1.5: Committee Reports
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Committee reports are important parts of the legislative process, documenting the findings and recommendations that committees
report to the full House and Senate. They do see publication on the most authoritative resource for committee reports, the
Library of Congress's THOMAS system. They are also published by the Government Printing Office. The GPO's Federal Digital
System (FDsys) is relatively new and is meant to improve systematic access to government documents, but it has not become
recognized as an authoritative source for many of those documents. Because of the sources through which they are published,
committee reports are somewhat machine-discoverable, but without good semantic information embedded in them, committee reports
are barely visible to the Internet. Rather than publication in HTML and PDF, committee reports should be published fully marked
up with the array of signals that reveal what bills, statutes, and agencies they deal with, as well as authorizations and
appropriations, so that the Internet can discover and make use of these documents.
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