Oversight Hearing on the Government Printing Office: Hearing Before the Commmittee on House Administration, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, April 28, 2004U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004 - 97 pages |
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21st century agen agency customers American APRIL 28 Boarman Bruce James Chairman challenges changes coal miner's daughter COMMITTEE ON HOUSE communication CONGRES CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Depository Library Program develop digital asset management documents electronic employees ensure executive FDLP Federal Acquisition Regulations Federal agencies Federal Depository Library federal government fiscal funding future GAO Accountability Integrity going government information Government Printing Office GPO Access GPO management GPO needs GPO procurement GPO's Role GRESS THE LIBRARY HOUSE ADMINISTRATION improve information dissemination information products Inspector Internet issues JUANITA MILLENDER-MCDONALD KOONTZ LARSON LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MILLENDER-MCDONALD million mission Mitch Daniels NICHOLS operations Options for GPO's organization OVERSIGHT HEARING panel members partnership planning process printing and dissemination printing and information printing industry Public Printer purchase responsibility RESS staff stakeholders statement strategic plan suggested that GPO Thank Title 44 transformation Trends in Printing U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING workforce
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Page 12 - A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives.
Page 94 - Subcommittee today on behalf of the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, the Medical Library Association and the Special Libraries Association...
Page 85 - GPO's reliance on highly skilled tradesmen by providing for wage conferences between representatives of workers and the Public Printer to fix their compensation. We are proud that many of our members have devoted most, if not all, of their working lives to GPO. We are proud also of the crucial role we perform in publishing and distributing information collected and produced by the federal government not only to the...
Page 85 - ... not be pursued so singlemindedly that the baby is thrown out with the bath water and that the task of keeping the government efficient be performed intelligently and not be viewed through the distorting prism of ideological blindness or a shortsighted view that treats the price of equipment as a one year cost instead of a multi-year investment.
Page 74 - I consider it a rare privilege to be able to appear before you today, and I want to thank you for this opportunity.
Page 18 - Chairman, this concludes my prepared statement, and I would be pleased to answer any questions you or the members of the subcommittee may have.
Page 87 - ... instead of a multi-year investment. The employees we represent do not oppose technological change. We are vitally interested in deepening our understanding and our capacity to utilize the new technology. GPO's unions have demanded and in most instances receive training on new equipment that has revolutionized the printing process in recent decades, and we welcome the opportunity that changing technology affords.
Page 85 - ... work for the Public Printer and the Superintendent of Documents. Union labor has played a decisive role at GPO almost from its inception. In the nineteenth century, GPO sought out the most skilled printers it could find and to get them hired union workers and paid union wages. The Kiess Act, Section 305 of Title 44, enacted in 1924, was one of the earliest examples of federal labor legislation.
Page 19 - ... leadership and coordination and recommends policies for activities designed to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in the administration of, and to prevent and detect fraud and abuse in, such programs and operations. The Inspector General is also responsible for keeping the Secretary of Defense...
Page 86 - ... required to Install, operate, and maintain it, just as we have sought and obtained training occasionally at our own expense and on our own time — to maintain and operate...