SENATE

SENATE Mileage and Expense Allowances mileage of the vice president and senators For mileage of the Vice President and Senators of the United States, $60,000. expense allowances For expense allowances of the Vice President, $10,000; the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, $10,000; Majority Leader of the Senate, $10,000; Minority Leader of the Senate, $10,000; Majority Whip of the Senate, $5,000; Minority Whip of the Senate, $5,000; and Chairmen of the Majority and Minority Conference Committees, $3,000 for each Chairman; in all, $56,000. representation allowances for the majority and minority leaders For representation allowances of the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate, $15,000 for each such Leader; in all, $30,000. salaries, officers and employees For compensation of officers, employees, and others as authorized by law, including agency contributions, $69,895,000, which shall be paid from this appropriation without regard to the below limitations, as follows: office of the vice president For the Office of the Vice President, $1,431,000. office of the president pro tempore For the Office of the President Pro Tempore, $432,000. offices of the majority and minority leaders For Offices of the Majority and Minority Leaders, $2,076,000. 106 STAT. 1704 offices of the majority and minority whips For Offices of the Majority and Minority Whips, $644,000. conference committees For the Conference of the Majority and the Conference of the Minority, at rates of compensation to be fixed by the Chairman of each such committee, $942,000 for each such committee; in all, $1,884,000. offices of the secretaries of the conference of the majority and the conference of the minority For Offices of the Secretaries of the Conference of the Majority and the Conference of the Minority, $362,000. office of the chaplain For Office of the Chaplain, $172,000. office of the secretary For Office of the Secretary, $11,715,000. office of the sergeant at arms and doorkeeper For Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $33,739,000. offices of the secretaries for the majority and minority For Offices of the Secretary for the Majority and the Secretary for the Minority, $1,133,000. agency contributions and related expenses For agency contributions for employee benefits, as authorized by law, and related expenses, $16,307,000. Office of the Legislative Counsel of the Senate For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the Senate, $3,080,000. Office of Senate Legal Counsel For salaries and expenses of the Office of Senate Legal Counsel, $833,000. Expense Allowances of the Secretary of the Senate, Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, and Secretaries for the Majority and Minority of the Senate For expense allowances of the Secretary of the Senate, $3,000; Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, $3,000; Secretary for the Majority of the Senate, $3,000; Secretary for the Minority of the Senate, $3,000; in all, $12,000. 106 STAT. 1705 Contingent Expenses of the Senate senate policy committees For salaries and expenses of the Majority Policy Committee and the Minority Policy Committee, $1,199,100 for each such committee; in all, $2,398,200. inquiries and investigations For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, or conducted pursuant to section 134(a) of Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, as amended, section 112 of Public Law 96–304 and Senate Resolution 281, agreed to March 11, 1980, $77,000,000. expenses of united states senate caucus on international narcotics control For expenses of the United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, $336,000. secretary of the senate For expenses of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, $1,452,500. sergeant at arms and doorkeeper of the senate For expenses of the Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, $82,944,000. miscellaneous items For miscellaneous items, $6,748,000: Provided, That funds appropriated under this heading for fiscal years 1991 and 1992 pursuant to S. Res. 239 (102d Congress, agreed to November 27, 1991), shall remain available until September 30, 1993. senators’ official personnel and office expense account For Senators’ Official Personnel and Office Expense Account, $185,768,000. Office of Senate Fair Employment Practices For salaries and expenses of the Office of Senate Fair Employment Practices, $825,000. stationery (revolving fund) For stationery for the President of the Senate, $4,500, for officers of the Senate and the Conference of the Majority and Conference of the Minority of the Senate, $8,500; in all, $13,000. official mail costs For expenses necessary for official mail costs of the Senate, $20,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1994. 106 STAT. 1706 administrative provisions Section 1. Effective October 1, 1992, section 111(a) of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1978 (2 U.S.C. 61–1 note) is amended by striking “$149,286” and inserting “an amount equal to 3 times the maximum annual gross rate of compensation that may be paid to an employee of the office of a Senator”. Sec. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Senate is authorized to establish a Senate Gift Shop for the purpose of providing for the sale of gift items to Members of the Senate, staff, and the general public. (b) All moneys received from sales and other services by the Senate Gift Shop shall be deposited in the revolving fund established by subsection (c) and shall be available for purposes of this section. (c) There is established in the Treasury of the United States a revolving fund within the contingent fund of the Senate to be known as the Senate Gift Shop Revolving Fund (hereafter referred to in this section as the “fund”). The fund shall consist of all amounts collected or received by the Secretary of the Senate from sales and services by the Senate Gift Shop. All moneys in the fund shall be available without fiscal year limitation for disbursement by the Secretary of the Senate in connection with the operation of the Senate Gift Shop, including supplies, equipment, and other expenses. In addition, such moneys may be used by the Secretary of the Senate to reimburse the Senate appropriations account, appropriated under the heading “Salaries, Officers and Employees” and “Office of the Secretary”, for amounts used from such account to pay the salaries of employees of the Senate Gift Shop. (d) The provisions of section 4 of the Act of July 31, 1946 (40 U.S.C. 193d), shall not be applicable to any activity carried out pursuant to this section. (e) To provide capital for the fund, the Secretary of the Senate is authorized to transfer, from moneys in the Stationery Revolving Fund in the contingent fund of the Senate, to the fund such sum as he may determine necessary, not to exceed $300,000. (f) For the purpose of acquiring supplies, equipment, and meeting other initial expenses in implementing subsection (a), the Secretary of the Senate is authorized, upon the date of the enactment of this Act, to expend, from moneys appropriated to the appropriations account, within the contingent fund of the Senate, for expenses of the Secretary of the Senate, by the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1991, such amounts as may be necessary to carry out this section. (g) Disbursements from the fund shall be made upon vouchers approved by the Secretary of the Senate, or his designee. (h) The Secretary of the Senate is authorized to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. Sec. 3. Section 69a of title 2 of the United States Code is amended by striking “$4,000” and inserting “$10,000”. Sec. 4. Section 7 under the heading “Senate” and “Administrative Provisions” of Public Law 101–163 (103 Stat. 1046) is amended— (1) by striking “enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Education to” in the first sentence thereof; (2) by striking the second sentence thereof; and 106 STAT. 1707 (3) by striking in the last sentence “Miscellaneous Items” and inserting in lieu thereof “Secretary of the Senate”. Sec. 5. Section 10 of Senate Resolution 144, agreed to June 13, 1989 (101st Congress, 1st Session) as amended by Senate Resolution 352, agreed to October 27, 1990 (101st Congress, 2d Session), is amended by striking “One Hundred and Second Congress” and inserting “One Hundred and Third Congress”. Effective with this reauthorization, the Commission shall support objectives of Public Law 100–696 and be renamed accordingly. Sec. 6. Section 105(a) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act 1965 (2 U.S.C. 104a) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(3) The report requirement relating to quantity, as contained in subparagraph (2) of paragraph (1), does not apply with respect to the Senate.”. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Salaries and Expenses (Prior Years) (rescission) Of the funds appropriated in the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1991, for the House of Representatives under the heading “Salaries and Expenses”, there is rescinded a total of $6,775,642.83, in the amounts specified for the following headings and accounts: (1) “house leadership offices”, $308,988.51, as follows: (A) “Office of the Speaker”, $17,647.07; (B) “Office of the Majority Floor Leader”, $36,233.46; (C) “Office of the Minority Floor Leader”, $183,097.26; (D) “Office of the Majority Whip”, $61,579.53; and (E) “Office of the Minority Whip”, $10,431.19. (2) “committee on the budget (studies)”, $8,261.37. (3) “standing committees, special and select”, $2,171,051.63. (4) “allowances and expenses”, $2,592,737.63, as follows: (A) “Official Expenses of Members”, $2,196,821.48; (B) “supplies, materials, administrative costs and Federal tort claims”, $3,108.30; (C) “net expenses of purchase, lease and maintenance of office equipment”, $292,766.95; and (D) “stenographic reporting of committee hearings”, $100,040.90. (5) “committee on appropriations (studies and investigations)”, $955,144.83. (6) “official mail costs”, $41,210.33. (7) “salaries, officers and employees”, $698,248.53, as follows: (A) “Office of the Postmaster”, $1,000.53; (B) “Office of the Parliamentarian”, $119,087.71; (C) “for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Historian”, $54,324.08; (D) “for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the House”, $198,559.05; (E) “six minority employees, $85,315.44; (F) “the House Democratic Steering Committee and Caucus”, $123,537.90; (G) “the House Republican Conference”, $94,273.55; and (H) “other authorized employees”, $22,150.27. Salaries and Expenses For salaries and expenses of the House of Representatives, $699,109,000, as follows: 106 STAT. 1708 house leadership offices For salaries and expenses, as authorized by law, $5,561,000, including: Office of the Speaker, $1,383,000, including $25,000 for official expenses of the Speaker; Office of the Majority Floor Leader, $994,000, including $10,000 for official expenses of the Majority Leader; Office of the Minority Floor Leader, $1,348,000, including $10,000 for official expenses of the Minority Leader; Office of the Majority Whip, $1,095,000, including $5,000 for official expenses of the Majority Whip and not to exceed $405,830, for the Chief Deputy Minority Whip; and Office of the Minority Whip, $741,000, including $5,000 for official expenses of the Minority Whip and not to exceed $97,330, for the Chief Deputy Minority Whip. members’ clerk hire For staff employed by each Member in the discharge of official and representative duties, $228,313,000. committee employees For professional and clerical employees of standing committees, including the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget, $70,950,000. committee on the budget (studies) For salaries, expenses, and studies by the Committee on the Budget, and temporary personal services for such committee to be expended in accordance with sections 101(c), 606, 703, and 901(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, and to be available for reimbursement to agencies for services performed, $389,000. standing committees, special and select For salaries and expenses of standing committees, special and select, authorized by the House, $57,900,000. Committee on House Administration house information systems For salaries, expenses and temporary personal services of House Information Systems, under the direction of the Committee on House Administration, $22,885,000, of which $8,139,000 is provided herein: Provided, That House Information Systems is authorized to receive reimbursement for services provided from Members and Officers of the House of Representatives and other Governmental entities and such reimbursement shall be deposited in the Treasury for credit to this account: Provided further, That amounts so credited for fiscal year 1992 and not obligated shall be available for obligation in fiscal year 1993. allowances and expenses For allowances and expenses as authorized by House resolution or law, $222,737,000, including: Official Expenses of Members, $78,545,000; supplies, materials, administrative costs and Federal tort claims, $19,116,000; net expenses of purchase, lease and 106 STAT. 1709maintenance of office equipment, $4,427,000; furniture and furnishings, $1,720,000; stenographic reporting of committee hearings, $1,055,000; reemployed annuitants reimbursements, $1,039,000; Government contributions to employees’ life insurance fund, retirement funds, Social Security fund, Medicare fund, health benefits fund, and worker’s and unemployment compensation, $116,203,000; and miscellaneous items including, but not limited to, purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair and operation of House motor vehicles, interparliamentary receptions, and gratuities to heirs of deceased employees of the House, $632,000. Child Care Center For salaries and expenses of the House of Representatives Child Care Center, such amounts as are deposited in the account established by section 312(d)(1) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1992 (40 U.S.C. 184g(d)(1)), subject to the level specified in the budget of the Center, as submitted to the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. committee on appropriations (studies and investigations) For salaries and expenses, studies and examinations of executive agencies, by the Committee on Appropriations, and temporary personal services for such committee, to be expended in accordance with section 202(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act, 1946, and to be available for reimbursement to agencies for services performed, $6,631,000. official mail costs For expenses necessary for official mail costs of the House of Representatives, as authorized by law, $47,711,000. salaries, officers and employees For compensation and expenses of officers and employees, as authorized by law, $50,778,000, including: Office of the Clerk, including not to exceed $1,000 for official representation and reception expenses, $22,354,000; Office of the Sergeant at Arms, including not to exceed $500 for official representation and reception expenses, $1,369,000; Office of the Doorkeeper, including overtime, as authorized by law, $10,750,000; Office of the Postmaster, $4,079,000; Office of the Chaplain, $123,000; Office of the Parliamentarian, including the Parliamentarian and $2,000 for preparing the Digest of Rules, $854,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Historian, $310,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the House, $1,403,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the House, $4,155,000; six minority employees, $735,000; the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee and the Democratic Caucus, $1,461,000; the House Republican Conference, $1,461,000; and other authorized employees, $1,724,000.