A member of the GPO apprentice class of 1940 uses a Monotype typesetters. (Courtesy of GPO).
Posted on 04/18/2014 5:42:14 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
The Senate may vote soon on a bipartisan bill that would give the 153-year-old Government Printing Office a new name to better reflect its digital-age work.
The legislation, sponsored by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), would swap the word “printing” for “publishing” to make the agency the Government Publishing Office. It also would change the top two GPO officials’ titles from “public printer” and “deputy public printer” to ”director” and “deputy director.”
Supporters of the measure say the current GPO name ignores the agency’s past and present efforts to reinvent itself for modern times with digital offerings such as e-books, apps and the Federal Digital System, which allows the public to search for, browse and download official publications from all branches of the government.
A member of the GPO apprentice class of 1940 uses a Monotype typesetters. (Courtesy of GPO).
“The name Government Publishing Office better reflects the services that GPO currently provides and will provide in the future,” said Senate Rules and Administration Committee Chairman Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).
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The present name is fine (unless I get the contract to make all the new signs. Oh, wait, this is Schumer’s bill, so I don’t have a chance)
Electric Lies
How about let’s shut the F’n thing down!
They are wasting time on THAT
ZERO FIDDLES WHILE AMERICA BURNS
“Government Propaganda Office.” You don’t even have to change the initials.
Please let me know which congressional office I should send my invoice to, for payment of my $20 million consulting fee on this project.
By all means, with the economy in the sh*tter, illegal immigrants cheek by jowl all over the US, Russia invading Ukraine, and Middle East terrorism rampant, congress has nothing better to do than spend time on this childishness.
I suggest something fancy like “Tass”.
Is the GPO even needed nowadays? Everything is on eforms.
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