This booklet summarizes the proceedings of a forum--whose audience consisted of over 200 library and information managers, congressional staff members, and persons from the information industry and academic community--on the condition of federal information policies as they relate to the Congressional initiative. Among issues discussed are: (1) the role of Congress in formulating information policies, and how that role is balanced by the executive and judicial branches; (2) the practicality and desirability of centralized control over the dissemination of government information; and (3) the inhibiting impact of the costs of acquiring information in electronic formats on access to that information. Speakers whose remarks are summarized are: Congressman Robert E. Wise, Jr., (Democrat--West Virginia); Harold C. Relyea, Congressional Research Service (CRS); Ralph Nader, consumer advocate; Walter Berns, Georgetown University and American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; John H. Gibbons, Office of Technology Assessment (OTA); Nancy Kranich, New York University Libraries; Susan K. Martin, U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS); Robert M. Rosenzweig, Association of American Universities; and Anthony G. Oettinger, Harvard University. Three presentations are also included in full text: (1) "Keynote Address" (Robert E. Wise, Jr.); (2) "Congressional and Federal Information Policies: The Bicentennial Record and the Future" (Harold C. Relyea); and (3) "Scholarship and the Need for Information" (Robert M. Rosenzweig). (SD)