammRudman limits, we go through extensive hearings, and tie ourselves in knots trying to comply to fiscal constraints. The Senate seems to say, in very brief hearings, no problem. I can begin to understand why when I see this type of funding. How did these Senate supplies get into the budget of GPO? Mr. CANNON. They submit legitimate requisitions for us to furnish blank paper to them. Mr. FAZIO. Why doesn't the House do that? Mr. CANNON. The House requires their committees to go to the House Stationery Room to meet their needs for blank paper. Mr. FAZIO. It is paid from the House budget? Mr. MORRIS. The Senate has a service department. Their newsletters are produced there. The House does not have that. You have a minority and majority printer. We do not supply them at all. You pay them when you go to them. Mr. FAZIO. Do you think most of these supplies are used for similar purposes? Mr. CANNON. This figure we are talking about, Mr. Chairman, is only for blank paper. It does not include envelopes. Mr. FAZIO. How much more would it be if we were to total up everything that is probably used in the Senate's mailing program? I would like to have it. It seems we may need to reconcile that. Mr. CANNON. Blank paper furnished the Secretary of the Senate was $2.9 million two years ago; went down to $2.5 million last year, in fiscal 1985, and in 1986 it is down to $1.9 million. It has been decreasing. Mr. MORRIS. In a meeting with the Senate staff on putting pictures of missing children on their official mail, they quoted a figure of 87 percent of their official mail goes through the service department. GPO does not touch it. Mr. FAZIO. So it is the other 13 percent. Mr. MORRIS. Yes, sir. Mr. FAZIO. I will place a question in the record that you can respond to later. [The question and response follows:] MISCELLANEOUS PRINTING SUPPLIES Question. You estimate $9,420,000 will be necessary for miscellanous printing and binding. Much of this is for letterheads, envelopes, blank paper, and so forth. Who are the primary recipients of this material? (Give us a list.) Response. The list follows: |