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.
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.
The rules governing document work (FIC & punc.) apply to the Congressional Record, except as may be noted herein. The same general style should be followed in the permanent (bound) Record as is used in the daily Record. It is important to be familiar with the exceptions and the forms peculiar to the Record.
Much of the data printed in the Congressional Record is forwarded to the GPO via fiber optic transmission using the captured keystrokes of the floor reporters. Element identifier codes are programmatically inserted, and galley output is accomplished without manual intervention. It is not cost effective to prepare the accompanying manuscript as per the GPO Style Manual and it is too time-consuming to update and change the data once it is already in type form. Therefore, the Record is to be FIC & punc. It is not necessary to stamp the manuscript FIC & punc. because of its volume. However, Record style, as stated in the following rules, will be followed.
Daily and permanent Record texts are set in 8-point type on a 9-point body. Extracts are set in 7-point type on an 8-point body.
An F-dash will be used preceding 8-point cap lines in the proceedings of the Senate and House.
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