106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4516
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001,
and for other purposes.
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4516
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, 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, 2001, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I—CONGRESSIONAL OPERATIONS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For salaries and expenses of the House of Represent-
atives, $769,551,000, as follows:
HOUSE LEADERSHIP OFFICES
For salaries and expenses, as authorized by law,
$14,378,000, 
including: 
Office 
of 
the 
Speaker,
$1,759,000, including $25,000 for official expenses of the
Speaker; Office of the Majority Floor Leader, $1,726,000,
including $10,000 for official expenses of the Majority
Leader; Office of the Minority Floor Leader, $2,096,000,
including $10,000 for official expenses of the Minority
Leader; Office of the Majority Whip, including the Chief
Deputy Majority Whip, $1,466,000, including $5,000 for
official expenses of the Majority Whip; Office of the Mi-
nority Whip, including the Chief Deputy Minority Whip,
$1,096,000, including $5,000 for official expenses of the
Minority Whip; Speaker’s Office for Legislative Floor Ac-
tivities, $410,000; Republican Steering Committee,
$765,000; Republican Conference, $1,225,000; Demo-
cratic Steering and Policy Committee, $1,352,000; Demo-
cratic Caucus, $668,000; nine minority employees,
$1,229,000; training and program development—majority
$278,000; and training and program development—mi-
nority, $278,000.
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,
$410,182,000.
COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES
STANDING COMMITTEES, SPECIAL AND SELECT
For salaries and expenses of standing committees,
special and select, authorized by House resolutions,
$92,196,000: Provided, That such amount shall remain
available for such salaries and expenses until December
31, 2002.
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
For salaries and expenses of the Committee on Ap-
propriations, $20,628,000, 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, 2002.
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
For compensation and expenses of officers and em-
ployees, as authorized by law, $90,403,000, including: for
salaries and expenses of the Office of the Clerk, including
not more than $3,500, of which not more than $2,500 is
for the Family Room, for official representation and recep-
tion expenses, $14,590,000; for salaries and expenses of
the Office of the Sergeant at Arms, including the position
of Superintendent of Garages, and including not more
than $750 for official representation and reception ex-
penses, $3,692,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office
of the Chief Administrative Officer, $58,550,000, of which
$1,054,000 shall remain available until expended, includ-
ing $26,605,000 for salaries, expenses and temporary per-
sonal services of House Information Resources, of which
$26,020,000 is provided herein: Provided, That of the
amount provided for House Information Resources,
$6,497,000 shall be for net expenses of telecommuni-
cations: Provided further, That House Information Re-
sources is authorized to receive reimbursement from Mem-
bers of the House of Representatives and other govern-
mental entities for services provided and such reimburse-
and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C.
254c).
SEC. 102. (a) PERMITTING NEW HOUSE EMPLOYEES
TO BE PLACED ABOVE MINIMUM STEP OF COMPENSA-
TION LEVEL.—The House Employees Position Classifica-
tion Act (2 U.S.C. 291 et seq.) is amended by striking
section 10 (2 U.S.C. 299).
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to employees ap-
pointed on or after October 1, 2000.
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
ALLOW-
ANCES’’ 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 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.
JOINT ITEMS
For Joint Committees, as follows:
JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Economic
Committee, $3,072,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary
of the Senate.
JOINT COMMITTEE ON TAXATION
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on
Taxation, $6,174,000, to be disbursed by the Chief Ad-
ministrative Officer of the House.
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 $1,500 per month to the Attending Physician; (2) an
allowance of $500 per month each to three medical officers
while on duty in the Office of the Attending Physician;
(3) an allowance of $500 per month to one assistant and
$400 per month each not to exceed 11 assistants on the
basis heretofore provided for such assistants; and (4)
$1,159,904 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, $1,835,000, to be dis-
bursed by the Chief Administrative Officer of the House.
CAPITOL POLICE BOARD
CAPITOL POLICE
SALARIES
For the Capitol Police Board for salaries of officers,
members, and employees of the Capitol Police, including
overtime, hazardous duty pay differential, clothing allow-
ance of not more than $600 each for members required
to wear civilian attire, and Government contributions for
health, retirement, Social Security, and other applicable
employee benefits, $92,769,000, of which $45,683,000 is
provided to the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Rep-
resentatives, to be disbursed by the Chief Administrative
Officer of the House, and $47,086,000 is provided to the
Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, to be
disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate: Provided, That,
of the amounts appropriated under this heading, such
amounts as may be necessary may be transferred between
the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives and
the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, upon
approval of the Committee on Appropriations of the House
of Representatives and the Committee on Appropriations
of the Senate.
GENERAL EXPENSES
For the Capitol Police Board for necessary expenses
of the Capitol Police, including motor vehicles, commu-
nications and other equipment, security equipment and in-
stallation, uniforms, weapons, supplies, materials, train-
ing, medical services, forensic services, stenographic serv-
ices, personal and professional services, the employee as-
sistance program, not more than $2,000 for the awards
program, postage, telephone service, travel advances, relo-
cation of instructor and liaison personnel for the Federal
Law Enforcement Training Center, and $85 per month
for extra services performed for the Capitol Police Board
by an employee of the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate
or the House of Representatives designated by the Chair-
man of the Board, $6,549,000, to be disbursed by the
Capitol Police Board or their delegee: Provided, That, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, the cost of basic
training for the Capitol Police at the Federal Law En-
forcement Training Center for fiscal year 2001 shall be
paid by the Secretary of the Treasury from funds available
to the Department of the Treasury.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
SEC. 104. Amounts appropriated for fiscal year 2001
for the Capitol Police Board for the Capitol Police may
be transferred between the headings ‘‘SALARIES’’ and
‘‘GENERAL EXPENSES’’ upon the approval of—
(1) the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives, in the case of amounts
transferred from the appropriation provided to the
Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives
under the heading ‘‘SALARIES’’;
(2) the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate, in the case of amounts transferred from the
appropriation provided to the Sergeant at Arms and
Doorkeeper of the Senate under the heading ‘‘SALA-
RIES’’; and
(3) the Committees on Appropriations of the
Senate and the House of Representatives, in the
case of other transfers.
SEC. 105. (a) APPOINTMENT OF CERTIFYING OFFI-
CERS OF THE CAPITOL POLICE.—The Chief Administra-
tive Officer of the United States Capitol Police, or when
there is not a Chief Administrative Officer the Capitol Po-
lice Board, shall appoint certifying officers to certify all
vouchers for payment from funds made available to the
United States Capitol Police.
(b) RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF CER-
TIFYING OFFICERS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Each officer or employee of
the Capitol Police who has been duly authorized in
writing by the Chief Administrative Officer, or the
Capitol Police Board if there is not a Chief Adminis-
trative Officer, to certify vouchers pursuant to sub-
section (a) shall—
(A) be held responsible for the existence
and correctness of the facts recited in the cer-
tificate or otherwise stated on the voucher or its
supporting papers and for the legality of the
proposed payment under the appropriation or
fund involved;
(B) be held responsible and accountable for
the correctness of the computations of certified
vouchers; and
(C) be held accountable for and required to
make good to the United States the amount of
any illegal, improper, or incorrect payment re-
sulting from any false, inaccurate, or mis-
leading certificate made by such officer or em-
ployee, as well as for any payment prohibited by
law or which did not represent a legal obligation
under the appropriation or fund involved.
(2) RELIEF BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL.—The
Comptroller General may, at the Comptroller Gen-
eral’s discretion, relieve such certifying officer or
employee of liability for any payment otherwise
proper if the Comptroller General finds—
(A) that the certification was based on of-
ficial records and that the certifying officer or
employee did not know, and by reasonable dili-
gence and inquiry could not have ascertained,
the actual facts; or
(B) that the obligation was incurred in
good faith, that the payment was not contrary
to any statutory provision specifically prohib-
iting payments of the character involved, and
the United States has received value for such
payment.
(c) ENFORCEMENT OF LIABILITY.—The liability of
the certifying officers of the United States Capitol Police
shall be enforced in the same manner and to the same
extent as currently provided with respect to the enforce-
ment of the liability of disbursing and other accountable
officers, and such officers shall have the right to apply
for and obtain a decision by the Comptroller General on
any question of law involved in a payment on any vouchers
presented to them for certification.
SEC. 106. CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER.—(a)
There shall be within the Capitol Police an Office of
Administration to be headed by a Chief Administrative
Officer:
(1) The Chief Administrative Officer shall be
appointed by the Comptroller General after consulta-
tion with the Capitol Police Board, and shall report
to and serve at the pleasure of the Comptroller Gen-
eral.
(2) The Comptroller General shall appoint as
Chief Administrative Officer an individual with the
knowledge and skills necessary to carry out the re-
sponsibilities for budgeting, financial management,
information technology, and human resource man-
agement described in this section.
(3) The Chief Administrative Officer shall re-
ceive basic pay at a rate determined by the Comp-
troller General, but not to exceed the annual rate of
basic pay payable for ES–2 of the Senior Executive
Service Basic Rates Schedule established for mem-
bers of the Senior Executive Service of the General
Accounting Office under section 733 of title 31.
(4) The Capitol Police shall reimburse from
available appropriations any costs incurred by the
General Accounting Office under this section.
(b) The Chief Administrative Officer shall have the
following areas of responsibility:
(1) BUDGETING.—The Chief Administrative Of-
ficer shall—
(A) after consulting with the Chief of Po-
lice on the portion of the budget covering uni-
formed police force personnel, prepare and sub-
mit to the Capitol Police Board an annual
budget for the Capitol Police; and
(B) execute the budget and monitor
through periodic examinations the execution of
the Capitol Police budget in relation to actual
obligations and expenditures.
(2) FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT.—The Chief Ad-
ministrative Officer shall—
(A) oversee all financial management ac-
tivities relating to the programs and operations
of the Capitol Police;
(B) develop and maintain an integrated ac-
counting and financial system for the Capitol
Police, including financial reporting and inter-
nal controls, which—
(i) complies with applicable account-
ing principles, standards, and require-
ments, and internal control standards;
(ii) complies with any other require-
ments applicable to such systems;
(iii) provides for—
(I) complete, reliable, consistent,
and timely information which is pre-
pared on a uniform basis and which is
responsive to financial information
needs of the Capitol Police;
(II) the development and report-
ing of cost information;
(III) the integration of account-
ing and budgeting information; and
(IV) the systematic measurement
of performance;
(C) direct, manage, and provide policy
guidance and oversight of Capitol Police finan-
cial management personnel, activities, and oper-
ations, including—
(i) the recruitment, selection, and
training of personnel to carry out Capitol
Police financial management functions;
and
(ii) the implementation of Capitol Po-
lice asset management systems, including
systems for cash management, debt collec-
tion, and property and inventory manage-
ment and control; and
(D) the Chief Administrative Officer shall
prepare annual financial statements for the
Capitol Police and provide for an annual audit
of the financial statements by an independent
public accountant in accordance with generally
accepted government auditing standards.
(3) INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY.—The Chief
Administrative Officer shall—
(A) direct, coordinate, and oversee the ac-
quisition, use, and management of information
technology by the Capitol Police;
(B) promote and oversee the use of infor-
mation technology to improve the efficiency and
effectiveness of programs of the Capitol Police;
and
(C) establish and enforce information tech-
nology principles, guidelines, and objectives, in-
cluding developing and maintaining an informa-
tion technology architecture for the Capitol Po-
lice.
(4) HUMAN RESOURCES.—The Chief Adminis-
trative Officer shall—
(A) direct, coordinate, and oversee human
resource management activities of the Capitol
Police, except that with respect to uniformed
police force personnel, the Chief Administrative
Officer shall perform these activities in coopera-
tion with the Chief of the Capitol Police;
(B) develop and monitor payroll and time
and attendance systems and employee services;
and
(C) develop and monitor processes for re-
cruiting, selecting, appraising, and promoting
employees.
(c) Administrative provisions with respect to the Of-
fice of Administration:
(1) The Chief Administrative Officer is author-
ized to select, appoint, employ, and discharge such
officers and employees as may be necessary to carry
out the functions, powers, and duties of the Office
of Administration but he shall not have the author-
ity to hire or discharge uniformed police force per-
sonnel.
(2) The Chief Administrative Officer may uti-
lize resources of another agency on a reimbursable
basis to be paid from available appropriations of the
Capitol Police.
(d) No later than 180 days after appointment, the
Chief Administrative Officer shall prepare, after consulta-
tion with the Capitol Police Board and the Chief of the
Capitol Police, a plan—
(1) describing the policies, procedures, and ac-
tions the Chief Administrative Officer will take in
carrying out the responsibilities assigned under this
section;
(2) identifying and defining responsibilities and
roles of all offices, bureaus, and divisions of the
Capitol Police for budgeting, financial management,
information technology, and human resources man-
agement; and
(3) detailing mechanisms for ensuring that the
offices, bureaus, and divisions perform their respon-
sibilities and roles in a coordinated and integrated
manner.
(e) No later than September 30, 2001, the Chief Ad-
ministrative Officer shall prepare, after consultation with
the Capitol Police Board and the Chief of the Capitol Po-
lice, a report on the Chief Administrative Officer’s
part of such amount may be used to employ more than
43 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 One Hundred Sixth Congress, showing appro-
priations made, indefinite appropriations, and contracts
authorized, together with a chronological history of the
regular appropriations Acts as required by law, $29,000,
to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of
such committees to supervise the work.
OFFICE OF COMPLIANCE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For salaries and expenses of the Office of Compli-
ance, as authorized by section 305 of the Congressional
Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1385), $1,816,000.
CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For salaries and expenses necessary to carry out the
provisions of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (Pub-
lic Law 93–344), including not more than $3,000 to be
expended on the certification of the Director of the Con-
gressional Budget Office in connection with official rep-
resentation and reception expenses, $27,403,000: Pro-
vided, That no part of such amount may be used for the
purchase or hire of a passenger motor vehicle.
ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
CAPITOL BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
CAPITOL BUILDINGS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For salaries for the Architect of the Capitol, the As-
sistant Architect of the Capitol, and other personal serv-
ices, at rates of pay provided by law; for surveys and stud-
ies in connection with activities under the care of the Ar-
chitect of the Capitol; for all necessary expenses for the
maintenance, care and operation of the Capitol and elec-
trical substations of the Senate and House office buildings
under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol, in-
cluding furnishings and office equipment, including not
more than $1,000 for official reception and representation
expenses, to be expended as the Architect of the Capitol
may approve; for purchase or exchange, maintenance and
operation of a passenger motor vehicle; and not to exceed
$20,000 for attendance, when specifically authorized by
the Architect of the Capitol, at meetings or conventions
in connection with subjects related to work under the Ar-
chitect of the Capitol, $44,234,000, of which $4,280,000
shall remain available until expended.
CAPITOL GROUNDS
For all necessary expenses for care and improvement
of grounds surrounding the Capitol, the Senate and House
office buildings, and the Capitol Power Plant, $5,217,000,
of which $25,000 shall remain available until expended.
HOUSE OFFICE BUILDINGS
For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care
and operation of the House office buildings, $32,750,000,
of which $123,000 shall remain available until expended.
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
Printing 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,
$39,151,000, of which $200,000 shall remain available
until expended: Provided, That not more than $4,400,000
of the funds credited or to be reimbursed to this appro-
priation as herein provided shall be available for obligation
during fiscal year 2001.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of section 203 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of
1946 (2 U.S.C. 166) and to revise and extend the Anno-
tated Constitution of the United States of America,
$73,810,000: Provided, That no part of such amount may
be used to pay any salary or expense in connection with
any publication, or preparation of material therefor (ex-
cept the Digest of Public General Bills), to be issued by
the Library of Congress unless such publication has ob-
tained prior approval of either the Committee on House
Administration of the House of Representatives or the
Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For authorized printing and binding for the Congress
and the distribution of Congressional information in any
format; printing and binding of Government publications
authorized by law to be distributed to Members of Con-
gress, $69,626,000: Provided, That this appropriation
shall not be available for paper copies of the permanent
edition of the Congressional Record for individual Sen-
ators, Representatives, Resident Commissioners or Dele-
gates authorized under 44 U.S.C. 906: Provided further,
That this appropriation shall be available for the payment
of obligations incurred under the appropriations for simi-
lar purposes for preceding fiscal years: Provided further,
That notwithstanding the 2-year limitation under section
718 of title 44, United States Code, none of the funds
appropriated or made available under this Act or any
other Act for printing and binding and related services
provided to Congress under chapter 7 of title 44, United
States Code, may be expended to print a document, report,
or publication after the 27-month period beginning on the
date that such document, report, or publication is author-
ized by Congress to be printed, unless Congress reauthor-
izes such printing in accordance with section 718 of title
44, United States Code: Provided further, That any unob-
ligated or unexpended balances in this account or accounts
for similar purposes for preceding fiscal years may be
transferred to the Government Printing Office revolving
fund for carrying out the purposes of this heading, subject
to the approval of the Committees on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives and Senate.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION
SEC. 107. (a) CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BIND-
ING THROUGH CLERK OF HOUSE AND SECRETARY OF
SENATE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any provi-
sion of title 44, United States Code, or any other
law, there are authorized to be appropriated to the
Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Sec-
retary of the Senate such sums as may be necessary
for congressional printing and binding services.
(2) PREPARATION OF ESTIMATES.—Estimated
expenditures and proposed appropriations for con-
gressional printing and binding services shall be pre-
pared and submitted by the Clerk of the House of
Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate in