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House, $6,721,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office 
of Interparliamentary Affairs, $687,000; and for other au-
thorized employees, $156,000. 
ALLOWANCES AND EXPENSES 
For allowances and expenses as authorized by House 
resolution or law, $205,050,000, including: supplies, mate-
rials, administrative costs and Federal tort claims, 
$4,350,000; official mail for committees, leadership of-
fices, and administrative offices of the House, $410,000; 
Government contributions for health, retirement, Social 
Security, 
and 
other 
applicable 
employee 
benefits, 
$199,600,000; and miscellaneous items including pur-
chase, exchange, maintenance, repair and operation of 
House motor vehicles, interparliamentary receptions, and 
gratuities to heirs of deceased employees of the House, 
$690,000. 
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. 2112), 
subject to the level specified in the budget of the Center, 
as submitted to the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives.
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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 2005. Any 
amount remaining after all payments are made under such 
allowances for fiscal year 2005 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. 
SEC. 102. NET
EXPENSES
OF
TELECOMMUNI-
CATIONS REVOLVING FUND. (a) There is hereby estab-
lished in the Treasury of the United States a revolving
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fund for the House of Representatives to be known as the 
Net Expenses of Telecommunications Revolving Fund 
(hereafter in this section referred to as the ‘‘Revolving 
Fund’’), consisting of funds deposited by the Chief Admin-
istrative Officer of the House of Representatives from 
amounts provided by legislative branch offices to purchase, 
lease, obtain, and maintain the data and voice tele-
communications services and equipment located in such 
offices. 
(b) Amounts in the Revolving Fund shall be used by 
the Chief Administrative Officer without fiscal year limita-
tion to purchase, lease, obtain, and maintain the data and 
voice telecommunications services and equipment of legis-
lative branch offices. 
(c) The Revolving Fund shall be treated as a category 
of allowances and expenses for purposes of section 101(a) 
of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1993 (2 
U.S.C. 95b(a)). 
(d) Section 306 of the Legislative Branch Appropria-
tions Act, 1989 (2 U.S.C. 117f) is amended— 
(1) by striking subsection (b) and redesignating 
subsection (c) as subsection (b); and 
(2) in subsection (b) (as so redesignated), by 
striking ‘‘subsections (a) and (b)’’ and inserting 
‘‘subsection (a)’’.
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(e) Section 102 of the Legislative Branch Appropria-
tions Act, 2003 (2 U.S.C. 112g) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(e) This section shall not apply with respect to any 
telecommunications equipment which is subject to cov-
erage under section 103 of the Legislative Branch Appro-
priations Act, 2005 (relating to the Net Expenses of Tele-
communications Revolving Fund).’’. 
(f) This section and the amendments made by this 
section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2005 and 
each succeeding fiscal year, except that for purposes of 
making deposits into the Revolving Fund under subsection 
(a), the Chief Administrative Officer may deposit amounts 
provided by legislative branch offices during fiscal year 
2004 or any succeeding fiscal year. 
SEC. 103. CONTRACT FOR EXERCISE FACILITY. (a) 
IN GENERAL.—The Chief Administrative Officer of the 
House of Representatives shall enter into a contract on 
a competitive basis with a private entity for the manage-
ment, operation, and maintenance of the exercise facility 
established for the use of employees of the House of Rep-
resentatives which is constructed with funds made avail-
able under this Act. 
(b) USE OF FEES TO SUPPORT CONTRACT.—Any 
amounts paid as fees for the use of the exercise facility