amount for salaries and expenses shall remain available 
from January 3, 2013 until January 3, 2014. 
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, 
$573,939,282. 
COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES 
STANDING COMMITTEES, SPECIAL AND SELECT 
For salaries and expenses of standing committees, 
special and select, authorized by House resolutions, 
$125,964,870: Provided, That such amount shall remain 
available for such salaries and expenses until December 
31, 2014. 
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS 
For salaries and expenses of the Committee on Ap-
propriations, $26,665,785, 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, 2014.
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
For compensation and expenses of officers and em-
ployees, as authorized by law, $173,669,084, including: 
for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Clerk, includ-
ing not more than $23,000, of which not more than 
$20,000 is for the Family Room, for official representa-
tion and reception expenses, $22,370,252; for salaries and 
expenses of the Office of the Sergeant at Arms, including 
the position of Superintendent of Garages and the Office 
of Emergency Management, and including not more than 
$3,000 for official representation and reception expenses, 
$12,585,000, of which $5,463,251 shall remain available 
until expended; for salaries and expenses of the Office of 
the Chief Administrative Officer including not more than 
$3,000 for official representation and reception expenses, 
$116,782,000, of which $3,937,000 shall remain available 
until expended; for salaries and expenses of the Office of 
the Inspector General, $4,692,000; for salaries and ex-
penses of the Office of General Counsel, $1,415,000; for 
the Office of the Chaplain, $179,000; for salaries and ex-
penses 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 representa-
tion and reception expenses, $2,060,000; for salaries and 
expenses of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the
House, $3,258,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office 
of the Legislative Counsel of the House, $8,814,000; for 
salaries and expenses of the Office of Interparliamentary 
Affairs, $859,000; for other authorized employees, 
$484,832; and for salaries and expenses of the Historian, 
$170,000. 
ALLOWANCES AND EXPENSES 
For allowances and expenses as authorized by House 
resolution or law, $302,165,206, including: supplies, mate-
rials, administrative costs and Federal tort claims, 
$3,696,118; 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, 
$272,548,016; Business Continuity and Disaster Recov-
ery, $17,112,072, of which $5,000,000 shall remain avail-
able until expended; transition activities for new members 
and staff, $4,125,000; Wounded Warrior Program 
$2,175,000, to remain available until expended; Office of 
Congressional Ethics, $1,548,000; and miscellaneous 
items including purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair 
and operation of House motor vehicles, interparliamentary 
receptions, and gratuities to heirs of deceased employees 
of the House, $760,000.
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 Ex-
penses—Members’ Representational Allowances’’ shall be 
available only for fiscal year 2013. Any amount remaining 
after all payments are made under such allowances for fis-
cal year 2013 shall be deposited in the Treasury and used 
for deficit reduction (or, if there is no Federal budget def-
icit 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) Section 109(a) of the Legislative 
Branch Appropriations Act, 1998 (2 U.S.C. 95d(a)) is 
amended by striking the period at the end and inserting
the following: ‘‘, and for reimbursing the Secretary of 
Labor for any amounts paid with respect to unemployment 
compensation payments for former employees of the 
House.’’. 
(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to fiscal year 2013 and each succeeding 
fiscal year. 
SEC. 103. (a) Section 101(c)(2) of the Legislative 
Branch Appropriations Act, 1993 (2 U.S.C. 95b(c)(2)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘and ‘Allowances and Expenses’ ’’ 
and inserting the following: ‘‘ ‘Allowances and Expenses’, 
the heading for any joint committee under the heading 
‘Joint Items’ (to the extent that amounts appropriated for 
the joint committee are disbursed by the Chief Adminis-
trative Officer of the House of Representatives), and ‘Of-
fice of the Attending Physician’ ’’. 
(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to fiscal year 2013 and each succeeding 
fiscal year. 
OVERSIGHT OF OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SEC. 104. (a) OVERSIGHT.—The Office of the Inspec-
tor General of the House of Representatives shall provide 
the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives with a copy of each audit and investigative 
report the Office produces, and shall consult regularly
with such Committee with respect to the Office’s oper-
ations. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply with 
respect to fiscal year 2013 and each succeeding fiscal year. 
JOINT ITEMS 
For Joint Committees, as follows: 
JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Economic 
Committee, $4,203,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary 
of the Senate. 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON TAXATION 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on 
Taxation, $10,004,000, to be disbursed by the Chief Ad-
ministrative Officer of the House of Representatives. 
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 $2,175 per month to the Attending Physician; (2) an 
allowance of $1,300 per month to the Senior Medical Offi-
cer; (3) an allowance of $725 per month each to three 
medical officers while on duty in the Office of the Attend-
ing Physician; (4) an allowance of $725 per month to 2 
assistants and $580 per month each not to exceed 11 as-
sistants on the basis heretofore provided for such assist-
ants; and (5) $2,603,000 for reimbursement to the De-
partment of the Navy for expenses incurred for staff and 
equipment assigned to the Office of the Attending Physi-
cian, which shall be advanced and credited to the applica-
ble appropriation or appropriations from which such sala-
ries, allowances, and other expenses are payable and shall 
be available for all the purposes thereof, $3,467,000, to 
be disbursed by the Chief Administrative Officer of the 
House of Representatives. 
OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of Congres-
sional Accessibility Services, $1,363,000, to be disbursed 
by the Secretary of the Senate. 
CAPITOL POLICE 
SALARIES 
For salaries of employees of the Capitol Police, in-
cluding overtime, hazardous duty pay, and Government 
contributions for health, retirement, social security, pro-
fessional liability insurance, and other applicable employee 
benefits, $297,133,000, to be disbursed by the Chief of 
the Capitol Police or his designee.