In light of the recent major legislative overhauls of the health care and financial systems, noting the establishment of the Federal Register as a uniform system for publishing government documents may seem rather quaint. Published each weekday by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR), the Federal Register compiles and organizes the thousands of rules, regulations, executive orders, presidential documents, and notices generated each year by the alphabet soup of federal departments and agencies. After passage of the Federal Register Act in 1935, the government published the inaugural issue of the Federal Register on March 14, 1936.