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106TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2d Session 106–685

PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 4516, THE

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2001

JUNE 21 (legislative day, JUNE 20), 2000.—Referred to the House Calendar and

ordered to be printed

Ms. PRYCE, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany H. Res. 530]

The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration House

Resolution 530, by a nonrecord vote, report the same to the House

with the recommendation that the resolution be adopted.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF RESOLUTION

The resolution provides for the consideration of H.R. 4516, the

Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2001, under a structured

rule. The rule provides one hour of general debate divided equally

between the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations.

The rule waives points of order against consideration of the bill

for failure to comply with section 401(a) of Congressional Budget

Act of 1974 (prohibiting consideration of budget related legislation,

as reported, providing new contract authority that is not limited to

amounts provided in appropriations acts). The rule also waives all

points of order against provisions of the bill for failure to comply

with clause 2 of rule XXI (prohibiting unauthorized or legislative

provisions in a general appropriations bill and prohibiting reappropriations in a general appropriations bill).

The rule makes in order only those amendments printed in this

report, which may be offered only in the order printed in this report, may be offered only by a Member designated in this report,

shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in this report equally divided and controlled by the proponent

and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not

be subject to a demand for a division of the question in the House

or in the Committee of the Whole.

The rule allows the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole to

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ing time to five minutes on a postponed question if the vote follows

a fifteen minute vote. Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions.

The waiver of section 401(a) of the Congressional Budget Act is

necessary because section 102 of the bill provides the Chief Administrative Officer with new contract authority. The waiver of clause

2 of House Rule XXI against provisions in the bill is necessary because the bill contains at least 30 provisions which would change

existing law and which are listed in the Appropriations Committee

report (H. Rept. 106–635).

COMMITTEE VOTES

Pursuant to clause 3(b) of House rule XIII the results of each

record vote on an amendment or motion to report, together with

the names of those voting for and against, are printed below:

Rules Committee record vote No. 111

Date: June 20, 2000.

Measure: H.R. 4516, Legislative Branch Appropriations Act,

2001.

Motion By: Mr. Frost.

Summary of Motion: To make in order the Wynn amendment to

strike section 208 of the bill which converts 84 Library of Congress

temporary employees to permanent positions.

Results: Defeated 2 to 7.

Vote by Member: Goss—Nay; Linder—Nay; Pryce—Nay;

Hastings—Nay; Sessions—Nay; Reynolds—Nay; Moakley—Yea;

Frost—Yea; Dreier—Nay.

SUMMARY OF AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER UNDER THE RULE TO AC- COMPANY H.R. 4516—LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2001

Taylor (NC)/Pastor: Manager’s amendment. Changes funding levels for the following accounts: (1) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—restores $7.12 million for the FY 2001 COLA and $2.54

million for this year’s projected spending level for official expenses

from the Member Representation Allowances; restores government

contributions for FY 2001 COLA throughout the House accounts

($3.3 million); restores the COLA for other House offices (+$2.1M)

and Committees (+$2.3M); funds the new Member orientation

(+$275k) and transition costs for 107th Congress (+$1.2M); increases Members’ equipment purchase plan (+$500K) and other

items (+$1M); (2) POLICE—restores COLAs, comparability, and

longevity (+$20.4M) for the current level of staff on board (1361

board—no RIF’s.); adds 48 officers (the June recruit class) to the

current level (1361) (+$2.2M); substitutes fence report language for

attrition provision; (3) CBO—restores funding for a 215 FTE level

(+$2.3M) (attrition will cover this, at CBO’s discretion); (4) ARCHITECT—restores COLA funding to avoid RIF’s (+$5.6M); covers

costs for election year moves (+$750K); funds day-time cleaning

services (+$525K); CRS—restores CRS staff (+$5M); annualizes FY

2000 pay raise (+$283K); funds FY 2001 pay raise (+$1.7M); provides in-grade increases (+$600k); (6) GPO CP&B—adds $1.598M

for January 2001 COLA (no attrition or no layoffs); provides funds

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neous printing (+$1.7M); provides funds for treaties and international agreements (+$130K) and Congressional Directory

(+$728K); (7) GPO FDLP—restores funds (+$13.6M) to maintain

documents in the Depository Program that are only available in

paper form and adds $491K for January 2001 COLA for Sup Docs.

(no attrition, layoffs, or RIFs); and (8) GAO—restores funding to

avoid RIF’s but has a FY 2001 hiring freeze (+$17.4M). (10 minutes)

Camp/Roemer: Mandates that any money not spent for Members’

representational allowances for FY 2001 be deposited in the U.S.

Treasury for deficit or debt reduction. (20 minutes)

Ryan: Establishes a mechanism where all of the savings from

successful appropriations amendments which reduce or cut funding

are captured and devoted to debt reduction, unless otherwise directed to other discretionary spending. (20 minutes)

Text of amendments made in order:

1. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE TAYLOR OF

NORTH CAROLINA, OR REPRESENTATIVE PASTOR OF ARIZONA, OR A

DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 2, line 5, strike ‘‘$749,210,000’’ and insert ‘‘$769,551,000’’.

Page 2, line 8, strike ‘‘$13,998,000’’ and insert ‘‘$14,378,000’’.

Page 2, line 9, strike ‘‘$1,711,000’’ and insert ‘‘$1,759,000’’.

Page 2, line 10, strike ‘‘$1,677,000’’ and insert ‘‘$1,726,000’’.

Page 2, line 12, strike ‘‘$2,039,000’’ and insert ‘‘$2,096,000’’.

Page 2, line 15, strike ‘‘$1,427,000’’ and insert ‘‘$1,466,000’’.

Page 2, line 18, strike ‘‘$1,065,000’’ and insert ‘‘$1,096,000’’.

Page 2, line 20, strike ‘‘$399,000’’ and insert ‘‘$410,000’’.

Page 2, line 21, strike ‘‘$744,000’’ and insert ‘‘$765,000’’.

Page 2, line 21, strike ‘‘$1,220,000’’ and insert ‘‘$1,255,000’’.

Page 2, line 22, strike ‘‘$1,315,000’’ and insert ‘‘$1,352,000’’.

Page 2, line 23, strike ‘‘$649,000’’ and insert ‘‘$668,000’’.

Page 2, line 24, strike ‘‘$1,196,000’’ and insert ‘‘$1,229,000’’.

Page 3, line 8, strike ‘‘$400,527,000’’ and insert ‘‘$410,182,000’’.

Page 3, line 13, strike ‘‘$89,896,000’’ and insert ‘‘$92,196,000’’.

Page 3, line 18, strike ‘‘$20,231,000’’ and insert ‘‘$20,628,000’’.

Page 4, line 3, strike ‘‘$86,369,000’’ and insert ‘‘$90,403,000’’.

Page 4, line 7, strike ‘‘$14,286,000’’ and insert ‘‘$14,590,000’’.

Page 4, line 11, strike ‘‘$3,596,000’’ and insert ‘‘$3,692,000’’.

Page 4, line 12, strike ‘‘$54,997,000’’ and insert ‘‘$58,550,000’’.

Page 4, line 14, strike ‘‘$24,912,000’’ and insert ‘‘$26,605,000’’.

Page 4, line 16, strike ‘‘$24,327,000’’ and insert ‘‘$26,020,000’’.

Page 4, line 18, strike ‘‘$5,760,000’’ and insert ‘‘$6,497,000’’.

Page 4, line 25, strike ‘‘$3,197,000’’ and insert ‘‘$3,249,000’’.

Page 5, line 5, strike ‘‘$1,172,000’’ and insert ‘‘$1,201,000’’.

Page 5, line 13, strike ‘‘$138,189,000’’ and insert ‘‘$141,764,000’’.

Page 5, line 15, strike ‘‘$1,960,000’’ and insert ‘‘$2,235,000’’.

Page 5, line 19, strike ‘‘$135,426,000’’ and insert ‘‘$138,726,000’’.

Page 8, line 22, strike ‘‘$70,120,000’’ and insert ‘‘$92,769,000’’.

Page 8, line 22, strike ‘‘$33,586,000’’ and insert ‘‘$45,683,000’’.

Page 8, line 25, strike ‘‘$36,534,000’’ and insert ‘‘$47,086,000’’.

Page 21, line 8, strike ‘‘$25,100,000’’ and insert ‘‘$27,403,000’’.

Page 22, line 6, strike ‘‘$41,953,000’’ and insert ‘‘$44,234,000’’.

Page 22, line 11, strike ‘‘$4,557,000’’ and insert ‘‘$5,217,000’’.

Page 22, line 15, strike ‘‘$29,685,000’’ and insert ‘‘$32,750,000’’.

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Page 23, line 9, strike ‘‘$38,555,000’’ and insert ‘‘$39,151,000’’.

Page 23, line 21, strike ‘‘$66,200,000’’ and insert ‘‘$73,810,000’’.

Page 24, line 11, strike ‘‘$65,457,000’’ and insert ‘‘$69,626,000’’.

Page 36, line 14, strike ‘‘$15,133,000’’ and insert ‘‘$15,837,000’’.

Page 36, line 25, strike ‘‘$11,606,000’’ and insert ‘‘$25,652,000’’.

Page 39, line 21, strike ‘‘$351,529,000’’ and insert ‘‘$368,896,000’’.

Strike section 308 (and redesignate the succeeding provisions accordingly).

2. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE CAMP OF

MICHIGAN, OR REPRESENTATIVE ROEMER OF INDIANA, OR A DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 20 MINUTES

Page 7, insert after line 8 the following (and redesignate the succeeding sections accordingly):

SEC. 103. (a) REQUIRING AMOUNTS REMAINING IN MEMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES TO BE USED FOR DEFICIT REDUCTION

OR TO REDUCE THE FEDERAL DEBT.—Notwithstanding any other

provision of law, any amounts appropriated under this Act for

‘‘HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—SALARIES AND EXPENSES—

MEMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES’’ shall be available only

for fiscal year 2001. Any amount remaining after all payments are

made under such allowances for fiscal year 2001 shall be deposited

in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction (or, if there is no

Federal budget deficit after all such payments have been made, for

reducing the Federal debt, in such manner as the Secretary of the

Treasury considers appropriate).

(b) REGULATIONS.—The Committee on House Administration of

the House of Representatives shall have authority to prescribe regulations to carry out this section.

(c) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term ‘‘Member of

the House of Representatives’’ means a Representative in, or a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress.

3. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE RYAN OF

WISCONSIN, OR A DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 20 MINUTES

At the end (before the short title), insert the following new section:

SEC. 311. SPENDING ACCOUNTABILITY LOCK-BOX.

(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF LEDGER.—(1) Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

‘‘SPENDING ACCOUNTABILITY LOCK-BOX LEDGER

‘‘SEC. 316. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF LEDGER.—The chairman of the

Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives and the

chairman on the Committee on the Budget of the Senate shall each

maintain a ledger to be known as the ‘Spending Accountability

Lock-box Ledger’. The Ledger shall be divided into entries corresponding to the subcommittees of the Committees on Appropriations. Each entry shall consist of three components: the ‘House

Lock-box Balance’; the ‘Senate Lock-box Balance’; and the ‘Joint

House-Senate Lock-box Balance’.

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‘‘(b) COMPONENTS OF LEDGER.—Each component in an entry shall

consist only of amounts credited to it under subsection (c). No entry

of a negative amount shall be made.

‘‘(c) CREDIT OF AMOUNTS TO LEDGER.—(1) In the House of Representatives or the Senate, whenever a Member offers an amendment to an appropriation bill to reduce new budget authority in

any account, that Member may state the portion of such reduction

that shall be—

‘‘(A) credited to the House or Senate Lock-box Balance, as

applicable; or

‘‘(B) used to offset an increase in new budget authority in

any other account;

‘‘(C) allowed to remain within the applicable section 302(b)

suballocation.

If no such statement is made, the amount of reduction in new

budget authority resulting from the amendment shall be credited

to the House or Senate Lock-box Balance, as applicable, if the

amendment is agreed to.

‘‘(2)(A) Except as provided by subparagraph (B), the chairmen of

the Committees on the Budget shall, upon the engrossment of any

appropriation bill by the House of Representatives and upon the

engrossment of Senate amendments to that bill, credit to the applicable entry balance of that House amounts of new budget authority

and outlays equal to the net amounts of reductions in new budget

authority and in outlays resulting from amendments agreed to by

that House to that bill.

‘‘(B) When computing the net amounts of reductions in new budget authority and in outlays resulting from amendments agreed to

by the House of Representatives or the Senate to an appropriation

bill, the chairmen of the Committees on the Budget shall only

count those portions of such amendments agreed to that were so

designated by the Members offering such amendments as amounts

to be credited to the House or Senate Lock-box Balance, as applicable, or that fall within the last sentence of paragraph (1).

‘‘(3) The chairmen of the Committees on the Budget shall, upon

the engrossment of Senate amendments to any appropriation bill,

credit to the applicable Joint House-Senate Lock-box Balance the

amounts of new budget authority and outlays equal to—

‘‘(A) an amount equal to one-half of the sum of (i) the

amount of new budget authority in the House Lock-box Balance plus (ii) the amount of new budget authority in the Senate Lock-box Balance for that subcommittee; and

‘‘(B) an amount equal to one-half of the sum of (i) the

amount of outlays in the House Lock-box Balance plus (ii) the

amount of outlays in the Senate Lock-box Balance for that subcommittee.

‘‘(4) CALCULATION OF LOCK-BOX SAVINGS IN SENATE.—For purposes of calculating under this section the net amounts of reductions in new budget authority and in outlays resulting from amendments agreed to by the Senate on an appropriation bill, the amendments reported to the Senate by its Committee on Appropriations

shall be considered to be part of the original text of the bill.

‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term ‘appropriation

bill’ means any general or special appropriation bill, and any bill

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or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing

appropriations through the end of a fiscal year.

‘‘(e) TALLY DURING HOUSE CONSIDERATION.—The chairman of the

Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives shall

maintain a running tally of the amendments adopted reflecting increases and decreases of budget authority in the bill as reported.

This tally shall be available to Members in the House of Representatives during consideration of any appropriation bill by the

House.’’.

(2) The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended

by inserting after the item relating to section 315 the following new

item:

‘‘Sec. 316. Spending accountability lock-box ledger.’’.

(b) DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT OF SECTIONS 302(a) AND (b) ALLOCATIONS.—(1) Section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974

is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

‘‘(6) ADJUSTMENT OF ALLOCATIONS.—Upon the engrossment

of Senate amendments to any appropriation bill (as defined in

section 316(d)), the amounts allocated under paragraph (1) to

the Committee on Appropriations of each House upon the

adoption of the most recent concurrent resolution on the budget for that fiscal year shall be adjusted downward by the

amounts credited to the applicable Joint House-Senate Lockbox Balance under section 316(c)(2). The revised levels of new

budget authority and outlays shall be submitted to each House

by the chairman of the Committee on the Budget of that House

and shall be printed in the Congressional Record.’’.

(2) Section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is

amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: ‘‘Whenever an adjustment is made under subsection (a)(6) to an allocation

under that subsection, the Committee on Appropriations of each

House shall make downward adjustments in the most recent suballocations of new budget authority and outlays under this subparagraph to the appropriate subcommittees of that committee in

the total amounts of those adjustments under section 316(c)(2). The

revised suballocations shall be submitted to each House by the

chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of that House and

shall be printed in the Congressional Record.’’.

(c) PERIODIC REPORTING OF LEDGER STATEMENTS.—Section

308(b)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by

adding at the end the following new sentence: ‘‘Such reports shall

also include an up-to-date tabulation of the amounts contained in

the ledger and each entry established by section 316(a).’’.

(d) DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT OF DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.—The discretionary spending limits for new budget authority

and outlays set forth in section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and

Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, shall be reduced by the

amounts set forth in the final regular appropriation bill for that fiscal year or joint resolution making continuing appropriations

through the end of that fiscal year. Those amounts shall be the

sums of the Joint House-Senate Lock-box Balances for that fiscal

year, as calculated under section 302(a)(6) of the Congressional

Budget Act of 1974. That bill or joint resolution shall contain the

following statement of law: ‘‘As required by section 311(d) of the

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Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2001, for fiscal year [insert

appropriate fiscal year], the adjusted discretionary spending limit

for new budget authority is reduced by $ [insert appropriate

amount of reduction] and the adjusted discretionary limit for outlays is reduced by $ [insert appropriate amount of reduction] for

the fiscal year.’’. Section 306 shall not apply to any bill or joint resolution because of such statement. This adjustment shall be reflected in reports under sections 254(f) and 254(g) of the Balanced

Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.— (1) IN GENERAL.—This section and the amendments made by

it shall apply to all appropriation bills making appropriations

for fiscal year 2001 or any subsequent fiscal year.

(2) RETROACTIVE APPLICATION.—In the case of any appropriation bill engrossed by the House of Representatives before the

date of enactment of this section, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, the Director of the Office of Management

and Budget, and the Committees on Appropriations and the

Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and

of the Senate shall, within 10 calendar days after that date of

enactment, carry out the duties required by the amendments

made by this section that occur before that date of enactment.

(3) FY2001 ALLOCATIONS.—The duties of the Director of the

Congressional Budget Office and of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives pursuant to this Act

and the amendments made by it regarding appropriation bills

for fiscal year 2001 shall be based upon the revised section

302(a) allocations in effect upon the date of engrossment of this

Act by the House of Representatives.

(4) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term ‘‘appropriation bill’’ means any general or special appropriation bill,

and any bill or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations.

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