[DiogenesLamp]

Whatever Federal Rules of Evidence said before 1996, this law is the current standard.

I know i'm beating a dead horse, but no subsequent act of congress can modify the meaning of an Article of the U.S. Constitution. THAT requires an amendment. The DUTY of Governmental officials per constitutional requirement is not to play legal "let's believe and make pretend" but to verify ACTUAL and TRUE FACTS. Actual and true facts are not subject to this or that body "Declaring or Proclaiming" the one thing to be equal to the other.

[muawiyah]

Actually "true facts" are certainly covered in that statute that includes data base systems as valid record repositories.

I'm sure that somewhere in the bowels of the government we have something about the admissability of DVDs, CDs, hard disk drives, video tape, film, holographic copies (and maybe even Jefferson's device that allows a writer to produce 2 copies at one time), sound recordings, photographs, color slides, negatives, positives, etc.

Looking through the Constitution I didn't see the word "paper"? Did you?