GAO Releases 10 DVDs of Federal Legislative Histories to Public.Resource.org
From Public.Resource.org:
The Government Accountability Office released 10 DVDs of materials, containing 619,481 PDF files. This material has been placed on-line for the public to examine. Even a cursory examination shows how incredibly valuable the Federal Legislative Histories are and what a loss to the U.S. Congress, the legal profession, and the general public it would be lock up this amazing resource created by those talented professionals, the Government Accountability Office legislative historians. As employees of the U.S. Congress, their work benefits us all and should be part of our common pool of public domain resources.In response to the data release by the GAO, we have proposed an unsolicited joint venture [ pdf ] which would allow the GAO to ship to us the same materials they shipped to Thomson West.
Browse the GAO's data release.