Congress Record to Put Different Face on Added Remarks

The House voted unanimously Wednesday to use different typefaces in the official Congressional Record, to distinguish remarks spoken on the floor from those added later by members.

Currently, the record of House proceedings uses a black dot to indicate added remarks, but lawmakers favoring the change said the procedure previously used was not clear enough.

Under House rules, a member can insert an entire speech in the record that was not delivered on the floor, or can revise and extend remarks made on the floor. Any revisions beyond grammatical or spelling changes now will be printed in a different typeface.