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Congressional Official Mail Costs (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date March 1, 2005
Report Number RS20671
Report Type Report
Authors John Pontius, Government and Finance Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

The congressional franking privilege allows Members of Congress to send officialmail at government expense. During the past 15 years, franking reform efforts reducedfranking expenditures by 70% from $113.4 million in FY1988 to $34 million in FY2004(Table 1)1. House mail costs have decreased from a high of $77.9 million in FY1988to a low of $13.9 million in FY2001. The Senate has dramatically reduced its costs,from $43.6 million in FY1984 to $2.9 million in FY2002.