(B) whose annual rate of pay is not estab-
lished specifically under any law. 
(3) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Section 1009 of the 
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2003 
(Public Law 108–7; 117 Stat. 359) is repealed. 
(B) EFFECTIVE
DATE.—The amendment 
made by subparagraph (A) shall take effect as 
if included in the enactment of the Legislative 
Branch Appropriations Act, 2003, except that 
the amendment shall not apply with respect to 
any overtime work performed prior to the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
(c) AUTHORITY TO SUSPEND EMPLOYEES FOR AP-
PROPRIATE REASONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 1018(e)(1)(A) of the 
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2003 (2 
U.S.C. 1907(e)(1)(A)) is amended by inserting ‘‘sus-
pend with or without pay,’’ after ‘‘hire,’’. 
(2) REPEAL
OF
RELATED
OBSOLETE
PROVI-
SIONS.—(A) Section 1823 of the Revised Statutes of 
the United States (2 U.S.C. 1928) is hereby re-
pealed. 
(B) The proviso in the Act of Mar. 3, 1875 (ch. 
129; 18 Stat. 345.), popularly known as the ‘‘Legis-
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lature, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act, 
fiscal year 1876’’, which is codified at section 1929 
of title 2, United States Code (2000 Editions, Supp. 
V), is repealed. 
SEC. 5. OTHER MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL CORREC-
TIONS. 
(a) REPEAL OF OBSOLETE PROCEDURES FOR INI-
TIAL APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFI-
CER.—Section 108 of the Legislative Branch Appropria-
tions Act, 2001 (2 U.S.C. 1903) is amended by striking 
subsections (d) through (g). 
(b) REPEAL
OF REQUIREMENT THAT OFFICERS 
PURCHASE OWN UNIFORMS.—Section 1825 of the Re-
vised Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 1943) is 
repealed. 
(c) REPEAL OF REFERENCES TO OFFICERS AND PRI-
VATES IN AUTHORITIES RELATING TO HOUSE AND SEN-
ATE OFFICE BUILDINGS.— 
(1) HOUSE OFFICE BUILDINGS.—The item re-
lating to ‘‘House of Representatives Office Building’’ 
in the Act entitled ‘‘An Act making appropriations 
for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the 
fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 
and eight, and for other purposes’’, approved March 
4, 1907 (34 Stat. 1365; 2 U.S.C. 2001), is amended 
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by striking ‘‘other than officers and privates of the 
Capitol police’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘other than the United States Capitol Police’’. 
(2) SENATE OFFICE BUILDINGS.—The item re-
lating to ‘‘Senate Office Building’’ in the Legislative 
Branch Appropriation Act, 1943 (56 Stat. 343; 2 
U.S.C. 2023) is amended by striking ‘‘other than for 
officers and privates of the Capitol Police’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘other than for the 
United States Capitol Police’’. 
(d) CLARIFICATION OF APPLICABILITY OF U.S. CAP-
ITOL POLICE AND LIBRARY OF CONGRESS POLICE MERG-
ER IMPLEMENTATION ACT OF 2007.— 
(1) REPEAL OF DUPLICATE PROVISIONS.—Ef-
fective as if included in the enactment of the Legis-
lative Branch Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 
110–161), section 1004 of such Act is repealed, and 
any provision of law amended or repealed by such 
section is restored or revived to read as if such sec-
tion had not been enacted into law. 
(2) NO EFFECT ON OTHER ACT.—Nothing in 
paragraph (1) may be construed to prevent the en-
actment or implementation of any provision of the 
U.S. Capitol Police and Library of Congress Police 
Merger Implementation Act of 2007 (Public Law 
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110–178), including any provision of such Act that 
amends or repeals a provision of law which is re-
stored or revived pursuant to paragraph (1). 
(e) AUTHORITY OF CHIEF OF POLICE.— 
(1) REPEAL OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS CODIFIED 
IN TITLE 2, UNITED STATES CODE.—The provisions 
appearing in the first paragraph under the heading 
‘‘Capitol Police’’ in the Act of April 28, 1902 (ch. 
594, 32 Stat. 124), and the provisions appearing in 
the first paragraph under the heading ‘‘Capitol Po-
lice’’ in title I of the Legislative and Judiciary Ap-
propriation Act, 1944 (ch. 173, 57 Stat. 230), inso-
far as all of those provisions are related to the sen-
tence ‘‘The captain and lieutenants shall be selected 
jointly by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and 
the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representa-
tives; and one-half of the privates shall be selected 
by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and one-half 
by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Represent-
atives.’’, which appears in 2 U.S.C. 1901 (2000 Edi-
tion, Supp. V), are repealed. 
(2) RESTORATION OF REPEALED PROVISION.— 
Section 1018(h)(1) of the Legislative Branch Appro-
priations Act, 2003 (Public Law 108–7, div. H, title 
I, 117 Stat. 368) is repealed, and the sentence ‘‘The 
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Capitol Police shall be headed by a Chief who shall 
be appointed by the Capitol Police Board and shall 
serve at the pleasure of the Board.’’, which was re-
pealed by such section, is restored to appear at the 
end of section 1821 of the Revised Statutes of the 
United States (2 U.S.C. 1901). 
(3) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The first sen-
tence of section 1821 of the Revised Statutes of the 
United States (2 U.S.C. 1901) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘, the members of which shall be appointed by 
the Sergeants-at-Arms of the two Houses and the 
Architect of the Capitol Extension’’. 
(4) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 
by this subsection shall take effect as if included in 
the enactment of the Legislative Branch Appropria-
tions Act, 2003. 
Æ 
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