An Act making appropriations for the legislative branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and for other purposes
PL 89-90 (H.R.8775), enacted 07/27/1965

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Public Law 89-90 
A N A C T 
July 27, 19 65 
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending —L:—i^JllL-
June 30, 1966, and for other purposes. 
Legislative 
Branch Appropri-
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assenibled^ That the following 
_ 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- luon'^ActT igee. 
wise appropriated, for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year end-
ing June 30, 1966, and for other purposes, namely: 
SENATE 
C03FPEN8ATI0N OF THE VICE PRESIDENT AND SENATORS, MILEAGE OF THE 
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND SENATORS, AND EXPENSE ALLOW-
ANCES OF THE VICE PRESIDENT AND LEADERS OF THE SENATE 
COMPENSATION OF THE VICE PRESIDENT AND SENATORS 
For compensation of the Vice President and Senators of the United 
States, $3^285,985. 
MILEAGE OF PRESIDENT OF T H E SENATE AND OF SENATORS 
For mileage of the President of the Senate and of Senators, $58,370. 
EXPENSE ALLOWANCES OF T H E VICE PRESIDENT, AND MAJORITY AND 
MINORITY LEADERS 
For expense allowance of the Vice President, $10,000; Majority 
Leader of the Senate, $2,000; and Minority Leader of the Senate, 
$2,000; in all, $14,000. 
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
For compensation of officers, employees, clerks to Senators, and 
others as authorized by law, including agency contributions and 
longevity compensation as authorized, which shall be paid from this 
appropriation without regard to the below limitations, as follows: 
OFFICE OF T H E 
VICE 
PRESIDENT 
For clerical assistance to the Vice President, at rates of compen-
sation to be fixed by him in basic multiples of $5 per month, $155,440. 
CHAPLAIN 
Chaplain of the Senate, $15,000. 
OFFICE OF T H E 
SECRETARY 
For office of the Secretary, $1,323,000, including $145,000 required 
for the pui'poses specified and authorized by section 74b of title 2, 
United States Code: Provided, That effective July 1, 1965, the Secre- 
so stat. 339. 
tary may employ one chief reporter of debates at $24,024.40 gross per 
annum, seven reporters of debates at $8,880 basic per annum each, 
one assistant reporter of debates at $6,120 basic per annum, two 
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clerks at $4,200 basic per annum each, and six expert transcribers 
payment" orem^'^' '^^ $^,900 basic per annuHi each: Provided further^ That the Secretary 
gency employees. Is hereafter authorized to obtain, by contract or otherwise, emergency 
reporters and transcribers as may be necessary, payments therefor 
to be made from the contingent fund ;of the Senate, and that Senate 
Resolution 196, agreed to August 21,1961, and Senate Resolution 170, 
agreed to July 15,1963, are hereby repealed: Provided further, That 
effective July 1, 1965, the basic compensation of the assistant to the 
Majority and the assistant to the Minority may be fixed by the Major-
ity and- Minority Leaders, respectively, at not to exceed $8,160 per 
annum each. 
COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES 
For professional and clerical assistance to standing connnittees and 
the Select Committee on Small Business, $3,236,145. 
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES 
For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Majority, at rates of 
compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $95,980. 
For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Minority, at rates 
of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $95,980. 
ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLERICAL ASSISTANTS TO SENATORS 
For administrative and clerical assistants and messenger service for 
Senators, $15,653,785. 
OFFICE o r SER(}EANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER 
For office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $3,051,230: Pro-
vided., That effective July 1, 1965, the basic per annum compensation 
of the foreman of skilled laborers shall be $2,340 in lieu of $2,100; the 
basic per annum compensation of two skilled laborers shall be $2,100 
each in lieu of $1,920 each; and the Sergeant at Arms may employ six 
additional laborers at $1,680 basic per annum each. 
OFFICES OF THE SECRETARIES* FOR THE MAJORITY AND THE MINORITY 
For the offices of the Secretary for the Majority and-the Secretary 
for the Minority, $160,885: Provided, T\^^t effective July 1,1965, the 
respective Secretaries may fix the basic compensation of the assistant 
secretary for the Majority and the assistant secretary for the Minority 
at not to exceed $8,820 per annum each. 
OFFICES OF THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY WHIPS 
For four clerical assistants, two for the Majority Whip and two for 
the Minority Whip, at rates of compensation to be fixed in basic 
multiples of $60 per annum by the respective Wliips, $17,815 each; 
in all, $35,630. 
OFFICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL OF THE SENATE 
For salaries and ext)enses of the Office of the Legislative Counsel 
of the Senate, $308,000. 
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SENATE PROCEDURE 
For compiling, preparing, and editing "Senate Procedure", 1964 
edition, $4,000, of which amomit $2,000 shall be paid to Charles L. 
Watkins, Parliamentarian Emeritus of the Senate, and $2,000 shall 
be paid to Floyd M. Riddick, Parliamentarian of the Senate. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE 
SENATE POLICY COMMM^J^ES 
For salaries and expenses of the Majority Policy Committee and the 
Minority Policy Committee, $197,525 for each such committee; in all, 
$895,050. 
AUTOMOBILES AND MAINTENANCE 
For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of 
four automobiles, one for the Vice President, one for the President 
Pro Tempore, one for the Majority Leader, and one for the Minority 
l>eader, $42,540. 
FI'RNITURE 
For service and materials in cleaning and repairing furniture, and 
for the purchase of furniture, $31,190: Provided. That the furnitui^e 
|)urchased is not available from other agencies of the GoAernment. 
INQUIRIES AND INVESTIGATIONS 
For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate 
or conducted pursuant to section 134(a) of Public Law 601, Seventy-
ninth Congress, including $392,000 for the Committee on Appropria- 
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tions, to be available also for the purposes mentioned in Senate Reso-
hition Numbered 193, agreed to October 14, 1943, $4,777,390. 
FOIiDING DOCUMEXre 
For the employment of personnel for folding speeches and pam-
phlets at a gross rate of not exceeding $2.17 per hour per person, 
$39,300. 
MA IL TRA NSPORTA'lT( )N 
For maintaining, exchanging, and equii)ping .motor vehicles for 
carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the Secretai'y 
and Sergeant at Arms, $16,560. 
MLSCELLANKOUS ITEMS 
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $3,222,755 including 
$246,000, for payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance 
with section 4 of Public Law 87-82, approved July 6, 1961. 
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POSTAGE STAMPS 
For postage stamps for the offices of the Secretaries for the Majority 
and Minority, $140; and for air-mail and special delivery stamps 
for office of the Seci'etary, $160; office of the Sergeant at Amis, $125; 
Senators and the Pi-esident of the Senate, as authorized by law, 
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$90,400, and the maximum allowance per capita of $610 is increased 
to $800 for the fiscal year 1966 and thereafter: Provided^ That Sena-
tors from States partially or wholly west of the Mississippi River 
shall be allowed an additional $200 each fiscal year; in all, $90,825. 
STATIONERY (REVOLVING FUND) 
For stationei'y for Senatoi*s and the President of the Senate, 
$242,400; and for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, 
$13,200; in all, $255,600, to remain available until expended. 
Infra. 
Long-distance 
telephone calls. 
77 Stat. 863. 
68 Stat. 400; 
72 Stat. 442. 
COMMrNICATTON 8 
For an amount for communications which may be expended inter-
changeably for payment, in accordance with such limitations and 
restrictions as may be prescribed by the Committee on Rules and 
Administration, of charges on official telegrams and long-distance 
telephone calls made by or on behalf of Senators or the President of 
the Senate, such telephone calls to be in addition to those authorized by 
the provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1947 
(60 Stat. 392; 2 U.S.C. 46c, 46d, 46e), as amended, and the First 
Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1949 (63 Stat. 77: 2 T\S.O. 46d-l), 
$15,150. 
A D M I N I S T R A T I V E P R O V I S K ^ N S 
Effective July 1, 1965, the paragraph relating to official long-dis-
tance telephone calls to and from "Washington, T)istrict of Columbia, 
under the heading "Contingent Expenses of the Senate" in Public 
Law 479, Seventy-ninth Congress, as amended (2 U.S.C. 46c), is 
amended to read as follows: 
"There shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate, in 
accordance with rules and regulations prescril)ed by the Committee 
on Rules and Administration of the Senate, toll charges on not to 
exceed twenty-four hundred strictly official long-distance telephone 
calls to and from Washington, District of (\>lumbia, aggregating not 
more than twelve thousand minutes each fiscal year for each Senator 
and the Vice Pi'esident of the Ignited States: Frocided^ That not more 
than twelve hundred calls aggregating not more than six thousand 
minutes made in the fii'st six months of each fiscal year shall be paid 
for under this sentence. The toll charges on an additional twelve 
Imndred such calls aggregating not more than six thousand minutes 
each fiscal year for each Senator from any State having a popula-
tion of ten million or more inhabitants shall also be paid from the 
contingent fund of the Senate: Provided^ That not more than six 
hundred calls aggregating not moi*e than three thousand minutes 
made in the first six months of each 
fisc^al 
year shall be paid for under 
this sentence." 
Effective July 1, 1965, the paragraph relating to payment of toll 
charges on official long-distance telephone calls, originating and termi-
nating outside of Washington, District of Columbia, under the head-
ing "Contingent Expenses of the Senate" in Public Law 479, Seventy-
ninth Congress, as amended (2 LT.S.C. 46d), is amended by striking 
out "$1,800" where it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof 
"$2,200". 
Any Senator niay have the Sergeant at Arms compute his total max-
imum long-distance telephone allowance. 
The( minutes and calls 
allowance shall be computed on a formula at the maximimi rate with 
all calls considered as being person-to-person from Washington, Dis-
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trict of Columbia, and terminating within the Senator's State. Any 
Senator or group of Senators may then request the Sergeant at Arms 
to contract for flat-rate long-distance telephone service such as wide 
area telephone service. 
All such contract costs shall be charged 
against their respective telephone allowances, and in no event shall 
the total cost of any contract service exceed the allowance of the 
Senator, or the group of Senators sharing any such service; any 
excess costs to be hilled to the Senator. No change from the original 
form of the allowances or from any contract service shall become 
effective except upon the first of a month. 
The third paragraph under the heading "Administrative Provi- 
travel. 
sions" in the appropriation for the Sena,te in the Legislative Branch 
Appropriation 'Act, 1959, as amended (2 U.S.C. 43b), is amended by 73^813^401!^' 
striking out "two" where it first appears therein and inserting in lieu 
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Effective July 1, 1965, the second paragraph under the heading „e^"s?^^ "^^ 
"Administrative Provisions" contained in the Legislative Branch 
Appropriation Act, 1962 (Public Law 87-130, approved August 10, 
1961; 2 U.S.C. 127) is amended by inserting at the end thereof the 
following: "Two additional mileage payments each fiscal year may 
be made, under the foregoing, to employees in the offices of Senators 
from States having a population of ten million or more inhabitants." 
Effective July 1, 1965, the third paragraph under the heading 
°"^=^ e^cpenses. 
"Administrative Provisions" contained in the Legislative Branch 
Appropriation Act, 1957 (Public Law 624, Eighty-fourth Congress; 
2 U.S.C. 53), is amended by striking out "$150^' where it appears 
^o stat. 359. 
therein and inserting in lieu thereof "$300". 
The le^slative subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations is 
hereby directed to study the manner in which stationery allowances 
are utilized, including the commutation thereof, and to make a report 
on its findings and recommendations to the Standing Committee on 
Appropriations no later than February 1, 1966. 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SALARIES, MILEAGE FOR THE MEMBERS, AND EXPENSE ALLOWANCE 
or 
THE SPEAKER 
COMPENSATION or 
MEMBERS 
For compensation of Members (wherever used herein the term 
"Member", shall include Members of the House of Representatives 
and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico), $14,138,975. 
MILEAGE OF MEMBERS AND EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF THE SPEAKER 
For mileage of Members and expense allowance of the Speaker, as 
authorized by law, $200,000. 
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
For compensation of officers and employees, as authorized by law, 
as follows: 
OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER 
For the Office of the Speaker, $116,700. 
stationery allows 
ices, report. 
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OFFICE OF THE 
PARIJAMENTARIAN 
For the Office of the Parliamentarian, $101,875, including the Par-
liamentarian and $2,000 for preparing the Digest of the Rnles, as 
authorized by law. 
COMPILATION OF PRECEDENTS OF HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES 
For compiling the precedents of the House of Representatives as 
hereinafter authorized, $10,000. Lewis Deschler is authorized (dur-
ing the current and succeeding fiscal years until the work is completed) 
to compile and prepare for printing the parliamentary preced!ents of 
the House of Representatives, together with such other materials as 
may be useful in connection therewith, and an index digest of such 
precedents and other materials. As so compiled and prepared, such 
precedents and other materials and index digest shall be printed on 
such size pages and in such type and format as Lewis Deschler may 
determine, and in such numbers and for such distribution as may 
hereafter be provided by law. For the purpose of carrying out such 
compilation and preparation, Lewis Deschler may (1) subject to the 
approval of the Speaker, appoint (as employees of the House of 
Representatives) and fix the compensation (at a per annum rate) 
of clerical and other personnel, and (2) utilize the services of personnel 
of the Library of Congress and the Government Printing Office. 
OFFICE OF THE CHAPLAIX 
For the Office of tbe Chaplain, $15,000. 
OFFICE OF THE CLERK 
For the Office of the Clerk, including $140,750 foi- ihe House Record-
ing Studio, $1,552,000. 
OFFJCE OF THE .SERGEANT AT AKMS 
For the Office of the Sergeant at Arms, including not to exceed 
twenty police privates on the Capitol Police Board additional to the 
number otherwise authorized, $1,044,500. 
OFFICE OF THE 1KH>RKEEPKR 
For the Office of Doorkeeper, $1,620,000. 
OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER 
For the Office of the Postmaster, hicluding $10,525 for employment 
of substitute messengers and extra services of regular employees when 
required at the basic salary rate of not to exceed $2,100 per annum 
each, $512,000. 
COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES 
For committee employees, including the Committee on Appropria-
tions, $3,800,000. 
SPECIAL AND MINORITY EMPLOYEES 
For six minority employees, $112,230. 
For the office of the majority floor leader, inclu<ling $3,000 for offi-
cial expenses of the majority leader, $86,600. 
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For the office of the minority floor leader, hicludiiig $3,000 for 
official expenses of the minority leader, $71,700. 
For the office of the majority whip, including $11,300 ba«ic Imnp-
sum clerical assistance, $57,900. 
For the office of the minority whip, including $11,300 basic lump-
sum clerical assistance, $57,900. 
For two printing clerks, one for the majority caucus room and one 
for the minority caucus room, to be appointed by the majority and 
minority leaders, respectively, $15,900. 
For a technical assistant in the office of the attending physician, to 
be appointed by the attending physician, subject to the approval of 
(he Speaker, $14,135. 
OFFICIAL REPORTERS OF DEBATES 
For official leporters of debates, $254,770. 
OFFICIAL REPORTERS TO COMMITTEES 
For official reporters to committees, $256,950. 
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIOXS 
For salaries and expenses, studies and examinations of executive 
agencies, by the Committee on Appropriations, and temporary per-
sonal services for such committee, to be expended in accordance with 
section 202(b) of the Legislative Keorganization Act, 1946, and to 
2°us*c*72^i^* 
be available for reimbursement to agencies for ser\dces performed, 
$700,000. 
OFFICE OF THE LEGISLATI\TE COUXSEL 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Legislative Counsel 
of Uie House, $295,000. 
MEMBERS* CLERK HIRE 
For clerk liire, ne(.'essarily employed by each Member in the dis-
charge of liis official and representative duties, $28,500,0<K). 
CoxTixdEXT EXPENSES OF T H E H O U S E 
FURNITURE 
For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, including 
tools and juachinery for furniture repair shops, and for the pur-
chase of 2)acking boxes, $140,000. 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries unless specifically 
ordered by the House of Representatives, including the sum of $226,000 
for payment to the Architect of the Capitol m accordance with section 
208 of the Act approved October 9, 1940 (Public Law 812); the 
^4 sm. w^se. 
exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of the Clerk's motor 
vehicles; the exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of the pub-
lications and distribution service motortruck; the exchange, main-
tenance, operation, and repair of the post office motor vehicles for 
carrying the mails; not to exceed $5,000 for the purposes authorized 
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by section 1 of House Resolution 348, approved June 29, 1961; the 
sum of $600 for hire of automobile for the Sergeant at Arms; mate-
rials for folding; and for stationery for the use of committees, depart-
ments, and officers of the House; $4,123,000. 
REPORTING HEARINGS 
For stenographic reports of hearings of committees other than 
special and select committees, $223,000, of which such amount as may 
be necessary may be transferred to the appropriation under this head-
ing for the fiscal year 1965. 
SPECIAL AND SELECT COMMITTEES 
For salaries and expenses of special and select committees authorized 
by the House, $4,500,000, of which such amount as may be necessary 
may be transferred to the appropriation under this heading for the 
fiscal year il965. 
OFFICE OF THE COORDINATOR OF INFORMATION 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Coordinator of In-
formation, $136,000. 
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE 
For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, 
$2,400,000. 
STATIONERY (REVOLVING FUND) 
For a stationery allowance for each Member for the second session 
of the Eighty-ninth Congress, as authorized by law, $1,046,400, to 
remain available until expended. 
ATTENDING P H Y S I C I A N ' S OFFICE 
For medical supplies, equipment, and contingent expenses of the 
emergency room and for the attending physician and his assistants, 
including an allowance of $1,500 to be paid to the attending physician 
in equal monthly installments as authorized by the Act approved 
June 27, 1940 (54 Stat. 629), and including an allowance of one 
hundred dollars per month each to five assistants as provided by the 
House resolutions adopted July 1, 1930, January 20, 1932, November 
18, 1940, and May 21, 1959, and Public Law 242, Eighty-fourth 
Congress, $20,045. 
POSTAGE STAMP ALLOWANCES 
Postage stamp allowances for the second session of the Eighty-ninth 
Congress, as follows: Postmaster, $400; Clerk, $800; Sergeant at 
Arms, $600; Doorkeeper, $500; airmail and special-delivery postage 
stamps for each Member, the Speaker, the majority and minority 
leaders, the majority and minority whips, and to each standing com-
mittee, as authorized by law; $228,550. 
RE^rtSION OF LAWS 
For preparation and editing of the laws as authorized bv 1 IJ.S.C. 
61 Stat. 637. 
202, 203, 213, $27,000, to be expended under the direction of the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary. 
69 Stat. 512. 
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SPEAKER'S AUTOMOBILE 
For purchase, exchange, hire, driving, maintenance, repair, and 
operation of an automooile for the Speaker, $12,200. 
MAJORITY LEADER'S AUTOMOBILE 
For purchase, exchange, hire, driving, maintenance, repair, and 
operation of an automobile for the majority leader of the House, 
$12,200. 
MINORITY LEADER'S AUTOMOBILE 
For purchase, exchange, hire, driving, maintenance, repair, and 
operation of an automobile for the minority leader of the House, 
$12,200. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
Salaries or wages paid out of the items herein for the House of 
Representatives shall hereafter be computed at basic rates, plus 
increased and additional compensation, as authorized and provided 
by law. 
J O I N T ITEMS 
For joint committees, as follows: 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON REDUCTION OF NONESSENTIAL FEDERAL 
EXPENDITURES 
For an amount to enable the Joint Committee on Reduction of 
Nonessential Federal Expenditures to carry out the duties imposed 
upon it by section 601 of the Revenue Act of 1941 (55 Stat. 726), to 
remain available during the existence of the Committee, $35,165, to 
be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES or 
THE SENATE 
JOINT BOONOMIC COMMITTEE 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Economic Committee, 
$360,000. 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 
$347,000. 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Printing, 
$151,000. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE HOUSE 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON INTERNAL REVENUE TAXATION 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Internal Reve-
nue Taxation, $390,000. 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY POLICY 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Immigration 
and Nationality Policy, $24,100. 
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.JOINT COMMI'rrEE ON DEFENSE 
l'K(iDVCriON 
For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Defense Pro-
duction as authorized by the Defense Production Act of 1950, as 
amended, $80,000. 
For other joint items, as follows: 
64 Stat. 798. 
50 u s e app. 
2061. 
CAPrrOL POLICE 
GENERAL EXPENSES 
For purchasing and supplying unifonns; the purchase, mainte-
nance, and repair of police motor vehicles, including two-way police 
radio equipment; contingent expenses, including $26 per month for 
extra services performed for the Capitol Police Board by such member 
of the staff of the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate or the House, as 
may be designated by the Chairman of the Board; $50,000. 
CAPITOL POLICE BOARD 
To enable the Capitol Police Board to provide additional protection 
for the Capitol Buildings and Grounds, including the Senate and 
House Office Buildings and the Capitol Power Plant, $809,000. Such 
sum shall be expended only for payment of salaries and otheir ex-
penses of personnel detailed from the Metropolitan Police of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia 
are authorized and directed to make such details upon the request of 
sonnlr."'"^^*'" 
^^® Board. 
Personnel so detailed shall, during the period of such 
detail, serve under the direction and instnictions of the Board and 
are authorized to exercise the same authority as members of such 
Metropolitan Police and members of the Capitol Police and to per-
tola^.^cf'^te?!^"'^ 
form such other duties as may be assigned by the Board. Reimburse-
ment, 
ment for salaries and other expenses of such detail persoimel shall be 
made to the government of the District of Columbia, and any 
sums so reimbursed shall be credited to the appropriation or 
appropriations from which such salaries and expenses are pay-
able and shall be available for all the purposes thereof: Pro-
vided^ That any person detailed under the authority of this par-
agraph or under similar authority in the Legislative 
Branch 
55 Stat. 456. 
Appropriation Act, 1942, and the Second Deficiency Appropria-
54 Stat. 629. 
^JQ^ Act, 1940, froui the Metropolitan Police of the District of 
Columbia shall be deemed a member of such Metropolitan Police 
during the period or periods of any such detail for all purposes of 
rank, pay, allowances, privileges, and benefits to the same extent as 
though such detail had not been made, and at the termination thereof 
any such person who was a member of such police on July 1, 1940, 
shall have a status with i*espect to rank, pay, allowances, privileges, 
and benefits which is not less than the status of such person in such 
police at the end of such detail: Provided further^ That the Commis-
sionei-s of the District of Columbia are directed (1) to pay the detec-
tive captain detailed under the authority of this paragraph his 
salary as a detective captain plus $1,625 and such increases in basic 
compensation as may be subsequently provided by law so lon^ as this 
position is held by the present incumbent, (2) to pay the uniformed 
lieutenant detailed under the authority of this paragraph and serving 
as acting captain a salary of the rank of captani plus $1,625 and such 
increases in basic compensation as may be subsequently provided by 
law so long as this position is held by the present incumi)eut, (3) to 
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pay the acting deputy chief of police detailed under the authority 
of this paragraph the salary of the rank of deputy chief of police 
plus $1,625 and such increases in basic compensation as may be sub-
sequently provided by law so long as this position is held by the 
present incumbent, (4) to pay the detective lieutenant detailed imder 
the authority of this paragraph and serving as acting detective cap-
tain the salary of the rank of detective captain and such increases in 
basic compensation as may be subsequently provided by law, and (5) 
to pay the detective permanently detailed under the authority of this 
paragraph and serving as acting detective sergeant the salary of the 
rank of detective sergeant and such increases in basic compensation 
as may be subsequently provided by law. 
No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be paid as 
compensation to any person appointed after June 30, 1935, as an 
officer or member of the Capitol Police who does not meet the stand-
ards to be prescribed for such appointees by the Capitol Police Board: 
Provided^ That the Capitol Police Board is hereby authorized to 
detail police from the House Office, Senate Office, and Capitol build-
ings for police duty on the Capitol Grounds and on the Library of 
Congress Grounds. 
EDUCATION OF PAGES 
For education of congressional pages and pages of the Supreme 
Court, pursuant to section 243 of the Legislative Keorganization Act, 
1946, $85,712, which amount shall be advanced and credited to the 
aVsc^asT* 
applicable appropriation of the District of Columbia, and the Board 
of Education of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized to 
employ such personnel for the education of pages as may be required 
and to pay compensation for such services in accordance yvith such 
rates of compensation as the Board of Education may prescribe. 
OFFICIAL MAIL COSTS 
For expenses necessary under section 2 of Public Law 286, Eighty-
third Congress, $6,512,000, to be available immediately. 
The foregoing amounts under "other joint items" shall be disbursed 
^gtat^** ^^''' 
by the Clerk of the House. 
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and note. 
STATEMENTS OF APPROPRIATIONS 
For the preparation, under the direction of the Committees on 
Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the 
statements for the first session of the Eighty-ninth Congress, showing 
appropriations made, indefinite appropriations, and contracts author-
ized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropria-
tion bills as required by law, $13,000, to be paid to the persons desig-
nated by the chairmen of such committees to supervise the work. 
ARCHITECT OF T H E CAPITOL 
OFFICE OF THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL 
SALARIES 
For the Architect of the Capitol, Assistant Architect of the Capitol, 
and Second Assistant Architect of the Capitol and other personal 
services at rates of pay provided by law, $587,600. 
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[79 STAT. 
Appropriations under the control of the Architect of the Capitol 
shall be available for expenses of travel on official business not to 
exceed in the aggregate under all funds the sum of $20,000. 
Hereafter the purchase of supplies and equipment and the procure-
ment of services for all branches under the Architect of the Capitol 
may be made in the open market without compliance with section 3709 
4x use 5. 
Qf ^jjQ Kevised Statutes of the United States, as amended, in the man-
ner common among businessmen, when the aggregate amount of the 
purchase or the service does not exceed $2,500 in any instance. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES 
To enable the Architect of the Capitol to make surveys and studies 
and to meet unforeseen expenses in connection with activities under 
his care, $50,000. 
CAPITOL BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
CAPITOL B U I L D I N G S 
For necessary expenditures for the Capitol Building and electrical 
substations of the Senate and House Office Buildings, under the juris-
diction of the Architect of the Capitol, including improvements, main-
tenance, repair, equipment, supplies, material, fuel, oil, waste, and 
appurtenances; furnishings and office equipment; special and pro-
tective clothing for workmen; uniforms or allowances therefor as 
authorized by the Act of September 1, 1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. 
68 Stat. 1114. 
2131); personal and other services; cleaning and repairing works of 
art, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as 
amended; purchase or exchange, maintenance and operation of a pas-
senger motor vehicle; purchase of necessary reference books and peri-
odicals; for expenses of attendance, when specifically authorized by 
the Architect of the Capitol, at meetings or conventions in connection 
with subjects related to work under the Architect of the Capitol, 
$1,640,000. 
CAPITOL GROUNDS 
For care and improvement of grounds surrounding the Capitol, the 
Senate and House Office Buildings, and the Capitol Power Plant; 
personal and other services; care of trees; planting; fertilizers; 
repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways; waterproof wearing 
apparel; maintenance of signal lights; and for snow removal by hire 
of men and equipment or under contract without regard to section 3709 
of the Revised Statutes, as amended; $638,000. 
SENATE OFFICE BUILDINGS 
For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, including furni-
ture, furnishings, and equipment, and for labor and material incident 
thereto, and repairs thereof; for purchase of waterproof wearing 
apparel, and for personal and other services; including eight attend-
ants at $1,800 each; for the care and operation of the Senate Office 
Buildings; including the subway and subway transportation systems 
connecting the Senate Office Buildings with the Capitol; uniforms or 
allowances therefor as authorized by the Act of September 1,1954, as 
amended (5 U.S.C. 2131); to be expended under the control and supers 
vision of the Architect of the Capitol; in all, $2,458,700. 
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SENATE GARAGE 
For maintenance, repairs, alterations, personal nnd other services, 
and all other necessary expenses, $53,800. 
HOUSE OFFICE BUILDINGS 
For maintenance, including equipment; waterproof 
wearing 
apparel; uniforms or allowances therefor as authorized by the Act 
of September 1, 1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. 2131); prevention and 
^
^ ^'^'' i"4. 
eradication of insect and other pests without regard to section 3709 of 
the Revised Statutes, as amended; miscellaneous items; and for all 
41 uses. 
necessary services; $3,807,000. 
ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY, CONSTRUCTION, AND EQl'irMENT, ADDITIONAL 
HOUSE OFFICE 
BUILDING 
To enable the Architect of the Capitol, under tlie direction of 
the House Office Building Commission, to contiinie to provide for 
the acquisition of property, construction, furnishing and equipment 
of an additional fireproof office building for the use of the House of 
Representatives, and other changes and improvements, authorized 
by the Additional House Office Building Act of 1955 (69 Stat. 41,42), 
as amended, $12,500,000. 
40 u s e 175 
note. 
CAPITOL POW^ER PLANT 
For lighting, heating, and i>o\ver (including the purchase of elec-
trical energy) for tlie Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, 
Supreme Court Building, Congressional Library Buildings, and the 
grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, Senate garage, and for 
air-conditioning i-efrigeration not supplied from plants in any of 
such buildings; for heating the Government Printing Office, Wash-
ington City Post Office, and Folger Shakespeare Library, reimburse-
ment for which shall be made and covered into the Treasuiy; personal 
and other services, fuel, oil, materials, waterproof wearing apparel, 
and all other necessary expenses in connection with the maintenance 
and oi^ration of the plant; $2,752,000. 
LIBRARY BUILDINGS AND GROINDS 
STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL CARE 
For necessary expenditui*es for mechanical and stiiictural mainte-
nance, including improvements, equipment, supplies, waterproof wear-
ing apparel, and personal and other services, $879,000, of which 
not to exceed $20,000 shall be available for expenditure without regard 
to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended. 
Not to exceed $265,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropria-
tion under this head for the fiscal year 1964, continued available imtil 
June 30, 1965, is hereby continued available imtil June 30, 1966. 
FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS 
For furnitui*e, partitionSj screens, shelving, and ele<:ti'iciil work 
pertaining thereto and I'epaiY's thereof, office and library equipment, 
apparatus, and lalx>r-S}»ving devices, $274,000. 
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[79 STAT. 
BOTANIC GARDEN 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For all necessary expenses incident to maintaining, operating, 
repairing, and improving the Botanic Garden and the nurseries, build-
ings, grounds, collections, and equipment pertaining thereto, including 
personal services; waterproof wearing apparel; not to exceed $25 
for emergency medical supplies; traveling expenses, including bus 
fares, not to exceed $275; the prevention and eradication of insect and 
oth^r pests .and plant diseases by purchase of materials and procure-
ment of personal services by contract without regard to the provisions 
of any other Act; purchase and exchange of motor trucks; purchase 
and exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of a passenger 
motor vehicle: purchase of botanical books, periodicals, and books of 
refei"ence, not to exceed $100; all under the direction of the Joint 
Committee on the Library; $467,000. 
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Library of Congress, not otherwise 
provided for, including development and maintenance of the Union 
Catalogs; custody, care, and maintenance of the Library Buildings; 
special clothing; cleaning, laundering, and repair of uniforms; and 
expenses of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board not properly 
chargeable to the income of any trust fund held by the Board, 
$ll,738,000j together with $174,600 to be derived by transfer from the 
appropriation "Salaries and expenses, National Science Foundation", 
of which $18,000 shall be retransferred to the appropriaticm "Distri-
bution of catalog cards, salaries and expenses." 
COPYRIGHT OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Copyright Office, including publica-
tion of the decisions of the L'nited States courts involving copvrights, 
$2,021,000. 
T-(Ecasr^\TivE REFERENCE SFJIVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 203 
of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended (2 U.S.C. 
6
0 Stat. 836. 
166), $2,524,000: Provided^ That no part of this appropriation may 
be used to pay any salary or expense m connection with any publica-
tion, or preparation of material therefor (except the Digest or Public 
General Bills), to be issued by the Library oi Congress unless such 
publication has obtained prior approval of either the Committee on 
House Administration or the Senate Committee on Rules and 
Administration. 
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DISTRIBUTION OP CATALOG CARM 
SALAKLES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the preparation and distribution of 
catalog cards and other publications of the Library, $4,035,000: 
Provided^ That $200,000 of this appropriation shall be apportioned 
for use pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended 
i 
(31 U.S.C. 665), only to the extent necessary to provide for expenses 
(excluding permanent personal services) for workload increases not 
anticipated in the budget estimates and which cannot be provided for 
by normal budgetary adjustments. 
BOOKS FOR THE GENERAL COLLECTIONS 
For necessary expenses (except personal services) for acquiation 
of books, periodicals, and newspapers, and all other material for the 
increase of the Library, $780,000, to remain available until expended, 
including $25,000 to be available solely for the purchase, when spe-
cifically approved by the Librarian, of special and unique materials 
for additions to the collections. 
BOOKS FOR THE LAW LIBRARY 
For necessary expenses (except personal services) for acquisition 
of books, legal periodicals, and all other material for the increase of 
the law library, $125,000, to remain available until expended. 
BOOKS FOR THE BLIND 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For salaries and expenses to carry out the provisions of the Act 
approved March 3, 1931 (2 U.S.C. 135a), as amended, $2,675,000. 
y^It^tT'ezo.^'''' 
ORGANIZING AND MICROFILMING THE PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS 
SALARIES A N D EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the 'Act of 
August 16, 1957 (71 Stat. 368), $112,800, to remain available until 
expended. 
PRESERVATION OF MOTION PICTURES 
For expenses necessary for the preservation of motion pictures now 
in the custody of the Library, $50,000. 
COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF LIBRARY MATERIALS 
(SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) 
For necessary expenses for carrying out the provisions of section 
104 (n) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance) Act 
of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1704(n)), to remain available until 
^^ stat. 1790. 
expended, $1,844,900, of which $1,694,000 shall be available for pay-
ments in foreign currencies which the Treasury Department shall 
determine to be excess to the normal requirements of the United 
2 u s e 131 note. 
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States: Provided^ That this appropriation shall be available to reim-
biii'se the Depaitment of State for medical services rendered to 
employees of tlie Library of Congress stationed abroad. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations in this Act available to the Library of Congress for 
salaries shall be available for expenses of investigating the loyalty 
of Library employees; special and temporary services (including 
employees engaged by the day or hour or m piecework); and services 
as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 
60 Stat. 810. 
5 5 a ) . 
Not to exceed ten positions in the Library of Congress may be exempt 
from the provisions of appropriation Acts concerning tlie employ-
ment of aliens during the current fiscal year, but the Librarian shall 
not make any appointment to any such position until he has ascer-
tained that he cannot secure for such appointments a person in any 
of the categories specified in such provisions who possesses the special 
(qualifications for the particular position and also otherwise meets 
the general requirements for employment in the Library of Congress. 
G()VP:RNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
PRINTING AND BINDING 
For authorized printing and binding for the Congress; for printing 
and binding for the Architect of the Capitol; expenses necessaiy for 
preparing the semimonthly and session index to the Congi-essional 
4
9 Stat. 1546. 
Record, as authorized by law (44 U.S.C. 182); printing, binding, 
and distribution of the Federal Register (including the Code of 
g/ltJ^f^'glf • 
Federal Regulations) as authorized by law (44 U.S.C. 309, ,311, 311a); 
7
7 Stat! 343; 
aiid priiitiiig and binding of Government publications authorized by 
56 Stat. 1045. 
j^w to be distributed without charge to the recipients; $20,500,000: 
Provided^ That this appropriation shall not be available for printing 
and binding part 2 of the annual report of the Secretary of Agricul-
ture (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture) : Provided further^ That 
this appropriation shall be availal)le for the payment of obligations 
incurred under the appropriations for similar purposes for preceding 
fiscal yeai*s. 
OFFIC'K 
OF SrrERINTENDENT OF DO(^l'MENTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Sui)erintendent of Docu-
ments, including compensation of all employees in accordance wath 
the Act entitled "An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees 
and officers of the Government Printing Ofiice", approved June 7, 
43 Stat. 658. 
^924 (44 U.S.C. 40^ ; travel expenses (not to exceed $1,500); price 
lists and bibliographies; repairs to buildings, elevators, and machin-
ei*y; and supplying books to depository libraries; $5,829,000: Provided^ 
That $200,000 of this appropriation shall be apportioned for use pur-
suant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 
665), with the approval of the Public Printer, only to the extent neces-
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sary to provide for expenses (excluding permanent personal services) 
for workload increases not anticipated in the budget estimates and 
which cannot be provided for by normal budgetary adjustments. 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE REVOLVING FUND 
During the current fiscal year the Grovemment Printing Office 
revolving fund shall be available for the hire of one passenger motor 
vehicle and for the purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for 
replacement only. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 102. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be 
used for the maintenance or care of private vehicles. 
SEC. 103. Whenever any office or position not specifically estab-
lished by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is appropriated for herein 
or whenever the rate of compensation or designation of any position 
appropriated for herein is different from that specifically established 
for such position by such Act, the rate of compensation and the desig-
nation of the position, or either, appropriated for or provided herein, 
shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: Provided^ That the 
provisions herein for the various items of official expenses of Mem-
bers, officers, and cormnittees of the Senate and House, and clerk hire 
for Senators and Members shall be the permanent law with respect 
thereto: Provided further^ That the provisions relating to positions 
and salaries thereof carried in House Resolutions 685 and 904 of 
the Eighty-eighth Congress and the provisions of House Resolution 
831 of said Congress shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: 
Provided further^ That the provisions relating to positions and salaries 
thereof carried in House Resolutions 127, 248, 258, 312 and 313 of 
the Eighty-ninth Congress and the provisions of House Resolution 7 
of said Congress shall be the permanent law with respect thereto. 
This Act may be cited as the "I^egislative Branch Appropriation 
Act, 1966". 
Approved July 27, 1965. 
46 Stat. 32. 
2 u s e 60 a note. 
Short title. 
Public Law 89-91 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
T<. anieiul the joint resolution of January 28,11M8, providing for luenJI»er^^hiI) an.l 
participation by the United States in the South Pacific Coniniissiou. 
Rtaolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America In Congress assembled, That section 3(a) of the 
joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution providing for membership 
and participation by the United States in the South Pacific Commis-
sion and authorizing an appropriation therefor", as amended (22 
U.S.C. 280b) is hereby amended to read as follows: 
*'(a) such sums as may be required annually, not to exceed $200,000 
per fiscal year, for the payment by the United States of its propor-
tionate share of the expenses of the Commission and its auxiliary and 
subsidiary bodies, as set forth in article XIV of the agreement estab-
lishing the South Pacific Commission." 
Approved July 27, 1965. 
July 27, 1965 
[S. J. Res. 71] 
South Pacific 
Commission. 
U. S. partici-
pation. 
62 Stat. 15; 
78 Stat. 7. 
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