From The Hill:
James H. Billington, the librarian of Congress, once said, “The digital history of this nation is imperiled by the very technology that is used to create it.” Indeed, it is an irony of the digital age that the technology that can make information easily available in the short run can also make it difficult to preserve for the long term. The digital record of the activities of Congress may be lost if we do not take decisive action.
The House should take easy, cost-effective steps today to guard against the irreparable loss of congressional information.
While some of this information has always been and still is well preserved (e.g., the U.S. Code, the Statutes at Large, the Congressional Record), the task of digital preservation is now unlike anything Congress has faced before.