Prepared Statement of the American Association of Law Libraries Dear Chairman Reed, Ranking Member Braun, and Members of the subcommittee: Thank you for the opportunity to submit testimony on behalf of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) in support of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget requests of the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) and the Library of Congress. AALL is a national organization representing more than 3,500 law librarians and legal information professionals. AALL members work in many library settings, including law schools and law firms; federal, state, and county governments; and Federal and State courts. Law librarians and legal information professionals rely on resources and publications provided for free by the GPO, the Library of Congress, and the Law Library of Congress to support the legal research needs of students, attorneys, self-represented litigants, and members of the public. AALL thanks the subcommittee for its support of the prior year's funding requests of the GPO and the Library of Congress. Past funding has allowed the GPO and the Library of Congress to develop innovative partnerships with Federal agencies and law libraries to digitize, preserve, and provide public access to primary legal materials, including the United States Code and the Code of Federal Regulations. Partnerships between law libraries, the GPO, and the Law Library of Congress promote access to justice by making legal materials easier for legal researchers and the public to find, understand, and use. Recent funding has also enabled the GPO and the Law Library of Congress to create new public resources including legal research guides and online trainings on a variety of government information topics that are helpful to legal researchers, such as how to find Federal legislation on Congress.gov and how to track Federal regulations. AALL supports the FY 2023 funding requests of the GPO and the Library of Congress because this funding will allow these agencies to continue to build valuable partnerships with law libraries and other stakeholders, pursue digitization initiatives, and expand projects that provide greater access to current and historical legal information in print and online. We urge the subcommittee to approve the FY 2023 funding requests of the GPO and the Library of Congress. funding for the u.s. government publishing office The GPO produces, organizes, authenticates, disseminates, and preserves official Federal legal information and government documents for the public. Approximately 200 law libraries partner with the GPO through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) to provide public access to legal materials in print and online. Law librarians and legal information professionals also frequently use the govinfo website to support the legal research needs of law library patrons. With the subcommittee's support of the GPO's past funding requests, the GPO has increased access to electronic Federal information through the FDLP; partnered with libraries to digitize, preserve, and provide public access to core legal materials and government publications; and added new public collections of primary legal materials to govinfo, including digitized historical volumes of the United States Congressional Serial Set which are now available to the public at no cost for the first time. AALL urges the subcommittee to approve the GPO's FY 2023 funding request of $130.9 million. The request will provide the funds the GPO needs to make Federal Government publications available to Federal depository libraries in digital and print formats. AALL is supportive of the goals of the GPO's new task force to study the feasibility of an all-digital FDLP, which comes at a time when some law libraries are updating their collection development policies to select more electronic resources because of changing patron preferences due to the COVID-19 pandemic or for other reasons. The GPO's funding will also be used to develop the govinfo website, which provides free public access to official publications such as bills and