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cles purchased for demonstration under the provisions of the 
Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, and 
Demonstration Act of 1976: Provided further, That the lim-
its set forth in this section may be exceeded by the incre-
mental cost of clean alternative fuels vehicles acquired pur-
suant to Public Law 101–549 over the cost of comparable 
conventionally fueled vehicles. 
SEC. 804. Appropriations of the executive departments 
and independent establishments for the current fiscal year 
available for expenses of travel, or for the expenses of the 
activity concerned, are hereby made available for quarters 
allowances and cost-of-living allowances, in accordance 
with 5 U.S.C. 5922–5924. 
SEC. 805. Unless otherwise specified during the current 
fiscal year, no part of any appropriation contained in this 
or any other Act shall be used to pay the compensation of 
any officer or employee of the Government of the United 
States (including any agency the majority of the stock of 
which is owned by the Government of the United States) 
whose post of duty is in the continental United States un-
less such person: (1) is a citizen of the United States; (2) 
is a person in the service of the United States on the date 
of the enactment of this Act who, being eligible for citizen-
ship, has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen 
of the United States prior to such date and is actually re-
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siding in the United States; (3) is a person who owes alle-
giance to the United States; (4) is an alien from Cuba, Po-
land, South Vietnam, the countries of the former Soviet 
Union, or the Baltic countries lawfully admitted to the 
United States for permanent residence; (5) is a South Viet-
namese, Cambodian, or Laotian refugee paroled in the 
United States after January 1, 1975; or (6) is a national 
of the People’s Republic of China who qualifies for adjust-
ment of status pursuant to the Chinese Student Protection 
Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–404): Provided, That for the 
purpose of this section, an affidavit signed by any such per-
son shall be considered prima facie evidence that the re-
quirements of this section with respect to his or her status 
have been complied with: Provided further, That any person 
making a false affidavit shall be guilty of a felony, and, 
upon conviction, shall be fined no more than $4,000 or im-
prisoned for not more than 1 year, or both: Provided fur-
ther, That the above penal clause shall be in addition to, 
and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing 
law: Provided further, That any payment made to any offi-
cer or employee contrary to the provisions of this section 
shall be recoverable in action by the Federal Government. 
This section shall not apply to citizens of Ireland, Israel, 
or the Republic of the Philippines, or to nationals of those 
countries allied with the United States in a current defense
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effort, or to international broadcasters employed by the 
United States Information Agency, or to temporary em-
ployment of translators, or to temporary employment in the 
field service (not to exceed 60 days) as a result of emer-
gencies. 
SEC. 806. Appropriations available to any department 
or agency during the current fiscal year for necessary ex-
penses, including maintenance or operating expenses, shall 
also be available for payment to the General Services Ad-
ministration for charges for space and services and those 
expenses of renovation and alteration of buildings and fa-
cilities which constitute public improvements performed in 
accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (73 Stat. 
749), the Public Buildings Amendments of 1972 (87 Stat. 
216), or other applicable law. 
SEC. 807. 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 disposed of pursuant to a records schedule 
recovered through recycling or waste prevention programs. 
Such funds shall be available until expended for the fol-
lowing purposes: 
(1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention, 
and recycling programs as described in Executive 
Order No. 13101 (September 14, 1998), including any
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such programs adopted prior to the effective date of 
the Executive order. 
(2) Other Federal agency environmental manage-
ment programs, including, but not limited to, the de-
velopment 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 Fed-
eral agency. 
SEC. 808. Funds made available by this or any other 
Act for administrative expenses in the current fiscal year 
of the corporations 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 subsequently transferred to or paid from other funds, 
the limitations on administrative expenses shall be cor-
respondingly reduced. 
SEC. 809. No part of any appropriation for the current 
fiscal year contained in this or any other Act shall be paid
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to any person for the filling of any position for which he 
or she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not 
to approve the nomination of said person. 
SEC. 810. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this or any other Act shall be available for interagency fi-
nancing of boards (except Federal Executive Boards), com-
missions, councils, committees, 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. 811. Funds made available by this or any other 
Act to the Postal Service Fund (39 U.S.C. 2003) shall be 
available for employment of guards for all buildings and 
areas owned or occupied by the Postal Service or under the 
charge and control of the Postal Service. The Postal Service 
may give such guards, with respect to such property, any 
of the powers of special policemen provided under 40 U.S.C. 
1315. The Postmaster General, or his designee, may take 
any action that the Secretary of Homeland Security may 
take under such section with respect to that property. 
SEC. 812. 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 dis-
approved pursuant to a joint resolution duly adopted in 
accordance with the applicable law of the United States.
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SEC. 813. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, and except as otherwise provided in this section, no 
part of any of the funds appropriated for fiscal year 2007, 
by this or any other Act, may be used to pay any prevailing 
rate employee described in section 5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, 
United States Code— 
(1) during the period from the date of expiration 
of the limitation imposed by the comparable section 
for previous fiscal years until the normal effective 
date of the applicable wage survey adjustment that is 
to take effect in fiscal year 2007, in an amount that 
exceeds the rate payable for the applicable grade and 
step of the applicable wage schedule in accordance 
with such section; and 
(2) during the period consisting of the remainder 
of fiscal year 2007, in an amount that exceeds, as a 
result of a wage survey adjustment, the rate payable 
under paragraph (1) by more than the sum of— 
(A) the percentage adjustment taking effect 
in fiscal year 2007 under section 5303 of title 5, 
United States Code, in the rates of pay under the 
General Schedule; and 
(B) the difference between the overall aver-
age 
percentage 
of 
the 
locality-based 
com-
parability payments taking effect in fiscal year
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2007 under section 5304 of such title (whether by 
adjustment or otherwise), and the overall average 
percentage of such payments which was effective 
in the previous fiscal year under such section. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
prevailing rate employee described in subparagraph (B) or 
(C) of section 5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code, and 
no employee covered by section 5348 of such title, may be 
paid during the periods for which subsection (a) is in effect 
at a rate that exceeds the rates that would be payable under 
subsection (a) were subsection (a) applicable to such em-
ployee. 
(c) For the purposes of this section, the rates payable 
to an employee who is covered by this section and who is 
paid from a schedule not in existence on September 30, 
2006, shall be determined under regulations prescribed by 
the Office of Personnel Management. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates 
of premium pay for employees subject to this section may 
not be changed from the rates in effect on September 30, 
2006, except to the extent determined by the Office of Per-
sonnel Management to be consistent with the purpose of this 
section. 
(e) This section shall apply with respect to pay for 
service performed after September 30, 2006.
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(f) For the purpose of administering any provision of 
law (including any rule or regulation that provides pre-
mium pay, retirement, life insurance, or any other em-
ployee benefit) that requires any deduction or contribution, 
or that imposes any requirement or limitation on the basis 
of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary or basic 
pay payable after the application of this section shall be 
treated as the rate of salary or basic pay. 
(g) Nothing in this section shall be considered to per-
mit or require the payment to any employee covered by this 
section at a rate in excess of the rate that would be payable 
were this section not in effect. 
(h) The Office of Personnel Management may provide 
for exceptions to the limitations imposed by this section if 
the Office determines that such exceptions are necessary to 
ensure the recruitment or retention of qualified employees. 
SEC. 814. During the period in which the head of any 
department or agency, or any other officer or civilian em-
ployee of the 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 department head, agency head, officer, or em-
ployee, or to purchase furniture or make improvements for 
any such office, unless advance notice of such furnishing 
or redecoration is expressly approved by the Committees on
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Appropriations. 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. 815. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, 
United States Code, or section 809 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 na-
tional security and emergency preparedness telecommuni-
cations initiatives which benefit multiple Federal depart-
ments, agencies, or entities, as provided by Executive Order 
No. 12472 (April 3, 1984). 
SEC. 816. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this 
or any other Act may be obligated or expended by any Fed-
eral 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 pursuant to section 3302 of 
title 5, United States Code, without a certification to the 
Office of Personnel Management from the head of the Fed-
eral department, agency, or other instrumentality employ-
ing 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.
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(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to 
Federal employees or members of the armed services detailed 
to or from— 
(1) the Central Intelligence Agency; 
(2) the National Security Agency; 
(3) the Defense Intelligence Agency; 
(4) the offices within the Department of Defense 
for the collection of specialized national foreign intel-
ligence through reconnaissance programs; 
(5) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of 
the Department of State; 
(6) any agency, office, or unit of the Army, 
Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, the Department 
of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration of 
the Department of Justice, the Department of Trans-
portation, the Department of the Treasury, and the 
Department of Energy performing intelligence func-
tions; and 
(7) the Director of National Intelligence or the 
Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 
SEC. 817. No department, agency, or instrumentality 
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under 
this or any other Act for the current fiscal year shall obli-
gate or expend any such funds, unless such department,
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agency, or instrumentality has in place, and will continue 
to administer in good faith, a written policy designed to 
ensure that all of its workplaces are free from discrimina-
tion and sexual harassment and that all of its workplaces 
are not in violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 
1964 (Public Law 88–352, 78 Stat. 241), as amended, the 
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (Public 
Law 90–202, 81 Stat. 602), and the Rehabilitation Act of 
1973 (Public Law 93–112, 87 Stat. 355). 
SEC. 818. 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 Gov-
ernment, who— 
(1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threat-
ens to prohibit or prevent, any other officer or em-
ployee of the Federal Government from having any 
direct oral or written communication or contact with 
any Member, committee, or subcommittee of the Con-
gress in connection with any matter pertaining to the 
employment of such other officer or employee or per-
taining to the department or agency of such other of-
ficer 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 re-
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quest or inquiry of such Member, committee, or sub-
committee; or 
(2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, 
demotes, reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or 
performance of efficiency rating, denies promotion to, 
relocates, reassigns, transfers, disciplines, or discrimi-
nates 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 Govern-
ment, 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 de-
scribed in paragraph (1). 
SEC. 819. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
or any other Act may be obligated or expended for any em-
ployee training that— 
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, 
skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the perform-
ance of official duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high levels 
of emotional response or psychological stress in some 
participants;