---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 726"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "726"
heading: "Printing for committees of Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/726"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Congressional Printing and Binding"
---

# §726. Printing for committees of Congress


A committee of Congress may not procure the printing of more than one thousand copies of a hearing, or other document germane thereto, for its use except by simple, concurrent, or joint resolution, as provided by [section 703 of this title](/usc/44/703.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1252.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 154 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 2, 28 Stat. 601; Mar. 1, 1907, ch. 2284, § 1, 34 Stat. 1012).