---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 901"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "901"
heading: "Congressional Record: arrangement, style, contents, and indexes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/901"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Congressional Record"
---

# §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.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1255.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 181 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 13, 28 Stat. 603).