Business Is Booming For the GPO —Cagle

Robert Tapella, chief of staff for the GPO, told the paper that the shift in party control created a swell of need for stationery—Democrats in new leadership posts, incumbent Republicans in minority roles, freshman lawmakers. The growth in print has been so great that the GPO requested $110 million to cover congressional printing and binding costs in the next fiscal year, $26 million more than the current budget (though $8 million is needed to cover the agency’s deficit, according to the Post, since the budget was not increased despite increasing print demands and costs for things like wages and paper). The U.S. Code, printed every six years, has to be published in the next fiscal year.