OMB, GAO to Go Digital on Key Reports

OMB, GAO TO GO DIGITAL ON KEY REPORTS
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Stephen Barr]
They operate in different parts of the government, but both have decided to go digital and phase out their signature paper products. The Office of Management and Budget will not print 3,000 copies of the president's budget to hand out to members of Congress, the Cabinet and their staffs on Feb. 4. Instead, the four books that lay out the president's spending priorities will be put on the Web at http://www.budget.gov Across town, the Government Accountability Office, which investigates and reviews federal agency operations and policies, is dropping publication of its famed blue-cover reports for distribution on Capitol Hill, at agencies and at conferences. For longtime policy wonks, it's all something of a shock, especially the end of free budget books. "It's the one document that people actually look at," a staff member of the House Appropriations Committee said. But the president's budget books have a short life most years. After congressional aides, lobbyists and others scrutinize lines of small print involving their areas of interest, the 10-pound sets of books often end up as door props or on shelves collecting dust.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR200801...
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