108TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4755
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005,
and for other purposes.
108TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4755
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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, 2005, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I—LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
APPROPRIATIONS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For salaries and expenses of the House of Represent-
atives, $1,044,281,000, as follows:
HOUSE LEADERSHIP OFFICES
For salaries and expenses, as authorized by law,
$18,678,000, 
including: 
Office 
of 
the 
Speaker,
$2,708,000, including $25,000 for official expenses of the
Speaker; Office of the Majority Floor Leader, $2,027,000,
including $10,000 for official expenses of the Majority
Leader; Office of the Minority Floor Leader, $2,840,000,
including $10,000 for official expenses of the Minority
Leader; Office of the Majority Whip, including the Chief
Deputy Majority Whip, $1,741,000, including $5,000 for
official expenses of the Majority Whip; Office of the Mi-
nority Whip, including the Chief Deputy Minority Whip,
$1,303,000, including $5,000 for official expenses of the
Minority Whip; Speaker’s Office for Legislative Floor Ac-
tivities, $470,000; Republican Steering Committee,
$881,000; Republican Conference, $1,500,000; Demo-
cratic Steering and Policy Committee, $1,589,000; Demo-
cratic Caucus, $792,000; nine minority employees,
$1,409,000; training and program development—major-
ity, $290,000; training and program development—minor-
ity, $290,000; Cloakroom Personnel—majority, $419,000;
and Cloakroom Personnel—minority, $419,000.
MEMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES
INCLUDING MEMBERS’ CLERK HIRE, OFFICIAL
EXPENSES OF MEMBERS, AND OFFICIAL MAIL
For Members’ representational allowances, including
Members’ clerk hire, official expenses, and official mail,
$521,195,000.
COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES
STANDING COMMITTEES, SPECIAL AND SELECT
For salaries and expenses of standing committees,
special and select, authorized by House resolutions,
$114,299,000: Provided, That such amount shall remain
available for such salaries and expenses until December
31, 2006.
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
For salaries and expenses of the Committee on Ap-
propriations, $24,926,000, including studies and examina-
tions of executive agencies and temporary personal serv-
ices for such committee, to be expended in accordance with
section 202(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of
1946 and to be available for reimbursement to agencies
for services performed: Provided, That such amount shall
remain available for such salaries and expenses until De-
cember 31, 2006.
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
For compensation and expenses of officers and em-
ployees, as authorized by law, $160,133,000, including:
for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Clerk, includ-
ing not more than $13,000, of which not more than
$10,000 is for the Family Room, for official representa-
tion and reception expenses, $20,534,000; for salaries and
expenses of the Office of the Sergeant at Arms, including
the position of Superintendent of Garages, and including
not more than $3,000 for official representation and re-
ception expenses, $5,879,000; for salaries and expenses of
the 
Office 
of 
the 
Chief 
Administrative 
Officer,
$116,034,000, of which $7,500,000 shall remain available
until expended; for salaries and expenses of the Office of
the Inspector General, $3,986,000; for salaries and ex-
penses of the Office of Emergency Planning, Preparedness
and Operations, $1,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended; for salaries and expenses of the Office of General
Counsel, $962,000; for the Office of the Chaplain,
$155,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of the
Parliamentarian, including the Parliamentarian and
$2,000 for preparing the Digest of Rules, $1,673,000; for
salaries and expenses of the Office of the Law Revision
Counsel of the House, $2,346,000; for salaries and ex-
penses of the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the
House, $6,721,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office
of Interparliamentary Affairs, $687,000; and for other au-
thorized employees, $156,000.
ALLOWANCES AND EXPENSES
For allowances and expenses as authorized by House
resolution or law, $205,050,000, including: supplies, mate-
rials, administrative costs and Federal tort claims,
$4,350,000; official mail for committees, leadership of-
fices, and administrative offices of the House, $410,000;
Government contributions for health, retirement, Social
Security, 
and 
other 
applicable 
employee 
benefits,
$199,600,000; and miscellaneous items including pur-
chase, exchange, maintenance, repair and operation of
House motor vehicles, interparliamentary receptions, and
gratuities to heirs of deceased employees of the House,
$690,000.
CHILD CARE CENTER
For salaries and expenses of the House of Represent-
atives Child Care Center, such amounts as are deposited
in the account established by section 312(d)(1) of the Leg-
islative Branch Appropriations Act, 1992 (2 U.S.C. 2112),
subject to the level specified in the budget of the Center,
as submitted to the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
SEC. 101. (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
ALLOW-
ANCES’’ shall be available only for fiscal year 2005. Any
amount remaining after all payments are made under such
allowances for fiscal year 2005 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 Ad-
ministration 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 Rep-
resentative in, or a Delegate or Resident Commissioner
to, the Congress.
SEC. 102. NET
EXPENSES
OF
TELECOMMUNI-
CATIONS REVOLVING FUND. (a) There is hereby estab-
lished in the Treasury of the United States a revolving
fund for the House of Representatives to be known as the
Net Expenses of Telecommunications Revolving Fund
(hereafter in this section referred to as the ‘‘Revolving
Fund’’), consisting of funds deposited by the Chief Admin-
istrative Officer of the House of Representatives from
amounts provided by legislative branch offices to purchase,
lease, obtain, and maintain the data and voice tele-
communications services and equipment located in such
offices.
(b) Amounts in the Revolving Fund shall be used by
the Chief Administrative Officer without fiscal year limita-
tion to purchase, lease, obtain, and maintain the data and
voice telecommunications services and equipment of legis-
lative branch offices.
(c) The Revolving Fund shall be treated as a category
of allowances and expenses for purposes of section 101(a)
of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1993 (2
U.S.C. 95b(a)).
(d) Section 306 of the Legislative Branch Appropria-
tions Act, 1989 (2 U.S.C. 117f) is amended—
(1) by striking subsection (b) and redesignating
subsection (c) as subsection (b); and
(2) in subsection (b) (as so redesignated), by
striking ‘‘subsections (a) and (b)’’ and inserting
‘‘subsection (a)’’.
(e) Section 102 of the Legislative Branch Appropria-
tions Act, 2003 (2 U.S.C. 112g) is amended by adding
at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(e) This section shall not apply with respect to any
telecommunications equipment which is subject to cov-
erage under section 103 of the Legislative Branch Appro-
priations Act, 2005 (relating to the Net Expenses of Tele-
communications Revolving Fund).’’.
(f) This section and the amendments made by this
section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2005 and
each succeeding fiscal year, except that for purposes of
making deposits into the Revolving Fund under subsection
(a), the Chief Administrative Officer may deposit amounts
provided by legislative branch offices during fiscal year
2004 or any succeeding fiscal year.
SEC. 103. CONTRACT FOR EXERCISE FACILITY. (a)
IN GENERAL.—The Chief Administrative Officer of the
House of Representatives shall enter into a contract on
a competitive basis with a private entity for the manage-
ment, operation, and maintenance of the exercise facility
established for the use of employees of the House of Rep-
resentatives which is constructed with funds made avail-
able under this Act.
(b) USE OF FEES TO SUPPORT CONTRACT.—Any
amounts paid as fees for the use of the exercise facility
described in subsection (a) shall be used to cover costs
incurred by the Chief Administrative Officer under the
contract entered into under this section or to otherwise
support the management, operation, and maintenance of
the facility, and shall remain available until expended.
SEC. 104. SENSE OF THE HOUSE. It is the sense of
the House of Representatives that Members of the House
who use vehicles in traveling for official and representa-
tional purposes, including Members who lease vehicles for
which the lease payments are made using funds provided
under the Members’ Representational Allowance, are en-
couraged to use hybrid electric and alternatively fueled ve-
hicles whenever possible, as the use of these vehicles will
help to move our Nation toward the use of a hydrogen
fuel cell vehicle and reduce our dependence on oil.
JOINT ITEMS
For Joint Committees, as follows:
JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Economic
Committee, $4,139,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary
of the Senate.
JOINT COMMITTEE ON TAXATION
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on
Taxation, $8,433,000, to be disbursed by the Chief Ad-
ministrative Officer of the House of Representatives.
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 $2,175 per month to the Attending Physician; (2) an
allowance of $725 per month each to four medical officers
while on duty in the Office of the Attending Physician;
(3) an allowance of $725 per month to two assistants and
$580 per month each not to exceed 11 assistants on the
basis heretofore provided for such assistants; and (4)
$1,680,000 for reimbursement to the Department of the
Navy for expenses incurred for staff and equipment as-
signed to the Office of the Attending Physician, which
shall be advanced and credited to the applicable appropria-
tion or appropriations from which such salaries, allow-
ances, and other expenses are payable and shall be avail-
able for all the purposes thereof, $2,528,000, to be dis-
bursed by the Chief Administrative Officer of the House
of Representatives.
CAPITOL GUIDE SERVICE AND SPECIAL SERVICES
OFFICE
For salaries and expenses of the Capitol Guide Serv-
ice and Special Services Office, $3,844,000, to be dis-
bursed by the Secretary of the Senate: Provided, That no
part of such amount may be used to employ more than
58 individuals: Provided further, That the Capitol Guide
Board is authorized, during emergencies, to employ not
more than two additional individuals for not more than
120 days each, and not more than 10 additional individ-
uals for not more than 6 months each, for the Capitol
Guide Service.
STATEMENTS OF APPROPRIATIONS
For the preparation, under the direction of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House
of Representatives, of the statements for the second ses-
sion of the 108th Congress, showing appropriations made,
indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, to-
gether with a chronological history of the regular appro-
priations bills as required by law, $30,000, to be paid to
the persons designated by the chairmen of such commit-
tees to supervise the work.