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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 
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 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 telecommuni-
cations initiatives which benefit multiple Federal departments, 
agencies, or entities, as provided by Executive Order No. 13618 
(July 6, 2012). 
SEC. 712. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this or any 
other Act may be obligated or expended by any Federal department,
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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 
(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—
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(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. 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. 716. 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. 717. 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, telephone or electronic mailing 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. 718. No part of any appropriation contained in this or 
any other Act shall be used directly or indirectly, including by 
private contractor, for publicity or propaganda purposes within 
the United States not heretofore authorized by the Congress. 
SEC. 719. (a) In this section, the term ‘‘agency’’— 
(1) means an Executive agency, as defined under 5 U.S.C. 
105; and 
(2) includes a military department, as defined under section 
102 of such title, the Postal Service, and the Postal Regulatory 
Commission. 
(b) Unless authorized in accordance with law or regulations 
to use such time for other purposes, an employee of an agency 
shall use official time in an honest effort to perform official duties. 
An employee not under a leave system, including a Presidential 
appointee exempted under 5 U.S.C. 6301(2), has an obligation to 
expend an honest effort and a reasonable proportion of such 
employee’s time in the performance of official duties. 
SEC. 720. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and section 708 
of this Act, funds made available for the current fiscal year by 
this or any other Act to any department or agency, which is a 
member of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
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(FASAB), shall be available to finance an appropriate share of 
FASAB administrative costs. 
SEC. 721. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and section 708 
of this Act, the head of each Executive department and agency 
is hereby authorized to transfer to or reimburse ‘‘General Services 
Administration, Government-wide Policy’’ with the approval of the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, funds made 
available for the current fiscal year by this or any other Act, 
including rebates from charge card and other contracts: Provided, 
That these funds shall be administered by the Administrator of 
General Services to support Government-wide and other multi- 
agency financial, information technology, procurement, and other 
management innovations, initiatives, and activities, as approved 
by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in con-
sultation with the appropriate interagency and multi-agency groups 
designated by the Director (including the President’s Management 
Council for overall management improvement initiatives, the Chief 
Financial Officers Council for financial management initiatives, 
the Chief Information Officers Council for information technology 
initiatives, the Chief Human Capital Officers Council for human 
capital initiatives, the Chief Acquisition Officers Council for procure-
ment initiatives, and the Performance Improvement Council for 
performance improvement initiatives): Provided further, That the 
total funds transferred or reimbursed shall not exceed $17,000,000 
for Government-Wide innovations, initiatives, and activities: Pro-
vided further, That the funds transferred to or for reimbursement 
of ‘‘General Services Administration, Government-wide Policy’’ 
during fiscal year 2014 shall remain available for obligation through 
September 30, 2015: Provided further, That such transfers or 
reimbursements may only be made after 15 days following notifica-
tion of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate by the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget. 
SEC. 722. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a woman 
may breastfeed her child at any location in a Federal building 
or on Federal property, if the woman and her child are otherwise 
authorized to be present at the location. 
SEC. 723. Notwithstanding 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 specific projects, workshops, studies, and similar efforts to carry 
out the purposes of the National Science and Technology Council 
(authorized by Executive Order No. 12881), which benefit multiple 
Federal departments, agencies, or entities: Provided, That the Office 
of Management and Budget shall provide a report describing the 
budget of and resources connected with the National Science and 
Technology Council to the Committees on Appropriations, the House 
Committee on Science and Technology, and the Senate Committee 
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 90 days after enactment 
of this Act. 
SEC. 724. Any request for proposals, solicitation, grant applica-
tion, form, notification, press release, or other publications involving 
the distribution of Federal funds shall indicate the agency providing 
the funds, the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number, 
as applicable, and the amount provided: Provided, That this provi-
sion shall apply to direct payments, formula funds, and grants 
received by a State receiving Federal funds.