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Assassination Records Review Board
Final Determination Notification
AGENCY : HSCA
180-10068-10308
RECORD NUMBER :
RECORD SERIES :
STAFF PAYROLL RECORDS
AGENCY FILE NUMBER :
December 8, 1995
Status of Document:
Postponed in Part
Number of releases of previously postponed information: 11
Reason for Board Action: The Review Board's decision was premised on several factors
including: (a) the significant historical interest in the document in question; (b) the
absence of evidence that the release of the information would cause harm to the United
States or to any individual.
Number of Postponements: 10
Postponements: All the postponements in this document represent Social Security numbers.
Reason for Board Action: The text is redacted because the public disclosure of the redaction could
reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, and that invasion of
privacy would be so substantial that it outweighs the public interest.
Substitute Language: SSN
Date of Next Review: 2017
Board Review Completed: 10/24/95
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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107
Notel. Case#:NW 88326 Date: 2025
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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
IDENTIFICATION FORM
AGENCY INFORMATION
Date: 08/20/93
Page: 1
AGENCY: HSCA
RECORD NUMBER :
180-10068-10308
RECORDS SERIES :
STAFF PAYROLL RECORDS
AGENCY FILE NUMBER :
ORIGINATOR : HSCA
FROM:
TO :
TITLE :
DOCUMENT INFORMATION
DATE: 01/01/77
PAGES: 13
SUBJECTS :
HSCA, ADMINISTRATION
BERNING, ELIZABETH L.
DOCUMENT TYPE :
CLASSIFICATION
RESTRICTIONS :
PRINTED FORM
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CURRENT STATUS : P
DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 07/07/93
OPENING CRITERIA :
Box #:1.
COMMENTS :
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[R] ITEM IS RESTRICTED
PAYROLL AUTHORIZATION FORM
(Please Use Typewriter
or Ballpoint Pen)
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Washington, D.C. 20515
To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
I hereby authorize the following payroll action:
Employee Name (First-Middle-Last)
(Any erasures, corrections, or changes
on this form must be initialed by the
authorizing official.)
Effective Date
1/1/79
Type of Action
Elizabeth L. Berning
Employee Social Security Number
☐ Appointment
579-46-4548
Employing Office or Committee/Subcommittee
☐ Title Change
Assassinations
Salary Adjustment
☐ Termination (At close of business on effective date)
☐ Leave without pay (Beginning with effective date above and ending
close of business ____
Specify Date
(If type of action is an Appointment, Salary Adjustment, or Title Change, complete appropriate information below.)
Position Title
Gross Annual Salary*
$24,900.00
* If employee is a civil service annuitant (includes U.S. House of Representatives), the gross annual salary shown should include the annuity received by the employee
plus the salary received from the employing office.
(If Committee Employee, complete appropriate item below.)
1. ☐ Standing Committee: Staff -☐ Clerical or ☐ Professional.
2. ☐ Special (Investigative staff of Standing Committee) or Select Committee: Authority-H. Res. 956 of 5th Congress.
3. ☐ Joint Committee.
(If Employee of an Officer of the House, complete item below.)
Position Number_
If applicable, Level __
Step__
I certify that this authorization is not in violation of 5 U.S.C. 3110(b), prohibiting the employment of
relatives.
January 2
Date_
79
19_.
(Signature of Authorizing Official)
LOUIS STOKES
(Type or print name of Authorizing Official)
CHAIRMAN
(If appropriate, signature of Subcommittee Chairman or Ranking Minority Member)
(Type or print name and title of above official)
(Title If Member, District and State)
All appointments and salary adjustments for employees under the House Classification Act and for Committee em-
ployees, except those of the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Committees, must
be approved by the Committee on House Administration.
Office of Finance use only:
NW 88326
APPROVED:
Chairman, Committee on House Administration -
ID
Office Code
Benefits
Monthly Annuity $
.00
as of
Payroll
(Revised: August 1, 1977)
Copy for Initiating Office or Committee
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PAYROLL AUTHORIZATION FORM
(Please Use Typewriter
or Ballpoint Pen)
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Washington, D.C. 20515
To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
I hereby authorize the following payroll action:
Employee Name (First-Middle-Last)
(Any erasures, corrections, or changes
on this form must be initialed by the
authorizing official.)
Effective Date
December 1, 1978
Elizabeth L. Berning
Employee Social Security Number
579-46-4548
☐ Appointment
Employing Office or Committee/Subcommittee
Assassinations
☐ Title Change
☐ Salary Adjustment
Type of Action
☐ Termination (At close of business on effective date)
☐ Leave without pay (Beginning with effective date above and ending
close of business _ _
Specify Date
(If type of action is an Appointment, Salary Adjustment, or Title Change, complete appropriate information below.)
Position Title
Gross Annual Salary*
$33,100.00
* If employee is a civil service annuitant (includes U.S. House of Representatives), the gross annual salary shown should include the annuity received by the employee
plus the salary received from the employing office.
(If Committee Employee, complete appropriate item below.)
1. ☐ Standing Committee: Staff -☐ Clerical or ☐ Professional.
955
of.
Congress.
2. ☐ Special (Investigative staff of Standing Committee) or Select Committee: Authority-H. Res.
3. ☐ Joint Committee.
(If Employee of an Officer of the House, complete item below.)
Position Number __
If applicable, Level
Step
I certify that this authorization is not in violation of 5 U.S.C. 3110(b), prohibiting the employment of
relatives.
Date
December 11
78
19_
(If appropriate, signature of Subcommittee Chairman or Ranking Minority Member)
(Type or print name and title of above official)
(Signature of Authorizing Official)
LOUIS STOKES
(Type or print name of Authorizing Official)
Chairman
(Title If Member, District and State)
All appointments and salary adjustments for employees under the House Classification Act and for Committee em-
ployees, except those of the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Committees, must
be approved by the Committee on House Administration.
Office of Finance use only:
NW 88326
Office Code..
Monthly Annuity $.
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.00
as of
APPROVED:..
Chairman, Committee on House Administration
Copy for Initiating Office or Committee
ID
Benefits
Payroll ___
(Revised: August 1, 1977)
eb
PAYROLL AUTHORIZATION FORM:
(Please Use Typewriter:
or Ballpoint Pen)
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Washington, D.C. 20515
To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
I hereby authorize the following payroll action:
Employee Name (First-Middle-Last)
Elizabeth L. Berning
Employee Social Security Number
579-46-4548
Employing Office or Committee/Subcommittee
Assassinations
(Any erasures, corrections, or changes
on this form must be initialed by the
authorizing official.)
Effective Date
December 1,
1977
☐ Appointment
✓ ✓ Salary Adjustment
☐ Title Change
Type of Action
☐ Termination (At close of business on effective date)
☐ Leave without pay (Beginning with effective date above and ending
close of business_.
Specify Date
(If type of action is an Appointment, Salary Adjustment, or Title Change, complete appropriate information below.)
Chief Clark
Position Title
Gross Annual Salary*
$23,600
*If employee is a civil service annuitant (includes U.S. House of Representatives), the gross annual salary shown should include the annuity received by the employee
plus the salary received from the employing office.
(If Committee Employee, complete appropriate item below.)
1. ☐ Standing Committee: Staff ☐ Clerical or ☐ Professional...
2. Special (Investigative staff of Standing Committee) or Select Committee: Authority-H. Res 465 of 95th Congress.
3. ☐ Joint Committee.
(If Employee of an Officer of the House, complete item below.)
Position Number_.
_If applicable, Level _
Step
I certify that this authorization is not in violation of 5 U.S.C. 3110(b), prohibiting the employment of
relatives.
December 1
Date
77
19
(Signature of Authorizing Official)
Louis Stokes
(Type or print name of Authorizing Official)
Chairman
(If appropriate, signature of Subcommittee Chairman or Ranking Minority Member)
(Type or print name and title of above official)
(Title If Member, District and State)
All appointments and salary adjustments for employees under the House Classification Act and for Committee em-
ployees, except those of the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Committees, must
be approved by the Committee on House Administration.
Office of Finance use only:
NW 88326
Office Code
Monthly Annuity $_.
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.00
as of
APPROVED:
Chairman, Committee on House Administration
Copy for Initiating Office or Committee.
ID
Benefits
Payroll
(Revised: August 1977)
PAYROLL AUTHORIZATION FORM
(Please Use Typewriter
or Ballpoint Pen)
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Washington, D.C. 20515
To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
I hereby authorize the following payroll action:
Employee Name (First-Middle-Last)
Elizabeth L. Berning
Employee Social Security Number
579-46-4548
Employing Office or Committee
Assassinations
(Any erasures, corrections, or changes
on this form must be initialed by the
authorizing official.)
Effective Date
October 1, 1977
Type of Action
Appointment
Salary Adjustment
☐ Termination (At close of business on effective date)
(If type of action is an Appointment or Salary Adjustment, complete the following information.)
Position Title
Chief Clerk
(If Committee Employee, complete appropriate item below.)
1. Standing Committee: Staff -☐ Clerical or ☐ Professional.
2. ☑ Special or Select Committee: Authority-H. Res. 465
3. ☐ Joint Committee.
(If Employee of an Officer of the House, complete item below.)
Position Number_
If applicable, Level__
Gross Annual Salary
$22,000
of 95th Congress.
..Step __
I certify that this authorization is not in violation of 5 U.S.C. 3110(b), prohibiting the employment of
relatives.
Date
October 14, 1977 41.9%
(Signature of Authorizing Official)
Louis Stokes
(Type or print name of Authorizing Official)
Chairman
eb
(Title If Member, District and State)
All appointments and salary adjustments for employee's under the House Classification Act and for Committee em
ployees, except those of the Committee on Appropriations; the Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Committees, must
be approved by the Committee on House Administration...
Office of Finance use only:
Office Code___
Monthly Annuity $__.
.00
NW 88326
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APPROVED:..
Chairman, Committee on House Administration
Copy for Initiating Office or Committee
MEMORANDUM
TO: Thomas Howarth
FROM: G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director
883
RE: Elizabeth Berning
10-14-77
This is to advise that effective October 1, 1977,
Elizabeth Berning will become Chief Clerk at an annual salary
of $22,000.
NW 88326
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PAYROLL AUTHORIZATION FORM
(Please Use Typewriter-
or Ballpoint Pen)
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Washington, D.C. 20515
To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
I hereby authorize the following payroll action:
Employee Name (First-Middle-Last)
Elizabeth L. Berning
Employee Social Security Number
579-46-4548
Employing Office or Committee
Assassinations
(Any erasures, corrections, or changes
on this form must be initialed by the
authorizing official.)
Effective Date
8/7/77
Type of Action
Appointment
Salary Adjustment
Termination (At close of business on effective date)
(If type of action is an Appointment or Salary Adjustment; complete the following information.)
Position Title
Secretary
(If Committee Employee, complete appropriate item below.).
1. ☐ Standing Committee: Staff-☐ Clerical or ☐ Professional.
2. ☑ Special or Select Committee: Authority-H. Res. 465
3. ☐ Joint Committee.
(If Employee of an Officer of the House, complete item below.)
Position Number__
Gross Annual Salary
$21,500
of 95th Congress.
_If applicable, Level Step
certify that this authorization is not in violation of 5 U.S.C. 3110(b); prohibiting the employment of
relatives.
Date_
August 2
1977
(Signature of Authorizing Official)
LOUIS STOKES
CHAIRMAN
(Type or print name of Authorizing Official).
(Title If Member, District and State)
All appointments and salary adjustments for employees under the House Classification Act and for Committee em
ployees, except those of the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Committees, must
- be approved by the Committee on House Administration...
Office of Finance use only:
Office Code
Monthly Annuity $.
.00
NW 88326
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APPROVED:
Chairman, Committee on House Administration
Copy for Initiating Office or Committee
PAYROLL AUTHORIZATION FORM
(Please Use Typewriter
or Ballpoint Pen)
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Washington, D.C. 20515
To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
I hereby authorize the following payroll action:
Employee Name (First-Middle-Last)
(Any erasures, corrections, or changes
on this form must be initialed by the
authorizing official.)
Effective Date
Elizabeth L. Berning
5/1/77
Employee Social Security Number
579 46 4548
Appointment
Type of Action
Employing Office or Committee
Assassinations
Salary Adjustment
Termination (At close of business on effective date)
(If type of action is an Appointment or Salary Adjustment, complete the following information.)
Position Title
Gross Annual Salary
$16,000
(If Committee Employee, complete appropriate item below.)
1. ☐ Standing Committee: Staff -☐ Clerical or ☐ Professional.
2. ☑Special or Select Committee: Authority-H. Res. 465 of 95th Congress.
3. ☐ Joint Committee.
(If Employee of an Officer of the House, complete item below.)
Position Number___
☐ If applicable, Level _ Step _____
I certify that this authorization is not in violation of 5 U.S.C. 3110(b), prohibiting the employment of
relatives.
Date
May 10
77
19.
Z
(Signature of Authorizing Official)
Louis Stokes
(Type or print name of Authorizing Official)
Chairman
(Title If Member, District and State).
All appointments and salary adjustments for employees. under the House Classification Act and for Committee em
ployees, except those of the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Committees, must
_ be approved by the Committee on House Administration.*
Office of Finance use only:
Office Code_._
Monthly Annuity $.
.00
NW 88326
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APPROVED:
Chairman, Committee on House Administration..
Copy for Initiating Office or Committee
5/11
FO
PAYROLL AUTHORIZATION FORM.
(Please Use Typewriter
or Ballpoint Pen)
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Washington, D.C. 20515
To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
I hereby authorize the following payroll action:
Employee Name (First-Middle-Last)
☐ (Any erasures, corrections, or changes.
on this form must be initialed by the
authorizing official.)
Effective Date
Elizabeth L. Berning
4/7/77
Employee Social Security Number
Type of Action
579 46 4548
Employing Office or Committee
Appointment
☐ Salary Adjustment
Termination (At close of business on effective date)
Assassinations
(If type of action is an Appointment or Salary Adjustment, complete the following information.)
Position Title
(If Committee Employee, complete appropriate item below.)
1. ☐ Standing Committee: Staff -☐ Clerical or ☐ Professional.
2. ☑Special or Select Committee: Authority-H. Res. 465 of 95th Congress.
3. ☐ Joint Committee.
(If Employee of an Officer of the House, complete item below.)
Position Number_
_If applicable, Level ___ Step__
Gross Annual Salary
$33,600
I certify that this authorization is not in violation of 5 U.S.C. 3110(b), prohibiting the employment of
relatives.
Date
April 29
19 77
(Signature of Authorizing Official)
Louis Stokes
(Type or print name of Authorizing Official)
Chairman
(Title If Member, District and State)
. All appointments and salary adjustments for employees under the House Classification Act and for Committee em-
ployees, except those of the Committee on Appropriations; the Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Committees, must
be approved by the Committee on House Administration.
Office of Finance use only:
Office Code...
Monthly Annuity $__
.00
NW 88326
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APPROVED:
Chairman, Committee on House Administration
Copy for Initiating Office or Committee

PAYROLL AUTHORIZATION FORM
(Please Use Typewriter:
or Ballpoint Pen)
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Washington, D.C. 20515
To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
I hereby authorize the following payroll action:
Employee Name (First-Middle-Last)
(Any erasures, corrections, or changes.
on this form must be initialed by the
authorizing official.)
Effective Date
Elizabeth L. Berning
2-1-77
Employee Social Security Number
Type of Action
579-46-4548
Appointment
Employing Office or Committee
☑Salary Adjustment
Select Committee on Assassinations
Termination (At close of business on effective date)
(If type of action is an Appointment or Salary Adjustment, complete the following information.)
Position Title
(If Committee Employee, complete appropriate item below.)
Gross Annual Salary
$10,000.
1. ☐ Standing Committee: Staff ☐ Clerical or ☐ Professional.
2. ☑Special or Select Committee: Authority-H. Res. 11 of 95
Congress.
3. ☐ Joint Committee.
(If Employee of an Officer of the House, complete item. below.)
Position Number_
_If applicable, Level Step
1. certify that this authorization is not in violation of 5 U.S.C. 3110(b), prohibiting the employment of
relatives.
2-28-77
Date
1.9.
(Signature of Authorizing Official)
Henry B. Gonzalez
Chairman
(Type or print name of Authorizing Official)
(Title If Member, District and State)
:
All appointments and salary adjustments for employees under the House Classification Act and for Committee em->
✓ployees, except those of the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Committees, must
be approved by the Committee on House Administration.
Office of Finance use only:
Office Code
Monthly Annuity $.
.00
NW 88326
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APPROVED:
Chairman, Committee on House Administration
Copy for Initiating Office or Committee
PAYROLL AUTHORIZATION FORM
(Please Use Typewriter
or Ballpoint Pen)
EU.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Washington, D.C. 20515
To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
I hereby authorize the following payroll action:
Employee Name (First-Middle-Last)
(Any erasures, corrections, or changes
on this form must be initialed by the
authorizing official.)
Effective Date
Elizabeth L. Berning
1/3/77
Employee Social Security Number
Type of Action
979 46 4543
Appointment
Employing Office or Committee
Salary Adjustment
Termination (At close of business on effective date)
Select Committed on Assassinations
(If type of action is an Appointment or Salary Adjustment, complete the following information.)
Position Title
(If Committee Employee, complete appropriate item below.)
1.
Standing Committee: Staff -☐ Clerical or ☐ Professional.
2. Special or Select Committee: Authority-H. Res. 1
3. ☐ Joint Committee.
(If Employee of an Officer of the House, complete item below.)
Position Number_
If applicable, Level_
Gross Annual Salary
$107809.
of 25th
Congress.
Step_
I certify that this authorization is not in violation of 5 U.S.C. 3110(b), prohibiting the employment of
relatives.
Date_
1977
(Signature of Authorizing Official)
Henry D. Gonzalez
(Type or print name of Authorizing Official)
Cheiran
(Title If Member, District and State)
All appointments and salary adjustments for employees under the House Classification Act and for Committee em-
ployees, except those of the Committee on Appropriations; the Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Committees, must
be approved by the Committee on House Administration.
Office of Finance use only:
_Office Code ___
Monthly Annuity $_.
.00
NW 88326
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APPROVED:..
Chairman, Committee on House Administration
Copy for Initiating Office or Committee.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Please consider this verification that
Elizabeth L. Berning began employment, permanent
full-time status, with the House of Representatives
Select Committee on Assassinations January 1, 1977.
January 31, 1977
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151 Telers W. Martin
Rebecca Wheeler Martin
Chief Clerk
PAYROLL AUTHORIZATION FORM
(Please Use Typewriter
for Ballpoint Pen) -
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Washington, D.C. 20515
To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
hereby authorize the following payroll action:
(Any erasures, corrections, or changes
on this form must be initialed by the
authorizing official.)
Employee Name (First-Middle-Last)
Elizabeth L. Berning
Employee Social Security Number
Effective Date
1/7/77
Type of Action
☑☐ Appointment
Employing Office or Committee
Salary Adjustment.
Setect Committee on Assassinations
Termination (At close of business on effective date)
(If type of action is an Appointment or Salary Adjustment, complete the following information.)
Secretary
Position Title
(If Committee Employee, complete appropriate item below.).
1. Standing Committee: Staff -☐ Clerical or ☐ Professional..
Gross Annual Salary
$16,000
2.
Special or Select Committee: Authority-H: Res. 1540 of th Congress.
3. Joint Committee.
(If Employee of an Officer of the House, complete item below.)
Position Number_
_ If applicable, Level_
_ Step __
I certify that this authorization is not in violation of 5 U.S.C. 31.10(b), prohibiting the employment of
relatives.
Date
December 30
1.90
(Signature of Authorizing Official)
Thomas N. Downing, Chairman
(Type or print name of Authorizing Official)
Select Committee on Assassinatings
(Title If Member, District and State)
"
All appointments and salary adjustments for employees under the House Classification Act and for Committee em-
ployees, except those of the Committee on Appropriations; the Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Committees, must
be approved by the Committee on House Administration..
Office of Finance use only:
Office Code..
Monthly Annuity $.
.00
NW 88326
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APPROVED:
Chairman, Committee on House Administration.
Copy for Initiating Office or Committee
MEMORANDUM
TO:
All Staff Employees,
FROM:
Budget Officer
DATE:
January 3, 1977
RE:
Payroll Certification
Starting with the January, 1977 payroll, the certification
to the House Finance Office requires, among other things, the
relationship, if any, of each staff employee to any current
Member of Congress (those taking office January 3, 1977).
The following are the relationships to be included in
the certification:
father
mother
nephew
niece
brother-in-law
sister-in-law
son
daughter
brother
sister
uncle
aunt
first cousin
husband
wife
father-in-law
mother-in-law
son-in-law
daughter-in-law
stepfather
stepmother
stepbrother
stepsister
half-brother
half-sister
All staff employees are requested to complete this
form and return it to the Budget officer.
Approved
Richard A. Sprague
I am not related
I am related by the following relationship
Eliſaluch
NW 88326
Signature of Employee
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1-10-77
Date