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SEC. 705. Appropriations available to any department or agency 
during the current fiscal year for necessary expenses, including 
maintenance or operating expenses, shall also be available for pay-
ment to the General Services Administration for charges for space 
and services and those expenses of renovation and alteration of 
buildings and facilities which constitute public improvements per-
formed in accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (73 
Stat. 479), the Public Buildings Amendments of 1972 (86 Stat. 
216), or other applicable law. 
SEC. 706. In addition to funds provided in this or any other 
Act, all Federal agencies are authorized to receive and use funds 
resulting from the sale of materials, including Federal records dis-
posed of pursuant to a records schedule recovered through recycling 
or waste prevention programs. Such funds shall be available until 
expended for the following purposes: 
(1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention, and 
recycling programs as described in Executive Order No. 13423 
(January 24, 2007), including any such programs adopted prior 
to the effective date of the Executive order. 
(2) Other Federal agency environmental management pro-
grams, including, but not limited to, the development and 
implementation of hazardous waste management and pollution 
prevention programs. 
(3) Other employee programs as authorized by law or as 
deemed appropriate by the head of the Federal agency. 
SEC. 707. Funds made available by this or any other Act for 
administrative expenses in the current fiscal year of the corpora-
tions and agencies subject to chapter 91 of title 31, United States 
Code, shall be available, in addition to objects for which such 
funds are otherwise available, for rent in the District of Columbia; 
services in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified 
under this head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable 
to the expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in 
the Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in the 
event any functions budgeted as administrative expenses are subse-
quently transferred to or paid from other funds, the limitations 
on administrative expenses shall be correspondingly reduced. 
SEC. 708. No part of any appropriation contained in this or 
any other Act shall be available for interagency financing of boards 
(except Federal Executive Boards), commissions, councils, commit-
tees, or similar groups (whether or not they are interagency entities) 
which do not have a prior and specific statutory approval to receive 
financial support from more than one agency or instrumentality. 
SEC. 709. None of the funds made available pursuant to the 
provisions of this Act shall be used to implement, administer, or 
enforce any regulation which has been disapproved pursuant to 
a joint resolution duly adopted in accordance with the applicable 
law of the United States. 
SEC. 710. During the period in which the head of any depart-
ment or agency, or any other officer or civilian employee of the 
Federal Government appointed by the President of the United 
States, holds office, no funds may be obligated or expended in 
excess of $5,000 to furnish or redecorate the office of such depart-
ment head, agency head, officer, or employee, or to purchase fur-
niture or make improvements for any such office, unless advance 
notice of such furnishing or redecoration is transmitted to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and
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the Senate. For the purposes of this section, the term ‘‘office’’ 
shall include the entire suite of offices assigned to the individual, 
as well as any other space used primarily by the individual or 
the use of which is directly controlled by the individual. 
SEC. 711. Notwithstanding section 31 U.S.C. 1346, or section 
708 of this Act, funds made available for the current fiscal year 
by this or any other Act shall be available for the interagency 
funding of national security and emergency preparedness tele-
communications initiatives which benefit multiple Federal depart-
ments, agencies, or entities, as provided by Executive Order No. 
12472 (April 3, 1984). 
SEC. 712. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this or any 
other Act may be obligated or expended by any Federal department, 
agency, or other instrumentality for the salaries or expenses of 
any employee appointed to a position of a confidential or policy- 
determining character excepted from the competitive service pursu-
ant to 5 U.S.C. 3302, without a certification to the Office of Per-
sonnel Management from the head of the Federal department, 
agency, or other instrumentality employing the Schedule C 
appointee that the Schedule C position was not created solely 
or primarily in order to detail the employee to the White House. 
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to Federal 
employees or members of the armed forces detailed to or from— 
(1) the Central Intelligence Agency; 
(2) the National Security Agency; 
(3) the Defense Intelligence Agency; 
(4) the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; 
(5) the offices within the Department of Defense for the 
collection of specialized national foreign intelligence through 
reconnaissance programs; 
(6) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Depart-
ment of State; 
(7) any agency, office, or unit of the Army, Navy, Air 
Force, or Marine Corps, the Department of Homeland Security, 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Drug Enforcement 
Administration of the Department of Justice, the Department 
of Transportation, the Department of the Treasury, or the 
Department of Energy performing intelligence functions; or 
(8) the Director of National Intelligence or the Office of 
the Director of National Intelligence. 
SEC. 713. No part of any appropriation contained in this or 
any other Act shall be available for the payment of the salary 
of any officer or employee of the Federal Government, who— 
(1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threatens to pro-
hibit or prevent, any other officer or employee of the Federal 
Government from having any direct oral or written communica-
tion or contact with any Member, committee, or subcommittee 
of the Congress in connection with any matter pertaining to 
the employment of such other officer or employee or pertaining 
to the department or agency of such other officer or employee 
in any way, irrespective of whether such communication or 
contact is at the initiative of such other officer or employee 
or in response to the request or inquiry of such Member, com-
mittee, or subcommittee; or
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(2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, demotes, 
reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or performance or effi-
ciency rating, denies promotion to, relocates, reassigns, trans-
fers, disciplines, or discriminates in regard to any employment 
right, entitlement, or benefit, or any term or condition of 
employment of, any other officer or employee of the Federal 
Government, or attempts or threatens to commit any of the 
foregoing actions with respect to such other officer or employee, 
by reason of any communication or contact of such other officer 
or employee with any Member, committee, or subcommittee 
of the Congress as described in paragraph (1). 
SEC. 714. (a) None of the funds made available in this or 
any other Act may be obligated or expended for any employee 
training that— 
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, 
and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official 
duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of emo-
tional response or psychological stress in some participants; 
(3) does not require prior employee notification of the con-
tent and methods to be used in the training and written end 
of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated with reli-
gious or quasi-religious belief systems or ‘‘new age’’ belief sys-
tems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 
Notice N–915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants’ 
personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or otherwise 
preclude an agency from conducting training bearing directly upon 
the performance of official duties. 
SEC. 715. (a) No funds appropriated in this or any other Act 
may be used to implement or enforce the agreements in Standard 
Forms 312 and 4414 of the Government or any other nondisclosure 
policy, form, or agreement if such policy, form, or agreement does 
not contain the following provisions: ‘‘These restrictions are con-
sistent with and do not supersede, conflict with, or otherwise alter 
the employee obligations, rights, or liabilities created by Executive 
Order No. 12958; section 7211 of title 5, United States Code (gov-
erning disclosures to Congress); section 1034 of title 10, United 
States Code, as amended by the Military Whistleblower Protection 
Act (governing disclosure to Congress by members of the military); 
section 2302(b)(8) of title 5, United States Code, as amended by 
the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 (governing disclosures 
of illegality, waste, fraud, abuse or public health or safety threats); 
the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 (50 U.S.C. 421 
et seq.) (governing disclosures that could expose confidential 
Government agents); and the statutes which protect against disclo-
sure that may compromise the national security, including sections 
641, 793, 794, 798, and 952 of title 18, United States Code, and 
section 4(b) of the Subversive Activities Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 
783(b)). The definitions, requirements, obligations, rights, sanctions, 
and liabilities created by said Executive order and listed statutes 
are incorporated into this agreement and are controlling.’’: Provided, 
That notwithstanding the preceding provision of this section, a 
nondisclosure policy form or agreement that is to be executed by
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a person connected with the conduct of an intelligence or intel-
ligence-related activity, other than an employee or officer of the 
United States Government, may contain provisions appropriate to 
the particular activity for which such document is to be used. 
Such form or agreement shall, at a minimum, require that the 
person will not disclose any classified information received in the 
course of such activity unless specifically authorized to do so by 
the United States Government. Such nondisclosure forms shall 
also make it clear that they do not bar disclosures to Congress, 
or to an authorized official of an executive agency or the Department 
of Justice, that are essential to reporting a substantial violation 
of law. 
(b) Effective 180 days after enactment of this Act, subsection 
(a) is amended by— 
(1) striking ‘‘Executive Order No. 12958’’ and inserting 
‘‘Executive Order No. 13526 (75 Fed. Reg. 707), or any successor 
thereto’’; 
(2) after ‘‘the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 
(50 U.S.C. 421 et seq.) (governing disclosures that could expose 
confidential Government agents);’’ inserting ‘‘sections 7(c) and 
8H of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) (relating 
to disclosures to an inspector general, the inspectors general 
of 
the 
Intelligence 
Community, 
and 
Congress); 
section 
103H(g)(3) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
403–3h(g)(3) (relating to disclosures to the inspector general 
of the Intelligence Community); sections 17(d)(5) and 17(e)(3) 
of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 
403q(d)(5) and 403q(e)(3)) (relating to disclosures to the 
Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency and Con-
gress);’’; and 
(3) after ‘‘Subversive Activities’’ inserting ‘‘Control’’. 
(c) A nondisclosure agreement entered into before the effective 
date of the amendment in subsection (b) may continue to be imple-
mented and enforced after that effective date if it complies with 
the requirements of subsection (a) that were in effect prior to 
the effective date of the amendment in subsection (b). 
SEC. 716. No part of any funds appropriated in this or any 
other Act shall be used by an agency of the executive branch, 
other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative relation-
ships, for publicity or propaganda purposes, and for the preparation, 
distribution or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, 
television, or film presentation designed to support or defeat legisla-
tion pending before the Congress, except in presentation to the 
Congress itself. 
SEC. 717. None of the funds appropriated by this or any other 
Act may be used by an agency to provide a Federal employee’s 
home address to any labor organization except when the employee 
has authorized such disclosure or when such disclosure has been 
ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction. 
SEC. 718. None of the funds made available in this Act or 
any other Act may be used to provide any non-public information 
such as mailing or telephone lists to any person or any organization 
outside of the Federal Government without the approval of the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate. 
SEC. 719. No part of any appropriation contained in this or 
any other Act shall be used directly or indirectly, including by