GPO and Library of Congress to Digitize Historic Documents

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and Library of Congress (LOC) are collaborating to digitize some of the nation’s most important legal and legislative documents after receiving approval from the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP).

The digitization project will include the public and private laws, and proposed constitutional amendments passed by Congress as published in the official Statutes at Large from 1951 to 2002. GPO and LOC also will work on digitizing official debates of Congress from the permanent volumes of the Congressional Record from 1873 to 1998. These laws and documents will be authenticated and available to the public on GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) and the LOC’s THOMAS legislative information system.