United States Congress Joint Committee on Printing

The Joint Committee on Printing is a joint committee of the U.S. Congress. Sit in it in equal members of the Senate and House of Representatives. It monitors the work of the Government Printing Office, which is responsible for all publications of the Federal Government of the United States both in print and in databases. This includes the various forms of the Official Gazette, with laws and regulations, the documents of the legislative process in the Congressional Record, the official journal of the Federal Register as well as the passports of the United States and some minor publications. The legal basis of the activity is Title 44, United States Code.

Until the merger by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, there were separate committees of the Senate and House of Representatives for this task.

Each chamber of Congress provides five MPs in the committee. These are the chairman and four members of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the chairman and four members of the House Committee on House Administration. The chairmanship rotates every two years between a senator and a congressman. In the 112th Congress, the Republican Congressman Gregg Harper delivers Mississippi preside; Deputy is Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York.