1 USC § 211 - Copies to Members of Congress

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title: "1 USC § 211 - Copies to Members of Congress"
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title_name: "GENERAL PROVISIONS"
section_number: "211"
section_name: "Copies to Members of Congress"
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chapter_name: "CODE OF LAWS OF UNITED STATES AND SUPPLEMENTS; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CODE AND SUPPLEMENTS"
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source_credit: "(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.)"
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# § 211. Copies to Members of Congress

section 210 of this title

In addition to quotas provided for by  there shall be printed, published, and distributed of the Code of Laws relating to the District of Columbia with tables, index, and other ancillaries, suitably bound and with thumb inserts and other convenient devices to distinguish the parts, and of the supplements to both codes as provided for by sections 202, 203 of this title, ten copies of each for each Member of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Congress in which the original authorized publication is made, for his use and distribution, and in addition for the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a number of bound copies of each equal to ten times the number of members of such committees, and one bound copy of each for the use of each committee of the Senate and House of Representatives.

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**Source Credit**: (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Limitation on Copies of New Editions for House of Representatives

> “Hereafter, appropriations for authorized printing and binding for the Congress shall not be available under the authority of the Act of
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> ) for the printing, publication, and distribution of more than two copies of new editions of the Code of Laws of the United States and of the Code of the District of Columbia for each Member of the House of Representatives.”

, , , provided that:

### Written Requests for Documents

Copies of District of Columbia Code and Supplements not available to Senators or Representatives unless specifically requested by them, in writing, see , , , set out as a note under , Public Printing and Documents.