H. R. 2918 appropriations for the Legislative Branch

This is a Bill 41 page of making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.

I bring this to your attention so you the American Tax Payer can get an idea of the cost of government and so you can see how the legislative branch of government spends your tax dollars. This report being 41 pages long I will show it in 4 parts after which I will show you who voted for it and who opposed it.

Much of the dialogue is in legislative verbageand may not be totally understandable to the lay person, however, enough can be understood to know one of the first places to begin a budget cut is in government costs, salaries, support expenses, office expenses, health-care, specisal salaries and expenses, etc. Read and Learn!!!!!

Union Calendar No. 79
111TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 2918
[Report No. 111–160]
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 17, 2009
Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported
the following bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other
purposes.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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1 That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
2 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
3 Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September
4 30, 2010, and for other purposes, namely:
5 TITLE I—LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
6 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
7 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
8 For salaries and expenses of the House of Represent9
atives, $1,375,300,000, as follows:
10 HOUSE LEADERSHIP OFFICES
11 For salaries and expenses, as authorized by law,
12 $25,881,000, including: Office of the Speaker,
13 $5,077,000, including $25,000 for official expenses of the
14 Speaker; Office of the Majority Floor Leader, $2,530,000,
15 including $10,000 for official expenses of the Majority
16 Leader; Office of the Minority Floor Leader, $4,565,000,
17 including $10,000 for official expenses of the Minority
18 Leader; Office of the Majority Whip, including the Chief
19 Deputy Majority Whip, $2,194,000, including $5,000 for
20 official expenses of the Majority Whip; Office of the Mi21
nority Whip, including the Chief Deputy Minority Whip,
22 $1,690,000, including $5,000 for official expenses of the
23 Minority Whip; Speaker’s Office for Legislative Floor Ac24
tivities, $517,000; Republican Steering Committee,
25 $981,000; Republican Conference, $1,748,000; Repub26
lican Policy Committee, $362,000; Democratic Steering
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1 and Policy Committee, $1,366,000; Democratic Caucus,
2 $1,725,000; nine minority employees, $1,552,000; train3
ing and program development—majority, $290,000; train4
ing and program development—minority, $290,000;
5 Cloakroom Personnel—majority, $497,000; and Cloak6
room Personnel—minority, $497,000.
7 MEMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES
8 INCLUDING MEMBERS’ CLERK HIRE, OFFICIAL
9 EXPENSES OF MEMBERS, AND OFFICIAL MAIL
10 For Members’ representational allowances, including
11 Members’ clerk hire, official expenses, and official mail,
12 $660,000,000.
13 COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES
14 STANDING COMMITTEES, SPECIAL AND SELECT
15 For salaries and expenses of standing committees,
16 special and select, authorized by House resolutions,
17 $139,878,000: Provided, That such amount shall remain
18 available for such salaries and expenses until December
19 31, 2010, except that $1,000,000 of such amount shall
20 remain available until expended for committee room up21
grading.
22 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
23 For salaries and expenses of the Committee on Ap24
propriations, $31,300,000, including studies and examina25
tions of executive agencies and temporary personal serv-
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1 ices for such committee, to be expended in accordance with
2 section 202(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of
3 1946 and to be available for reimbursement to agencies
4 for services performed: Provided, That such amount shall
5 remain available for such salaries and expenses until De6
cember 31, 2010.
7 SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
8 For compensation and expenses of officers and em9
ployees, as authorized by law, $200,301,000, including:
10 for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Clerk, includ11
ing not more than $23,000, of which not more than
12 $20,000 is for the Family Room, for official representa13
tion and reception expenses, $32,089,000 of which
14 $4,600,000 shall remain available until expended; for sala15
ries and expenses of the Office of the Sergeant at Arms,
16 including the position of Superintendent of Garages, and
17 including not more than $3,000 for official representation
18 and reception expenses, $9,509,000; for salaries and ex19
penses of the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer
20 including not more than $3,000 for official representation
21 and reception expenses, $130,782,000, of which
22 $3,937,000 shall remain available until expended; for sala23
ries and expenses of the Office of the Inspector General,
24 $5,045,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of
25 Emergency Planning, Preparedness and Operations,
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1 $4,445,000, to remain available until expended; for sala2
ries and expenses of the Office of General Counsel,
3 $1,415,000; for the Office of the Chaplain, $179,000; for
4 salaries and expenses of the Office of the Parliamentarian,
5 including the Parliamentarian, $2,000 for preparing the
6 Digest of Rules, and not more than $1,000 for official rep7
resentation and reception expenses, $2,060,000; for sala8
ries and expenses of the Office of the Law Revision Coun9
sel of the House, $3,258,000; for salaries and expenses
10 of the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the House,
11 $8,814,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of
12 Interparliamentary Affairs, $859,000; for other author13
ized employees, $1,249,000; and for salaries and expenses
14 of the Office of the Historian, including the cost of the
15 House Fellows Program (including lodging and related ex16
penses for visiting Program participants), $597,000.
17 ALLOWANCES AND EXPENSES
18 For allowances and expenses as authorized by House
19 resolution or law, $317,940,000, including: supplies, mate20
rials, administrative costs and Federal tort claims,
21 $3,948,000; official mail for committees, leadership of22
fices, and administrative offices of the House, $201,000;
23 Government contributions for health, retirement, Social
24 Security, and other applicable employee benefits,
25 $278,378,000, including employee tuition assistance ben-
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1 efit payments, $3,500,000, if authorized, and employee
2 child care benefit payments, $1,000,000, if authorized;
3 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, $27,698,000,
4 of which $9,000,000 shall remain available until expended;
5 transition activities for new members and staff,
6 $2,907,000; Wounded Warrior Program, $2,500,000, to
7 be derived from funding provided for this purpose in Divi8
sion G of Public Law 111–8; Office of Congressional Eth9
ics, $1,548,000; Energy Demonstration Projects,
10 $2,500,000, if authorized, to remain available until ex11
pended; and miscellaneous items including purchase, ex12
change, maintenance, repair and operation of House
13 motor vehicles, interparliamentary receptions, and gratu14
ities to heirs of deceased employees of the House,
15 $760,000.
16 CHILD CARE CENTER
17 For salaries and expenses of the House of Represent18
atives Child Care Center, such amounts as are deposited
19 in the account established by section 312(d)(1) of the Leg20
islative Branch Appropriations Act, 1992 (2 U.S.C. 2062),
21 subject to the level specified in the budget of the Center,
22 as submitted to the Committee on Appropriations of the
23 House of Representatives.
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1 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
2 SEC. 101. (a) REQUIRING AMOUNTS REMAINING IN
3 MEMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES TO BE
4 USED FOR DEFICIT REDUCTION OR TO REDUCE THE
5 FEDERAL DEBT.—Notwithstanding any other provision of
6 law, any amounts appropriated under this Act for
7 ‘‘HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—SALARIES AND
8 EXPENSES—MEMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOW9
ANCES’’ shall be available only for fiscal year 2010. Any
10 amount remaining after all payments are made under such
11 allowances for fiscal year 2010 shall be deposited in the
12 Treasury and used for deficit reduction (or, if there is no
13 Federal budget deficit after all such payments have been
14 made, for reducing the Federal debt, in such manner as
15 the Secretary of the Treasury considers appropriate).
16 (b) REGULATIONS.—The Committee on House Ad17
ministration of the House of Representatives shall have
18 authority to prescribe regulations to carry out this section.
19 (c) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term
20 ‘‘Member of the House of Representatives’’ means a Rep21
resentative in, or a Delegate or Resident Commissioner
22 to, the Congress.
23 SEC. 102. Effective with respect to fiscal year 2010
24 and each succeeding fiscal year, the aggregate amount
25 otherwise authorized to be appropriated for a fiscal year
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1 for the lump-sum allowance for each of the following of2
fices is increased as follows:
3 (1) The allowance for the office of the Majority
4 Whip is increased by $96,000.
5 (2) The allowance for the office of the Minority
6 Whip is increased by $96,000.
7 JOINT ITEMS
8 For Joint Committees, as follows:
9 JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
10 For salaries and expenses of the Joint Economic
11 Committee, $4,814,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary
12 of the Senate.
13 JOINT COMMITTEE ON TAXATION
14 For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on
15 Taxation, $11,451,000, to be disbursed by the Chief Ad16
ministrative Officer of the House of Representatives.
17 For other joint items, as follows:
18 OFFICE OF THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN
19 For medical supplies, equipment, and contingent ex20
penses of the emergency rooms, and for the Attending
21 Physician and his assistants, including: (1) an allowance
22 of $2,175 per month to the Attending Physician; (2) an
23 allowance of $1,300 per month to the Senior Medical Offi24
cer; (3) an allowance of $725 per month each to three
25 medical officers while on duty in the Office of the Attend-
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1 ing Physician; (4) an allowance of $725 per month to two
2 assistants and $580 per month each not to exceed 11 as3
sistants on the basis heretofore provided for such assist4
ants; and (5) $2,366,000 for reimbursement to the De5
partment of the Navy for expenses incurred for staff and
6 equipment assigned to the Office of the Attending Physi7
cian, which shall be advanced and credited to the applica8
ble appropriation or appropriations from which such sala9
ries, allowances, and other expenses are payable and shall
10 be available for all the purposes thereof, $3,805,000, to
11 be disbursed by the Chief Administrative Officer of the
12 House of Representatives.
13 OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES
14 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
15 For salaries and expenses of the Office of Congres16
sional Accessibility Services, $1,314,000, to be disbursed
17 by the Secretary of the Senate.
18 STATEMENTS OF APPROPRIATIONS
19 For the preparation, under the direction of the Com20
mittees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House
21 of Representatives, of the statements for the first session
22 of the 111th Congress, showing appropriations made, in23
definite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together
24 with a chronological history of the regular appropriations
25 bills as required by law, $30,000, to be paid to the persons
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1 designated by the chairmen of such committees to super2
vise the work.
3 CAPITOL POLICE
4 SALARIES
5 For salaries of employees of the Capitol Police, in6
cluding overtime, hazardous duty pay differential, and
7 Government contributions for health, retirement, social se8
curity, professional liability insurance, and other applica9
ble employee benefits, $263,198,000, to be disbursed by
10 the Chief of the Capitol Police or his designee.
11 GENERAL EXPENSES
12 For necessary expenses of the Capitol Police, includ13
ing motor vehicles, communications and other equipment,
14 security equipment and installation, uniforms, weapons,
15 supplies, materials, training, medical services, forensic
16 services, stenographic services, personal and professional
17 services, the employee assistance program, the awards pro18
gram, postage, communication services, travel advances,
19 relocation of instructor and liaison personnel for the Fed20
eral Law Enforcement Training Center, and not more
21 than $5,000 to be expended on the certification of the
22 Chief of the Capitol Police in connection with official rep23
resentation and reception expenses, $61,914,000, to be
24 disbursed by the Chief of the Capitol Police or his des25
ignee: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provi26
sion of law, the cost of basic training for the Capitol Police
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1 at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center for fis2
cal year 2010 shall be paid by the Secretary of Homeland
3 Security from funds available to the Department of Home4
land Security.
5 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
6 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
7 SEC. 1001. TRANSFER AUTHORITY.—Amounts ap8
propriated for fiscal year 2010 for the Capitol Police may
9 be transferred between the headings ‘‘SALARIES’’ and
10 ‘‘GENERAL EXPENSES’’ upon the approval of the Commit11
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
12 and the Senate.
13 OFFICE OF COMPLIANCE
14 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
15 For salaries and expenses of the Office of Compli16
ance, as authorized by section 305 of the Congressional
17 Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1385), $4,335,000,
18 of which $884,000 shall remain available until September
19 30, 2011: Provided, That the Executive Director of the
20 Office of Compliance may, within the limits of available
21 appropriations, dispose of surplus or obsolete personal
22 property by interagency transfer, donation, or discarding:
23 Provided further, That not more than $500 may be ex24
pended on the certification of the Executive Director of
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1 the Office of Compliance in connection with official rep2
resentation and reception expenses.
3 CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
4 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
5 For salaries and expenses necessary for operation of
6 the Congressional Budget Office, including not more than
7 $6,000 to be expended on the certification of the Director
8 of the Congressional Budget Office in connection with offi9
cial representation and reception expenses, $45,165,000.
10 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
11 SEC. 1101.—MODIFICATIONS TO EXECUTIVE EX12
CHANGE PROGRAM.—(a) EXPANSION OF NUMBER OF
13 PARTICIPANTS.—Section 1201(b) of the Legislative
14 Branch Apropriations Act, 2008 (2 U.S.C. 611 note) is
15 amended by striking ‘‘3’’ each place it appears and insert16
ing ‘‘5’’.
17 (b) PERMANENT EXTENSION OF PROGRAM.—Section
18 1201 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 611 note) is amended—
19 (1) by striking subsection (d) and redesignating
20 subsection (e) as subsection (d); and
21 (2) in subsection (d), as so redesignated, by
22 strking ‘‘Subject to subsection (d), this section’’ and
23 inserting ‘‘This section’’.
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1 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
2 this section shall take effect as if included in the enact3
ment of the Legislatve Branch Appropriations Act, 2008.
4 ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
5 GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
6 For salaries for the Architect of the Capitol, and
7 other personal services, at rates of pay provided by law;
8 for surveys and studies in connection with activities under
9 the care of the Architect of the Capitol; for all necessary
10 expenses for the general and administrative support of the
11 operations under the Architect of the Capitol including the
12 Botanic Garden; electrical substations of the Capitol, Sen13
ate and House office buildings, and other facilities under
14 the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol; including
15 furnishings and office equipment; including not more than
16 $5,000 for official reception and representation expenses,
17 to be expended as the Architect of the Capitol may ap18
prove; for purchase or exchange, maintenance, and oper19
ation of a passenger motor vehicle, $109,392,000, of
20 which $8,950,000 shall remain available until September
21 30, 2014.
22 HISTORIC BUILDINGS REVITALIZATION TRUST FUND
23 For a payment to the Historic Buildings Revitaliza24
tion Trust Fund established under section 1201,
25 $60,000,000, to remain available until expended.
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