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Nina Heller

Librarian should be chosen by Congress, House panel agrees

One year after President Donald Trump fired the librarian of Congress, support is growing for a bill that would prevent it from happening again.

The heads of both the Library of Congress and the Government Publishing Office should be appointed not by the president but by a congressional commission, lawmakers on the House Administration Committee agreed Thursday.

The panel easily advanced, 11-0, a proposal that would make that switch while also overhauling the U.S. Copyright Office.

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