As Congress returns this week for its lame-duck period, the House is focusing on a slate of bipartisan bills aimed at making government more efficient.
Three bills are likely to pass under the expedited process known as suspension of the rules. All sailed through committee and have bipartisan backing.
H.R. 9592, the “Federal Register Modernization Act,” from the Oversight and Accountability Committee, would eliminate requirements to print physical copies of the Federal Register.
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The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.), would allow the government’s newspaper to become an electronic publication, with two copies printed for recordkeeping. At a markup in September, Higgins called it “a commonsense, good governance bill.”
