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$1,797,000, including $5,000 for official expenses of the Majority 
Whip; Office of the Minority Whip, including the Chief Deputy 
Minority Whip, $1,345,000, including $5,000 for official expenses 
of the Minority Whip; Speaker’s Office for Legislative Floor Activi-
ties, $482,000; Republican Steering Committee, $906,000; Repub-
lican 
Conference, 
$1,548,000; 
Republican 
Policy 
Committee, 
$307,000; Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, $1,945,000; 
Democratic Caucus, $816,000; nine minority employees, $1,445,000; 
training and program development—majority, $290,000; training 
and program development—minority, $290,000; Cloakroom Per-
sonnel—majority, $434,000; and Cloakroom Personnel—minority, 
$434,000.
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, $542,109,000.
COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES 
STANDING COMMITTEES, SPECIAL AND SELECT 
For salaries and expenses of standing committees, special and 
select, authorized by House resolutions, $117,913,000: 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 Appropriations, 
$25,668,000, including studies and examinations of executive agen-
cies and temporary personal services 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 
December 31, 2006. 
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
For compensation and expenses of officers and employees, as 
authorized by law, $172,249,000, including: for salaries and 
expenses of the Office of the Clerk, including not more than $13,000, 
of which not more than $10,000 is for the Family Room, for official 
representation and reception expenses, $21,911,000; 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 reception expenses, 
$6,284,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Chief 
Administrative Officer, $121,471,000, of which $7,806,000 shall 
remain available until expended; for salaries and expenses of the 
Office of the Inspector General, $3,991,000; for salaries and 
expenses of the Office of Emergency Planning, Preparedness and 
Operations, $5,000,000, to remain available until expended; for 
salaries and expenses of the Office of General Counsel, $962,000;
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for the Office of the Chaplain, $161,000; for salaries and expenses 
of the Office of the Parliamentarian, including the Parliamentarian 
and $2,000 for preparing the Digest of Rules, $1,767,000; for salaries 
and expenses of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the 
House, $2,453,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
Legislative Counsel of the House, $6,963,000; for salaries and 
expenses of the Office of Interparliamentary Affairs, $720,000; for 
other authorized employees, $161,000; and for salaries and expenses 
of the Office of the Historian, $405,000. 
ALLOWANCES AND EXPENSES 
For allowances and expenses as authorized by House resolution 
or law, $223,124,000, including: supplies, materials, administrative 
costs and Federal tort claims, $4,179,000; official mail for commit-
tees, leadership offices, and administrative offices of the House, 
$410,000; Government contributions for health, retirement, Social 
Security, and other applicable employee benefits, $214,422,000; sup-
plies, materials, and other costs relating to the House portion 
of expenses for the Capitol Visitor Center, $3,410,000, to remain 
available until expended; 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, $703,000. 
CHILD CARE CENTER 
For salaries and expenses of the House of Representatives 
Child Care Center, such amounts as are deposited in the account 
established by section 312(d)(1) of the Legislative Branch Appropria-
tions Act, 1992 (2 U.S.C. 2112), subject to the level specified in 
the budget of the Center, as submitted to the Committee on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
SEC. 101. (a) REQUIRING AMOUNTS REMAINING IN MEMBERS’ 
REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES TO BE USED FOR DEFICIT REDUC-
TION
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 2006. Any amount remaining after all payments 
are made under such allowances for fiscal year 2006 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. 
JOINT ITEMS 
For Joint Committees, as follows: