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salaries and expenses of the Office of the Parliamentarian, 
including the Parliamentarian, $2,000 for preparing the 
Digest of Rules, and not more than $1,000 for official rep-
resentation and reception expenses, $2,007,000; for sala-
ries and expenses of the Office of the Law Revision Coun-
sel of the House, $3,057,000; for salaries and expenses 
of the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the House, 
$8,337,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Interparliamentary Affairs, $777,000; for other author-
ized employees, $1,158,000; and for salaries and expenses 
of the Office of the Historian, including the costs of the 
House Fellows Program (including lodging and related ex-
penses for visiting Program participants), $519,000. 
ALLOWANCES AND EXPENSES 
For allowances and expenses as authorized by House 
resolution or law, $293,900,000, including: supplies, mate-
rials, administrative costs and Federal tort claims, 
$11,656,000, of which $2,500,000 shall remain available 
until expended; official mail for committees, leadership of-
fices, and administrative offices of the House, $201,000; 
Government contributions for health, retirement, Social 
Security, 
and 
other 
applicable 
employee 
benefits, 
$260,703,000; supplies, materials, and other costs relating 
to the House portion of expenses for the Capitol Visitor 
Center, $1,900,000, to remain available until expended; 
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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, $18,698,000, 
of which $6,260,000 shall remain available until expended; 
and miscellaneous items including purchase, exchange, 
maintenance, repair and operation of House motor vehi-
cles, interparliamentary receptions, and gratuities to heirs 
of deceased employees of the House, $742,000. 
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. 2062), 
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 2009. Any 
amount remaining after all payments are made under such 
allowances for fiscal year 2009 shall be deposited in the 
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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. (a) The Chief Administrative Officer of the 
House of Representatives shall deposit all amounts re-
ceived as promotional rebates and incentives on credit card 
purchases, balances, and payments into the House Serv-
ices Revolving Fund under section 105 of the Legislative 
Branch Appropriations Act, 2005. 
(b) Section 105(a) of the Legislative Branch Appro-
priations Act, 2005 (2 U.S.C. 117m(a)) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(6) The collection of promotional rebates and 
incentives on credit card purchases, balances, and 
payments.’’. 
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(c) The amendments made by this section shall apply 
with respect to fiscal year 2009 and each succeeding fiscal 
year. 
SEC. 103. (a) Section 101 of the Legislative Branch 
Appropriations Act, 1993 (2 U.S.C. 95b) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(d) Amounts appropriated for any fiscal year for the 
House of Representatives under the heading ‘Allowances 
and Expenses’ may be transferred to the Architect of the 
Capitol and made available under the heading ‘House Of-
fice Buildings’, subject to the approval of the Committee 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.’’. 
(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to fiscal year 2009 and each succeeding 
fiscal year. 
SEC. 104. (a) Effective with respect to fiscal year 
2008 and each succeeding fiscal year, the aggregate 
amount otherwise authorized to be appropriated for a fis-
cal year for the lump-sum allowance for each of the fol-
lowing offices is increased as follows: 
(1) The allowance for the office of the Majority 
Floor Leader is increased by $200,000. 
(2) The allowance for the office of the Minority 
Floor Leader is increased by $200,000. 
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