IIB 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4346 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 29, 2021 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for Legislative Branch for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2022, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2022, and for other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I 
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For salaries and expenses of the House of Represent-
atives, $1,714,996,045, as follows: 
HOUSE LEADERSHIP OFFICES 
For salaries and expenses, as authorized by law, 
$34,949,640, 
including: 
Office 
of 
the 
Speaker, 
$10,036,950, including $35,000 for official expenses of 
the Speaker; Office of the Majority Floor Leader, 
$3,565,870, including $15,000 for official expenses of the 
Majority Leader; Office of the Minority Floor Leader, 
$10,036,950, including $17,500 for official expenses of 
the Minority Leader; Office of the Majority Whip, includ-
ing the Chief Deputy Majority Whip, $2,962,080, includ-
ing $5,000 for official expenses of the Majority Whip; Of-
fice of the Minority Whip, including the Chief Deputy Mi-
nority Whip, $2,684,990, including $5,000 for official ex-
penses of the Minority Whip; Republican Conference, 
$2,831,400; Democratic Caucus, $2,831,400: Provided, 
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rials, administrative costs and Federal tort claims, 
$1,555,000; official mail for committees, leadership of-
fices, and administrative offices of the House, $190,000; 
Government contributions for health, retirement, Social 
Security, contractor support for actuarial projections, and 
other applicable employee benefits, $356,000,000, to re-
main available until March 31, 2023, except that 
$25,000,000 of such amount shall remain available until 
expended; salaries and expenses for Business Continuity 
and Disaster Recovery, $23,812,861, of which $6,000,000 
shall remain available until expended; transition activities 
for new members and staff, $5,895,000, to remain avail-
able until expended; Wounded Warrior Program and the 
Congressional Gold Star Family Fellowship Program, 
$9,294,000, to remain available until expended; Office of 
Congressional Ethics, $1,738,000; and miscellaneous 
items including purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair 
and operation of House motor vehicles, interparliamentary 
receptions, and gratuities to heirs of deceased employees 
of the House, $1,500,000. 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MODERNIZATION 
INITIATIVES ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the House of Representatives Modernization Ini-
tiatives Account established under section 115 of the Leg-
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islative Branch Appropriations Act, 2021 (2 U.S.C. 5513), 
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That disbursement from this account is subject to ap-
proval of the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives: Provided further, That funds provided 
in this account shall only be used for initiatives rec-
ommended by the Select Committee on Modernization or 
approved by the Committee on House Administration. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
REQUIRING
AMOUNTS
REMAINING
IN
MEMBERS’ REP-
RESENTATIONAL
ALLOWANCES
TO
BE
USED
FOR 
DEFICIT REDUCTION OR TO REDUCE THE FEDERAL 
DEBT 
SEC. 110. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, any amounts appropriated under this Act for 
‘‘HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—SALARIES
AND 
EXPENSES—MEMBERS’ 
REPRESENTATIONAL
ALLOW-
ANCES’’ shall be available only for fiscal year 2022. Any 
amount remaining after all payments are made under such 
allowances for fiscal year 2022 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). 
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(b) The Committee on House Administration of the 
House of Representatives shall have authority to prescribe 
regulations to carry out this section. 
(c) 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. 
LIMITATION ON AMOUNT AVAILABLE TO LEASE VEHICLES 
SEC. 111. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Chief Administrative Officer of 
the House of Representatives to make any payments from 
any Members’ Representational Allowance for the leasing 
of a vehicle, excluding mobile district offices, in an aggre-
gate amount that exceeds $1,000 for the vehicle in any 
month. 
CYBERSECURITY ASSISTANCE FOR HOUSE OF 
REPRESENTATIVES 
SEC. 112. The head of any Federal entity that pro-
vides assistance to the House of Representatives in the 
House’s efforts to deter, prevent, mitigate, or remediate 
cybersecurity risks to, and incidents involving, the infor-
mation systems of the House shall take all necessary steps 
to ensure the constitutional integrity of the separate 
branches of the government at all stages of providing the 
assistance, including applying minimization procedures to 
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limit the spread or sharing of privileged House and Mem-
ber information. 
ALLOWANCES FOR COMPENSATION OF INTERNS IN HOUSE 
COMMITTEE OFFICES 
SEC. 113. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF ALLOWANCES.— 
There are established for the House of Representatives the 
following allowances: 
(1) An allowance which shall be available for 
the compensation of interns who serve in offices of 
a standing, special, or select committee of the House 
(other than the Committee on Appropriations). 
(2) An allowance which shall be available for 
the compensation of interns who serve in offices of 
the Committee on Appropriations. 
(b) BENEFIT EXCLUSION.—Section 104(b) of the 
House of Representatives Administrative Reform Tech-
nical Corrections Act (2 U.S.C. 5321(b)) shall apply with 
respect to an intern who is compensated under an allow-
ance under this section in the same manner as such sec-
tion applies with respect to an intern who is compensated 
under the Members’ Representational Allowance. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the term ‘‘in-
tern’’, with respect to a committee of the House, has the 
meaning given such term with respect to a Member of the 
House of Representatives in section 104(c)(2) of the 
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House of Representatives Administrative Reform Tech-
nical Corrections Act (2 U.S.C. 5321(c)(2)). 
(d) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT
RELATING
TO 
TRANSFER OF AMOUNTS.—Section 101(c)(2) of the Leg-
islative Branch Appropriations Act, 1993 (2 U.S.C. 
5507(c)(2)) is amended by inserting after ‘‘ ‘Allowance for 
Compensation of Interns in Member Offices’,’’ the fol-
lowing: ‘‘ ‘Allowance for Compensation of Interns in House 
Appropriations Committee Offices’, ‘Allowance for Com-
pensation of Interns in House Standing, Special and Se-
lect Committee Offices’,’’. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022 and 
each succeeding fiscal year. 
JOINT ITEMS 
For Joint Committees, as follows: 
JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Economic 
Committee, $4,203,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary 
of the Senate. 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON TAXATION 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on 
Taxation, $12,059,000, to be disbursed by the Chief Ad-
ministrative Officer of the House of Representatives. 
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For other joint items, as follows: 
OFFICE OF THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN 
For medical supplies, equipment, and contingent ex-
penses of the emergency rooms, and for the Attending 
Physician and his assistants, including: 
(1) an allowance of $3,500 per month to the 
Attending Physician; 
(2) an allowance of $2,500 per month to the 
Senior Medical Officer; 
(3) an allowance of $900 per month each to 
three medical officers while on duty in the Office of 
the Attending Physician; 
(4) an allowance of $900 per month to 2 assist-
ants and $900 per month each not to exceed 11 as-
sistants on the basis heretofore provided for such as-
sistants; and 
(5) $2,880,000 for reimbursement to the De-
partment of the Navy for expenses incurred for staff 
and equipment assigned to the Office of the Attend-
ing Physician, which shall be advanced and credited 
to the applicable appropriation or appropriations 
from which such salaries, allowances, and other ex-
penses are payable and shall be available for all the 
purposes thereof, $4,063,000, to be disbursed by the 
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until expended for the restoration and renovation of the 
Cannon House Office Building: Provided, That of the 
amount made available under this heading, $9,000,000 
shall be derived by transfer from the House Office Build-
ing Fund established under section 176(d) of the Con-
tinuing Appropriations Act, 2017, as added by section 
101(3) of the Further Continuing Appropriation Act, 
2017 (Public Law 114–254; 2 U.S.C. 2001 note). 
CAPITOL POWER PLANT 
For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care 
and operation of the Capitol Power Plant; lighting, heat-
ing, power (including the purchase of electrical energy) 
and water and sewer services for the Capitol, Senate and 
House office buildings, Library of Congress buildings, and 
the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, Senate ga-
rage, and air conditioning refrigeration not supplied from 
plants in any of such buildings; heating the Government 
Publishing Office and Washington City Post Office, and 
heating and chilled water for air conditioning for the Su-
preme Court Building, the Union Station complex, the 
Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building and the 
Folger Shakespeare Library, expenses for which shall be 
advanced or reimbursed upon request of the Architect of 
the Capitol and amounts so received shall be deposited 
into the Treasury to the credit of this appropriation, 
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$119,601,000, of which $29,000,000 shall remain avail-
able until September 30, 2026: Provided, That not more 
than $10,000,000 of the funds credited or to be reim-
bursed to this appropriation as herein provided shall be 
available for obligation during fiscal year 2022. 
LIBRARY BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
For all necessary expenses for the mechanical and 
structural maintenance, care and operation of the Library 
buildings 
and 
grounds, 
$103,578,000, 
of 
which 
$70,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
2026. 
CAPITOL POLICE BUILDINGS, GROUNDS AND SECURITY 
For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care 
and operation of buildings, grounds and security enhance-
ments of the United States Capitol Police, wherever lo-
cated, the Alternate Computing Facility, and Architect of 
the Capitol security operations, $62,031,000, of which 
$32,800,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
2026. 
BOTANIC GARDEN 
For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care 
and operation of the Botanic Garden and the nurseries, 
buildings, grounds, and collections; and purchase and ex-
change, maintenance, repair, and operation of a passenger 
motor vehicle; all under the direction of the Joint Com-
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mittee on the Library, $28,824,000, of which $14,100,000 
shall remain available until September 30, 2026: Provided, 
That, of the amount made available under this heading, 
the Architect of the Capitol may obligate and expend such 
sums as may be necessary for the maintenance, care and 
operation of the National Garden established under sec-
tion 307E of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 
1989 (2 U.S.C. 2146), upon vouchers approved by the Ar-
chitect of the Capitol or a duly authorized designee. 
CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER 
For all necessary expenses for the operation of the 
Capitol Visitor Center, $26,094,000. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
NO BONUSES FOR CONTRACTORS BEHIND SCHEDULE OR 
OVER BUDGET 
SEC. 115. None of the funds made available in this 
Act for the Architect of the Capitol may be used to make 
incentive or award payments to contractors for work on 
contracts or programs for which the contractor is behind 
schedule or over budget, unless the Architect of the Cap-
itol, or agency-employed designee, determines that any 
such deviations are due to unforeseeable events, govern-
ment-driven scope changes, or are not significant within 
the overall scope of the project and/or program. 
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For all necessary expenses of the Library of Congress 
not otherwise provided for, including development and 
maintenance of the Library’s catalogs; custody and custo-
dial care of the Library buildings; information technology 
services provided centrally; special clothing; cleaning, 
laundering and repair of uniforms; preservation of motion 
pictures in the custody of the Library; operation and 
maintenance of the American Folklife Center in the Li-
brary; preparation and distribution of catalog records and 
other publications of the Library; hire or purchase of one 
passenger motor vehicle; and expenses of the Library of 
Congress Trust Fund Board not properly chargeable to 
the income of any trust fund held by the Board, 
$548,317,000 (increased by $250,000), and, in addition, 
amounts credited to this appropriation during fiscal year 
2022 under the Act of June 28, 1902 (chapter 1301; 32 
Stat. 480; 2 U.S.C. 150), shall remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That the Library of Congress may not 
obligate or expend any funds derived from collections 
under the Act of June 28, 1902, in excess of the amount 
authorized for obligation or expenditure in appropriations 
Acts: Provided further, That of the total amount appro-
priated, not more than $18,000 may be expended, on the 
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certification of the Librarian of Congress, in connection 
with official representation and reception expenses, includ-
ing for the Overseas Field Offices: Provided further, That 
of the total amount appropriated, $9,661,000 shall remain 
available until expended for the Teaching with Primary 
Sources program: Provided further, That of the total 
amount appropriated, $1,419,000 shall remain available 
until expended for upgrade of the Legislative Branch Fi-
nancial Management System: Provided further, That of 
the total amount appropriated, $250,000 shall remain 
available until expended for the Surplus Books Program 
to promote the program and facilitate a greater number 
of donations to eligible entities across the United States: 
Provided further, That of the total amount appropriated, 
$3,831,000 shall remain available until expended for the 
Veterans History Project to continue digitization efforts 
of already collected materials, reach a greater number of 
veterans to record their stories, and promote public access 
to the Project: Provided further, That of the total amount 
appropriated, $10,000,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended for the Library’s Visitor Experience project, and 
may be obligated and expended only upon approval by the 
Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch of the Committee 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and by 
the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch of the Com-
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