[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 76 (Thursday, June 16, 1994)]
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       LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1995

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed 
to the consideration of Calendar No. 460, H.R. 4454, the legislative 
branch appropriations bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The Senate proceeded to consider the bill (H.R. 4454) making 
appropriations for the legislative branch for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1995, and for other purposes, which had been reported 
from the Committee on Appropriations, with amendment; as follows:
  (The parts of the bill intended to be stricken are shown in boldface 
brackets and the parts of the bill intended to be inserted are shown in 
italic.)

                               H.R. 4454

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
     following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
     Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Legislative 
     Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, and for 
     other purposes, namely:

                   TITLE I--CONGRESSIONAL OPERATIONS

                                 SENATE

                    Mileage and Expenses Allowances


               mileage of the vice president and senators

       For mileage of the Vice President and Senators of the 
     United States, $60,000.

                           Expense Allowances

       For expense allowances of the Vice President, $10,000; the 
     President Pro Tempore of the Senate, $10,000; Majority Leader 
     of the Senate, $10,000; Minority Leader of the Senate, 
     $10,000; Majority Whip of the Senate, $5,000; Minority Whip 
     of the Senate, $5,000; and Chairmen of the Majority and 
     Minority Conference Committees, $3,000 for each Chairman; in 
     all, $56,000.

    Representation Allowances for the Majority and Minority Leaders

       For representation allowances of the Majority and Minority 
     Leaders of the Senate, $15,000 for each such Leader; in all, 
     $30,000.

                    Salaries, Officers and Employees

       For compensation of officers, employees, and others as 
     authorized by law, including agency contributions, 
     $71,338,000, which shall be paid from this appropriation 
     without regard to the below limitations, as follows:


                      office of the vice president

       For the Office of the Vice President, $1,513,000.


                  office of the president pro tempore

       For the Office of the President Pro Tempore, $457,000.


              offices of the majority and minority leaders

       For Offices of the Majority and Minority Leaders, 
     $2,195,000.


               offices of the majority and minority whips

       For Offices of the Majority and Minority Whips, $656,000.


                         conference committees

       For the Conference of the Majority and the Conference of 
     the Minority, at rates of compensation to be fixed by the 
     Chairman of each such committee, $996,000 for each such 
     committee; in all, $1,992,000.


 offices of the secretaries of the conference of the majority and the 
                       conference of the minority

       For Offices of the Secretaries of the Conference of the 
     Majority and the Conference of the Minority, $384,000.


                         office of the chaplain

       For Office of the Chaplain, $192,000.


                        office of the secretary

       For Office of the Secretary, $12,961,000.


             office of the sergeant at arms and doorkeeper

       For Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, 
     $32,739,000.


        offices of the secretaries for the majority and minority

       For Offices of the Secretary for the Majority and the 
     Secretary for the Minority, $1,197,000.


               agency contributions and related expenses

       For agency contributions for employee benefits, as 
     authorized by law, and related expenses, $17,052,000.

            Office of the Legislative Counsel of the Senate

       For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Legislative 
     Counsel of the Senate, $3,381,000.

                     Office of Senate Legal Counsel

       For salaries and expenses of the Office of Senate Legal 
     Counsel, $936,000.

Expense Allowances of the Secretary of the Senate, Sergeant at Arms and 
Doorkeeper of the Senate, and Secretaries for the Majority and Minority 
                             of the Senate

       For expense allowances of the Secretary of the Senate, 
     $3,000; Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, 
     $3,000; Secretary for the Majority of the Senate, $3,000; 
     Secretary for the Minority of the Senate, $3,000; in all, 
     $12,000.

                   Contingent Expenses of the Senate


                        senate policy committees

       For salaries and expenses of the Majority Policy Committee 
     and the Minority Policy Committee, $1,287,000 for each such 
     committee; in all, $2,574,000.


                      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, as amended, section 112 of 
     Public Law 96-304 and Senate Resolution 281, agreed to March 
     11, 1980, $78,112,000.


  expenses of united states senate caucus on international narcotics 
                                control

       For expenses of the United States Senate Caucus on 
     International Narcotics Control, $348,000.


                        secretary of the senate

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For expenses of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, 
     $1,966,500 and, in addition, $7,000,000, to be derived by 
     transfer from funds appropriated in fiscal year 1992 for 
     ``Salaries, Officers and Employees'' and to remain available 
     until September 30, 1998.


             sergeant at arms and doorkeeper of the senate

       For expenses of the Office of the Sergeant at Arms and 
     Doorkeeper of the Senate, $74,894,000.


                          miscellaneous items

       For miscellaneous items, $7,429,000.


        senators' official personnel and office expense account

       For Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense 
     Account, $203,542,000.

               Office of Senate Fair Employment Practices

       For salaries and expenses of the Office of Senate Fair 
     Employment Practices, $889,000.

                     Settlements and Awards Reserve

       For expenses for settlements and awards, $1,000,000.


                      stationery (revolving fund)

       For stationery for the President of the Senate, $4,500, for 
     officers of the Senate and the Conference of the Majority and 
     Conference of the Minority of the Senate, $8,500; in all, 
     $13,000.


                          official mail costs

       For expenses necessary for official mail costs of the 
     Senate, $15,000,000.


                               rescission

       Of the funds previously appropriated under the heading 
     ``SENATE'', $23,000,000 are rescinded.


                       administrative provisions

       Sec. 1. Effective on and after the date of enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of the Senate, subject to the 
     approval of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, is 
     authorized to transfer up to $300,000 from any Senate 
     appropriations account with respect to which the Secretary 
     has disbursing authority to the revolving fund established 
     under section 2(c) under the subheading ``ADMINISTRATIVE 
     PROVISIONS'' under the heading ``SENATE'' in Public Law 102-
     392 (2 U.S.C. 121d(c)) to provide additional capitalization 
     for such revolving fund. Any moneys so transferred shall be 
     available for use in the same manner and to the same extent 
     as the moneys otherwise in such revolving fund.
       Sec. 2. (a) Not later than September 30, 1995, the 
     Secretary of the Senate shall submit to the Committee on 
     Rules and Administration a report evaluating the quality and 
     scope of the educational experience available to visitors to 
     the Senate concerning the constitutional and historical role 
     of the Senate in American Government and society.
       (b) The Secretary of the Senate shall include in the report 
     a plan for the improvement of the educational experience 
     available to Senate visitors. Senate officers and officials 
     and legislative branch support agencies shall work with the 
     Secretary of the Senate in the development of the plan. 
     Appropriate executive branch agencies, such as the National 
     Archives and Records Administration and the Smithsonian 
     Institution, are encouraged to offer assistance to the 
     Secretary of the Senate in developing the plan.
       (c) There are authorized to be paid out of the Contingent 
     Fund of the Senate, upon vouchers approved by the Secretary 
     of the Senate, such sums as are necessary to reimburse the 
     routine expenses associated with developing the report 
     required by this section.
       Sec. 3. (a) Section 105(a) of the Legislative Branch 
     Appropriations Act 1965 (Public Law 88-454; 2 U.S.C. 104a) is 
     amended by adding at the end thereof the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(4) Each report by the Secretary of the Senate required 
     by paragraph (1) shall contain a separate summary of Senate 
     accounts statement for each office of the Senate authorized 
     to obligate appropriated funds, including each Senator's 
     office, each officer of the Senate, and each committee of the 
     Senate. The summary of Senate accounts statement shall 
     include--
       ``(A) the total amount of appropriations made available or 
     allocated to the office;
       ``(B) any supplemental appropriation, transfer of funds, or 
     rescission and the effect of such action on the appropriation 
     or allocation to the office;
       ``(C) total expenses incurred for salary and office 
     expenses; and
       ``(D) the unexpended balance.''.
       (b) Section 318 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations 
     Act, 1991 (Public Law 101-520; 2 U.S.C. 59f) is amended by 
     striking the period at the end of the last sentence and 
     inserting the following: ``, and in the case of each Senator, 
     the allocation made to such Senator from the appropriation 
     for official mail expenses.''.
       (c) The amendments made by this section shall be effective 
     with respect to--
       (1) reports and statements covering periods beginning on 
     and after October 1, 1994; and
       (2) appropriations made and obligations incurred on and 
     after such date.
       Sec. 4. (a) There is established in the Treasury of the 
     United States a revolving fund within the contingent fund of 
     the Senate to be known as the Daniel Webster Senate Page 
     Residence Revolving Fund (hereafter referred to in this 
     section as the ``fund''). The fund shall consist of all 
     rental payments and other moneys collected or received by the 
     Sergeant at Arms with regard to the Daniel Webster Senate 
     Page Residence. All moneys in the fund shall be available 
     without fiscal year limitation for disbursement by the 
     Secretary of the Senate in connection with operation and 
     maintenance of the Daniel Webster Senate Page Residence not 
     normally performed by the Architect of the Capitol. In 
     addition, such moneys may be used by the Sergeant at Arms to 
     purchase food and food related items and fund activities for 
     the pages.
       (b) All moneys received from rental payments and other 
     moneys collected or received by the Sergeant at Arms with 
     regard to the Daniel Webster Senate Page Residence shall be 
     deposited in the fund and shall be available for purposes of 
     this section.
       (c) Disbursements from the fund shall be made upon vouchers 
     approved by the Sergeant at Arms, or the designee of the 
     Sergeant at Arms.
       (d) The Sergeant at Arms is authorized to prescribe such 
     regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions 
     of this section and to provide for the operations of the 
     Daniel Webster Senate Page Residence.
       Sec. 5. Effective October 1, 1994, each of the figures 
     contained in section 506(b)(3)(A)(iii) of the Supplemental 
     Appropriations Act, 1973 (2 U.S.C. 58(b)(3)(A)(iii)) is 
     increased by $20,000.
       Sec. 6. (a) This section shall apply to mailings by 
     Senators, Senators-elect, and offices of the Senate made 
     during fiscal year 1995 and each fiscal year thereafter in 
     addition to any other law relating to the use of the franking 
     privilege.
       (b) For the purposes of this paragraph--
       (1) the term ``mass mailing''--
       (A) means, with respect to a session of Congress, a mailing 
     of 500 or more newsletters or other pieces of mail with 
     substantially identical content (whether such mail is 
     deposited singly or in bulk, or at the same time or different 
     times), but
       (B) does not include a mailing--
       (i) of matter in direct response to a communication from a 
     person to whom the matter is mailed (to the extent of 2 such 
     mailings) that--

       (I) in the case of an initial response, is mailed at any 
     time; or
       (II) in the case of a followup response, is mailed during 
     that Congress or no later than 60 days after the sine die 
     adjournment of that Congress;

       (ii) to other Members of Congress or to a Federal, State, 
     or local government official;
       (iii) of a news release to the communications media;
       (iv) of a town meeting or mobile office notice; or
       (v) of a Federal publication or other item that is provided 
     by the Senate to all Senators or made available by the Senate 
     for purchase by all Senators from official funds specifically 
     for distribution.
       (c) A Senator, Senator-elect, or office of the Senate may 
     not mail a mass mailing under the frank.
       (d) The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration shall 
     prescribe rules and regulations and take other action as the 
     Committee considers necessary and proper for Senators and 
     Senators-elect to comply with this section and regulations.
       Sec. 7. Of the funds previously appropriated under the 
     heading ``SENATE'', $65,000,000 shall not remain available 
     for obligation beyond this date of enactment of this Act.

                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

      Payments to Widows and Heirs of Deceased Members of Congress

       For payment to the estate of William H. Natcher, late a 
     Representative from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, $133,600.

                         Salaries and Expenses

       For salaries and expenses of the House of Representatives, 
     $728,468,000, as follows:

                        house leadership offices

       For salaries and expenses, as authorized by law, 
     $6,096,000, including: Office of the Speaker, $1,444,000, 
     including $25,000 for official expenses of the Speaker; 
     Office of the Majority Floor Leader, $1,042,000, including 
     $10,000 for official expenses of the Majority Leader; Office 
     of the Minority Floor Leader, $1,429,000, including $10,000 
     for official expenses of the Minority Leader; Office of the 
     Majority Whip, $1,284,000, including $5,000 for official 
     expenses of the Majority Whip and not to exceed $563,000 for 
     the Chief Deputy Majority Whips; and Office of the Minority 
     Whip, $897,000, including $5,000 for official expenses of the 
     Minority Whip and not to exceed $104,000 for the Chief Deputy 
     Minority Whip.


                          members' clerk hire

       For staff employed by each Member in the discharge of 
     official and representative duties, $240,417,000.


                          committee employees

       For professional and clerical employees of standing 
     committees, including the Committee on Appropriations and the 
     Committee on the Budget, $73,925,000.


                   committee on the budget (studies)

       For salaries, expenses, and studies by the Committee on the 
     Budget, and temporary personal services for such committee to 
     be expended in accordance with sections 101(c), 606, 703, and 
     901(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, and to be 
     available for reimbursement to agencies for services 
     performed, $401,000.


                standing committees, special and select

       For salaries and expenses of standing committees, special 
     and select, authorized by the House, $53,191,000.


                   committee on house administration

                       house information systems

       For salaries, expenses and temporary personal services of 
     House Information Systems, under the direction of the 
     Committee on House Administration, $22,437,000, of which 
     $16,017,000 is provided herein: Provided, That House 
     Information Systems is authorized to receive reimbursement 
     for services provided from Members of the House of 
     Representatives and other Governmental entities and such 
     reimbursement shall be deposited in the Treasury for credit 
     to this account: Provided further, That amounts so credited 
     for fiscal year 1994 and not obligated shall be available for 
     obligation in fiscal year 1995.

                        allowances and expenses

       For allowances and expenses as authorized by House 
     resolution or law, $244,572,000, including: Official Expenses 
     of Members, $79,800,000; supplies, materials, administrative 
     costs and Federal tort claims, $6,103,000; net expenses of 
     purchase, lease and maintenance of office equipment, 
     $11,779,000; net expenses for telecommunications, 
     $10,872,000; furniture and furnishings, $2,012,000; 
     stenographic reporting of committee hearings, $1,100,000; 
     reemployed annuitants reimbursements, $1,279,000; Government 
     contributions to employees' life insurance fund, retirement 
     funds, Social Security fund, Medicare fund, health benefits 
     fund, and worker's and unemployment compensation, 
     $130,849,000; 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, $778,000.


                           child care center

       For salaries and expenses of the House of Representatives 
     Child Care Center, such amounts as are deposited in the 
     account established by section 312(d)(1) of the Legislative 
     Branch Appropriations Act, 1992 (40 U.S.C. 184g(d)(1)), 
     subject to the level specified in the budget of the Center, 
     as submitted to the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
     of Representatives.


        committee on appropriations (studies and investigations)

       For salaries and expenses, studies and examinations of 
     executive agencies, by the Committee on Appropriations, and 
     temporary personal services 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, $6,495,000: 
     Provided, That the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, may in any fiscal 
     year pay all administrative uncontrollable overtime accrued 
     by its employees while on detail to the Committee on 
     Appropriations.


                          OFFICIAL MAIL COSTS

       For expenses necessary for official mail costs of the House 
     of Representatives, as authorized by law, $31,000,000.


                    salaries, officers and employees

       For compensation and expenses of officers and employees, as 
     authorized by law, $56,354,000, including: for salaries and 
     expenses of the Office of the Clerk, including not to exceed 
     $1,000 for official representation and reception expenses, 
     $14,158,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
     Sergeant at Arms, including not to exceed $500 for official 
     representation and reception expenses, $1,502,000; for 
     salaries and expenses of the Office of the Doorkeeper, 
     including overtime as authorized by law, $11,506,000; for 
     salaries and expenses of the Office of Director of Non-
     legislative and Financial Services, $16,360,000; for salaries 
     and expenses of the Office of Inspector General, $295,000; 
     for salaries and expenses of the Office of General Counsel, 
     $762,000; Office of the Chaplain, $124,000; Office of the 
     Parliamentarian, including the Parliamentarian and $2,000 for 
     preparing the Digest of Rules, $983,000; for salaries and 
     expenses of the Office of the Historian, $337,000; for 
     salaries and expenses of the Office of the Law Revision 
     Counsel of the House, $1,630,000; for salaries and expenses 
     of the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the House, 
     $4,400,000; six minority employees, $747,000; the House 
     Democratic Steering and Policy Committee and the Democratic 
     Caucus, $1,523,000; the House Republican Conference, 
     $1,523,000; and other authorized employees, $504,000.

                        Administrative Provision

       Sec. 101. (a) Transfer of Majority and Minority Printers to 
     Director of Non-legislative and Financial Services.--As soon 
     as practicable, but not later than October 1, 1994, authority 
     over the Majority and Minority Printers of the House of 
     Representatives shall be transferred to the Director of Non-
     legislative and Financial Services of the House.
       (b) Fees for Offices and Utilities.--
       (1) In general.--Upon the transfer required by subsection 
     (a), the Director shall charge the Majority and Minority 
     Printers a reasonable monthly fee for the rental of offices 
     and utilities.
       (2) Availability of receipts.--The amounts received under 
     this subsection shall be deposited in the Treasury of the 
     United States for credit to the appropriation for ``Salaries 
     and Expenses of the House of Representatives'', and shall be 
     available for expenditure in any fiscal year to the extent 
     provided in appropriations Acts.
       (c) Applicability.--This section shall take effect upon the 
     date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to any 
     fiscal year.

                              JOINT ITEMS

       For Joint Committees, as follows:

                        joint economic committee

       For salaries and expenses of the Joint Economic Committee, 
     $4,090,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate.


                      joint committee on printing

       For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on 
     Printing, $1,370,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary of the 
     Senate.


                      joint committee on taxation

       For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on 
     Taxation, $6,019,000, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the 
     House.
       For other joint items, as follows:

                   Office of the Attending Physician

       For medical supplies, equipment, and contingent expenses of 
     the emergency rooms, and for the Attending Physician and his 
     assistants, including (1) an allowance of $1,500 per month to 
     the Attending Physician; (2) an allowance of $500 per month 
     each to two medical officers while on duty in the Attending 
     Physician's office; (3) an allowance of $500 per month each 
     to two assistants and $400 per month each not to exceed nine 
     assistants on the basis heretofore provided for such 
     assistance; and (4) $918,000 for reimbursement to the 
     Department of the Navy for expenses incurred for staff and 
     equipment assigned to the Office of the Attending Physician, 
     which shall be advanced and credited to the applicable 
     appropriation or appropriations from which such salaries, 
     allowances, and other expenses are payable and shall be 
     available for all the purposes thereof, $1,335,000, to be 
     disbursed by the Clerk of the House.

                          Capitol Police Board

                             Capitol Police


                                salaries

       [For the Capitol Police Board for salaries, including 
     overtime, and Government contributions to employees' benefits 
     funds, as authorized by law, of officers, members, and 
     employees of the Capitol Police, $65,991,000, of which 
     $31,833,000 is provided to the Sergeant at Arms of the House 
     of Representatives, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the 
     House, and $34,158,000 is provided to the Sergeant at Arms 
     and Doorkeeper of the Senate, to be disbursed by the 
     Secretary of the Senate: Provided, That of the amounts 
     appropriated for fiscal year 1995 for salaries, including 
     overtime, and Government contributions to employees' benefits 
     funds under this heading, such amounts as may be necessary 
     may be transferred between the Sergeant at Arms of the House 
     of Representatives and the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of 
     the Senate, upon approval of the Committee on Appropriations 
     of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the Senate.]
       For the Capitol Police Board for salaries, including 
     overtime, hazardous duty pay differential, clothing allowance 
     of not more than $600 each for members required to wear 
     civilian attire, and Government contributions to employees' 
     benefits funds, as authorized by law, of officers, members, 
     and employees of the Capitol Police, $69,382,000, of which 
     $33,463,000 is provided to the Sergeant at Arms of the House 
     of Representatives, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the 
     House, and $35,919,000 is provided to the Sergeant at Arms 
     and Doorkeeper of the Senate, to be disbursed by the 
     Secretary of the Senate: Provided, That of the amounts 
     appropriated for fiscal year 1995 for salaries, including 
     overtime, hazardous duty pay differential, clothing allowance 
     of not more than $600 each for members required to wear 
     civilian attire, and Government contributions to employees' 
     benefits under this heading, such amounts as may be necessary 
     may be transferred between the Sergeant at Arms of the House 
     of Representatives and the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of 
     the Senate, upon approval of the Committee on Appropriations 
     of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the Senate.


                            general expenses

       For the Capitol Police Board for necessary expenses of the 
     Capitol Police, including motor vehicles, communications and 
     other equipment, uniforms, weapons, supplies, materials, 
     training, medical services, the employee assistance program, 
     not more than $2,000 for the awards program, postage, 
     telephone service, travel advances, relocation of instructor 
     and liaison personnel for the Federal Law Enforcement 
     Training Center, and $85 per month for extra services 
     performed for the Capitol Police Board by an employee of the 
     Sergeant at Arms of the Senate or the House of 
     Representatives designated by the Chairman of the Board, 
     $2,000,000, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of 
     Representatives: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, the cost of basic training for the Capitol 
     Police at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center for 
     fiscal year 1995 shall be paid by the Secretary of the 
     Treasury from funds available to the Department of the 
     Treasury.


                        administrative provision

       Sec. 102. Amounts appropriated for fiscal year 1995 for the 
     Capitol Police Board under the heading ``Capitol Police'' may 
     be transferred between the headings ``salaries'' and 
     ``general expenses'', upon approval of the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives.

                         Capitol Guide Service

       For salaries and expenses of the Capitol Guide Service, 
     $1,628,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate: 
     Provided, That none of these funds shall be used to employ 
     more than thirty-three individuals: Provided further, That 
     the Capitol Guide Board is authorized, during emergencies, to 
     employ not more than two additional individuals for not more 
     than one hundred twenty days each, and not more than ten 
     additional individuals for not more than six months each, for 
     the Capitol Guide Service.

                        Special Services Office

       For salaries and expenses of the Special Services Office, 
     $363,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate.

                    OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT

                         Salaries and Expenses

       For salaries and expenses necessary to carry out the 
     provisions of the Technology Assessment Act of 1972 (Public 
     Law 92-484), including official reception and representation 
     expenses (not to exceed $5,500 from the Trust Fund), and 
     expenses incurred in administering an employee incentive 
     awards program (not to exceed $2,500), and rental of space in 
     the District of Columbia, [$21,931,000] $21,970,000: 
     Provided, That none of the funds in this Act shall be 
     available for salaries or expenses of any employee of the 
     Office of Technology Assessment in excess of 143 staff 
     employees: Provided further, That no part of this 
     appropriation shall be available for assessments or 
     activities not initiated and approved in accordance with 
     section 3(d) of Public Law 92-484: Provided further, That 
     none of the funds in this Act shall be available for salaries 
     or expenses of employees of the Office of Technology 
     Assessment in connection with any reimbursable study for 
     which funds are provided from sources other than 
     appropriations made under this Act, or shall be available for 
     any other administrative expenses incurred by the Office of 
     Technology Assessment in carrying out such a study.

                      CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE

                         Salaries and Expenses

       For salaries and expenses necessary to carry out the 
     provisions of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (Public 
     Law 93-344), including not to exceed $2,500 to be expended on 
     the certification of the Director of the Congressional Budget 
     Office in connection with official representation and 
     reception expenses, [$23,133,000] $23,188,000: Provided, That 
     none of these funds shall be available for the purchase or 
     hire of a passenger motor vehicle: Provided further, That 
     none of the funds in this Act shall be available for salaries 
     or expenses of any employee of the Congressional Budget 
     Office in excess of 221 fulltime equivalent positions: 
     Provided further, That any sale or lease of property, 
     supplies, or services to the Congressional Budget Office 
     shall be deemed to be a sale or lease of such property, 
     supplies, or services to the Congress subject to section 903 
     of Public Law 98-63: Provided further, That the Director of 
     the Congressional Budget Office shall have the authority, 
     within the limits of available appropriations, to dispose of 
     surplus or obsolete personal property by inter-agency 
     transfer, donation, or discarding.

                        ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

                 Office of the Architect of the Capitol

                                salaries

       For the Architect of the Capitol, the Assistant Architect 
     of the Capitol, and other personal services, at rates of pay 
     provided by law, [$8,927,000] $9,103,000.


                                 travel

       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.

                          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, $100,000, [to remain available 
     until expended.]

                     Capitol Buildings and Grounds


                           capitol buildings

       For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care and 
     operation of the Capitol and electrical substations of the 
     Senate and House office buildings, under the jurisdiction of 
     the Architect of the Capitol, including furnishings and 
     office equipment; including not to exceed $1,000 for official 
     reception and representation expenses, to be expended as the 
     Architect of the Capitol may approve; purchase or exchange, 
     maintenance and operation of a passenger motor vehicle; 
     security installations which are approved by the Capitol 
     Police Board, authorized by House Concurrent Resolution 550, 
     Ninety-Second Congress, agreed to September 19, 1972, the 
     cost limitation of which is hereby further increased by 
     $200,000; and 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, [$22,340,000] $22,797,000, of which 
     $2,763,000 shall remain available until expended.


                            capitol grounds

       For all necessary expenses for care and improvement of 
     grounds surrounding the Capitol, the Senate and House office 
     buildings, and the Capitol Power Plant, [$5,201,000] 
     $5,270,000, of which $25,000 shall remain available until 
     expended.


                        senate office buildings

       For all necessary expenses for maintenance, care and 
     operation of Senate Office Buildings; and furniture and 
     furnishings, to be expended under the control and supervision 
     of the Architect of the Capitol, $47,619,000, of which 
     $7,709,000 shall remain available until expended.


                         house office buildings

       For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care and 
     operation of the House office buildings, including the 
     position of Superintendent of Garages as authorized by law, 
     $41,364,000, of which $10,260,000 shall remain available 
     until expended.

                          capitol power plant

       For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care and 
     operation of the Capitol Power Plant; lighting, heating, 
     power (including the purchase of electrical energy) and water 
     and sewer services for the Capitol, Senate and House office 
     buildings, Library of Congress buildings, and the grounds 
     about the same, Botanic Garden, Senate garage, and air 
     conditioning refrigeration not supplied from plants in any of 
     such buildings; heating the Government Printing Office and 
     Washington City Post Office, and heating and chilled water 
     for air conditioning for the Supreme Court Building, Union 
     Station complex, Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building 
     and the Folger Shakespeare Library, expenses for which shall 
     be advanced or reimbursed upon request of the Architect of 
     the Capitol and amounts so received shall be deposited into 
     the Treasury to the credit of this appropriation, 
     [$33,342,000] $33,437,000, of which $865,000 shall remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed 
     $3,200,000 of the funds credited or to be reimbursed to this 
     appropriation as herein provided shall be available for 
     obligation during fiscal year 1995.

                        Administrative Provision

       Sec. 103. The matter in chapter III of title I of the 
     Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1975 under ``Capitol 
     Buildings and Grounds'' under the heading ``ARCHITECT OF THE 
     CAPITOL'' (40 U.S.C. 166b-2) is amended by striking ``to 
     grade 11'' and inserting ``at not to exceed grade 12''.

                          LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

                     Congressional Research Service


                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     section 203 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 
     U.S.C. 166) and to revise and extend the Annotated 
     Constitution of the United States of America, [$58,938,000] 
     $60,459,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation may 
     be used to pay any salary or expense in connection with any 
     publication, or preparation of material therefor (except the 
     Digest of Public General Bills), to be issued by the Library 
     of Congress unless such publication has obtained prior 
     approval of either the Committee on House Administration of 
     the House of Representatives or the Committee on Rules and 
     Administration of the Senate: Provided further, That, 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, the compensation 
     of the Director of the Congressional Research Service, 
     Library of Congress, shall be at an annual rate which is 
     equal to the annual rate of basic pay for positions at level 
     IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title 5, 
     United States Code.

                       GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

                   Congressional Printing and Binding

       For authorized printing and binding for the Congress and 
     the distribution of Congressional information in any format; 
     printing and binding for the Architect of the Capitol; 
     expenses necessary for preparing the semimonthly and session 
     index to the Congressional Record, as authorized by law (44 
     U.S.C. 902); printing and binding of Government publications 
     authorized by law to be distributed to Members of Congress; 
     and printing, binding, and distribution of Government 
     publications authorized by law to be distributed without 
     charge to the recipient, [$87,717,000] $89,724,000: Provided, 
     That this appropriation shall not be available for printing 
     and binding part 2 of the annual report of the Secretary of 
     Agriculture (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture) nor for 
     copies of the permanent edition of the Congressional Record 
     for individual Representatives, Resident Commissioners or 
     Delegates authorized under 44 U.S.C. 906: Provided further, 
     That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of 
     obligations incurred under the appropriations for similar 
     purposes for preceding fiscal years.
       This title may be cited as the ``Congressional Operations 
     Appropriations Act, 1995''.

                        TITLE II--OTHER AGENCIES

                             BOTANIC GARDEN

                         Salaries and Expenses


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care and 
     operation of the Botanic Garden and the nurseries, buildings, 
     grounds, and collections; and purchase and exchange, 
     maintenance, repair, and operation of a passenger motor 
     vehicle; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on 
     the Library, [$3,182,000] $3,230,000, and, in addition, 
     $7,000,000 to remain available until expended to be derived 
     by transfer from funds previously made available without 
     fiscal year limitation under the heading ``ARCHITECT OF THE 
     CAPITOL''.

                          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 and custodial care of the 
     Library buildings; special clothing; cleaning, laundering and 
     repair of uniforms; preservation of motion pictures in the 
     custody of the Library; operation and maintenance of the 
     American Folklife Center in the Library; preparation and 
     distribution of catalog cards and other publications of the 
     Library; hire or purchase of one passenger motor vehicle; and 
     expenses of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board not 
     properly chargeable to the income of any trust fund held by 
     the Board, [$207,857,000] $210,164,000, of which not more 
     than $7,869,000 shall be derived from collections credited to 
     this appropriation during fiscal year 1995 under the Act of 
     June 28, 1902 (chapter 1301; 32 Stat. 480; 2 U.S.C. 150): 
     Provided, That the total amount available for obligation 
     shall be reduced by the amount by which collections are less 
     than the $7,869,000: Provided further, That of the total 
     amount appropriated, $8,458,000 is to remain available until 
     expended for acquisition of books, periodicals, and 
     newspapers, and all other materials including subscriptions 
     for bibliographic services for the Library, including $40,000 
     to be available solely for the purchase, when specifically 
     approved by the Librarian, of special and unique materials 
     for additions to the collections.

                            Copyright Office


                         salaries and expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Copyright Office, including 
     publication of the decisions of the United States courts 
     involving copyrights, [$27,186,000] $27,456,000, of which not 
     more than $14,500,000 shall be derived from collections 
     credited to this appropriation during fiscal year 1995 under 
     17 U.S.C. 708(c), and not more than [$2,891,000] $2,911,000 
     shall be derived from collections during fiscal year 1995 
     under 17 U.S.C. 111(d)(2), 119(b)(2), 802(h), and 1005: 
     Provided, That the total amount available for obligation 
     shall be reduced by the amount by which collections are less 
     than [$17,391,000] $17,411,000: Provided further, That up to 
     $100,000 of the amount appropriated is available for the 
     maintenance of an ``International Copyright Institute'' in 
     the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress for the 
     purpose of training nationals of developing countries in 
     intellectual property laws and policies: Provided further, 
     That not to exceed $2,250 may be expended on the 
     certification of the Librarian of Congress or his designee, 
     in connection with official representation and reception 
     expenses for activities of the International Copyright 
     Institute.

             Books for the Blind and Physically Handicapped


                         salaries and expenses

       For salaries and expenses to carry out the provisions of 
     the Act of March 3, 1931 (chapter 400; 46 Stat. 1487; 2 
     U.S.C. 135a), [$44,622,000] $44,951,000, of which 
     [$10,896,000] $11,694,000 shall remain available until 
     expended.

                       Furniture and Furnishings

       For necessary expenses for the purchase and repair of 
     furniture, furnishings, office and library equipment, 
     $5,825,000, of which $1,886,000 shall be available until 
     expended only for the purchase and supply of furniture, 
     shelving, furnishings, and related costs necessary for the 
     renovation and restoration of the Thomas Jefferson and John 
     Adams Library buildings.

                       Administrative Provisions

       Sec. 201. Appropriations in this Act available to the 
     Library of Congress shall be available, in an amount not to 
     exceed $194,290, of which $58,100 is for the Congressional 
     Research Service, when specifically authorized by the 
     Librarian, for attendance at meetings concerned with the 
     function or activity for which the appropriation is made.
       Sec. 202. (a) No part of the funds appropriated in this Act 
     shall be used by the Library of Congress to administer any 
     flexible or compressed work schedule which--
       (1) applies to any manager or supervisor in a position the 
     grade or level of which is equal to or higher than GS-15; and
       (2) grants such manager or supervisor the right to not be 
     at work for all or a portion of a workday because of time 
     worked by the manager or supervisor on another workday.
       (b) For purposes of this section, the term ``manager or 
     supervisor'' means any management official or supervisor, as 
     such terms are defined in section 7103(a) (10) and (11) of 
     title 5, United States Code.
       Sec. 203. Appropriated funds received by the Library of 
     Congress from other Federal agencies to cover general and 
     administrative overhead costs generated by performing 
     reimbursable work for other agencies under the authority of 
     31 U.S.C. 1535 and 1536 shall not be used to employ more than 
     65 employees and may be expended or obligated--
       (1) in the case of a reimbursement, only to such extent or 
     in such amounts as are provided in appropriations Acts; or
       (2) in the case of an advance payment, only--
       (A) to pay for such general or administrative overhead 
     costs as are attributable to the work performed for such 
     agency; or
       (B) to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in 
     appropriations Acts, with respect to any purpose not 
     allowable under subparagraph (A).
       Sec. 204. Not to exceed $5,000 of any funds appropriated to 
     the Library of Congress may be expended, on the certification 
     of the Librarian of Congress, in connection with official 
     representation and reception expenses for the Library of 
     Congress incentive awards program.
       Sec. 205. Not to exceed $12,000 of funds appropriated to 
     the Library of Congress may be expended, on the certification 
     of the Librarian of Congress or his designee, in connection 
     with official representation and reception expenses for the 
     Overseas Field Offices.
       Sec. 206. Under the heading ``Library of Congress'' 
     obligational authority shall be available, in an amount not 
     to exceed $75,236,000 for reimbursable activities, $8,706,000 
     for revolving fund activities, and $6,150,000 for non-
     expenditure transfer activities in support of parliamentary 
     development during the current fiscal year.

                        ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

                     Library Buildings and Grounds


                     structural and mechanical care

       For all necessary expenses for the mechanical and 
     structural maintenance, care and operation of the Library 
     buildings and grounds, [$9,860,000] $13,483,000, of which 
     [$941,000] $4,441,000 shall remain available until expended.

                       GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

                 Office of Superintendent of Documents


                         salaries and expenses

       For expenses of the Office of Superintendent of Documents 
     necessary to provide for the cataloging and indexing of 
     Government publications and their distribution to the public, 
     Members of Congress, other Government agencies, and 
     designated depository and international exchange libraries as 
     authorized by law, [$30,600,000] $32,207,000: Provided, That 
     the objectives of chapter 41 of title 44, United States Code, 
     as enacted by the Government Printing Office Electronic 
     Information Access Enhancement Act of 1993, shall be carried 
     out through cost savings: Provided further, That travel 
     expenses, including travel expenses of the Depository Library 
     Council to the Public Printer, shall not exceed $130,000: 
     Provided further, That funds, not to exceed $2,000,000, from 
     current year appropriations are authorized for producing and 
     disseminating Congressional Serial Sets and other related 
     Congressional/non-Congressional publications for 1993 and 
     1994 to depository and other designated libraries.

               Government Printing Office Revolving Fund

       The Government Printing Office is hereby authorized to make 
     such expenditures, within the limits of funds available and 
     in accord with the law, and to make such contracts and 
     commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as 
     provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control 
     Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs and 
     purposes set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year 
     for the ``Government Printing Office revolving fund'': 
     Provided, That not to exceed $2,500 may be expended on the 
     certification of the Public Printer in connection with 
     official representation and reception expenses: Provided 
     further, That the revolving fund shall be available for the 
     hire or purchase of passenger motor vehicles, not to exceed a 
     fleet of twelve: Provided further, That expenditures in 
     connection with travel expenses of the advisory councils to 
     the Public Printer shall be deemed necessary to carry out the 
     provisions of title 44, United States Code: Provided further, 
     That the revolving fund shall be available for services as 
     authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for individuals not 
     to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for level 
     V of the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5316): Provided 
     further, That the revolving fund and the funds provided under 
     the paragraph entitled ``office of superintendent of 
     documents, salaries and expenses'' together may not be 
     available for the full-time equivalent employment of more 
     than [4,193] 4,493 workyears: Provided further, That the 
     revolving fund shall be available for expenses not to exceed 
     $500,000 for the development of plans and design of a multi-
     purpose facility: Provided further, That activities financed 
     through the revolving fund may provide information in any 
     format: Provided further, That the revolving fund shall not 
     be used to administer any flexible or compressed work 
     schedule which applies to any manager or supervisor in a 
     position the grade or level of which is equal to or higher 
     than GS-15: Provided further, That expenses for attendance at 
     meetings shall not exceed $75,000.

                       GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the General Accounting Office, 
     including not to exceed $7,000 to be expended on the 
     certification of the Comptroller General of the United States 
     in connection with official representation and reception 
     expenses; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at 
     rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate 
     equivalent to the rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule 
     (5 U.S.C. 5315); hire of one passenger motor vehicle; advance 
     payments in foreign countries in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 
     3324; benefits comparable to those payable under sections 
     901(5), 901(6) and 901(8) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 
     (22 U.S.C. 4081(5), 4081(6) and 4081(8)); and under 
     regulations prescribed by the Comptroller General of the 
     United States, rental of living quarters in foreign countries 
     and travel benefits comparable with those which are now or 
     hereafter may be granted single employees of the Agency for 
     International Development, including single Foreign Service 
     personnel assigned to AID projects, by the Administrator of 
     the Agency for International Development--or his designee--
     under the authority of section 636(b) of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2396(b)); [$439,525,000] 
     $443,360,000: Provided, That not more than $1,000,000 of 
     reimbursements received incident to the operation of the 
     General Accounting Office Building shall be available for use 
     in fiscal year 1995: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
     31 U.S.C. 9105 hereafter amounts reimbursed to the 
     Comptroller General pursuant to that section shall be 
     deposited to the appropriation of the General Accounting 
     Office then available and remain available until expended, 
     and not more than $6,000,000 of such funds shall be available 
     for use in fiscal year 1995: Provided further, That this 
     appropriation and appropriations for administrative expenses 
     of any other department or agency which is a member of the 
     Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP) shall 
     be available to finance an appropriate share of JFMIP costs 
     as determined by the JFMIP, including the salary of the 
     Executive Director and secretarial support: Provided further, 
     That this appropriation and appropriations for administrative 
     expenses of any other department or agency which is a member 
     of the National Intergovernmental Audit Forum or a Regional 
     Intergovernmental Audit Forum shall be available to finance 
     an appropriate share of Forum costs as determined by the 
     Forum, including necessary travel expenses of non-Federal 
     participants. Payments hereunder to either the Forum or the 
     JFMIP may be credited as reimbursements to any appropriation 
     from which costs involved are initially financed: Provided 
     further, That to the extent that funds are otherwise 
     available for obligation, agreements or contracts for the 
     removal of asbestos, and renovation of the building and 
     building systems (including the heating, ventilation and air 
     conditioning system, electrical system and other major 
     building systems) of the General Accounting Office Building 
     may be made for periods not exceeding five years: Provided 
     further, That this appropriation and appropriations for 
     administrative expenses of any other department or agency 
     which is a member of the American Consortium on International 
     Public Administration (ACIPA) shall be available to finance 
     an appropriate share of ACIPA costs as determined by the 
     ACIPA, including any expenses attributable to membership of 
     ACIPA in the International Institute of Administrative 
     Sciences.

                     TITLE III--GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 301. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act 
     shall be used for the maintenance or care of private 
     vehicles, except for emergency assistance and cleaning as may 
     be provided under regulations relating to parking facilities 
     for the House of Representatives issued by the Committee on 
     House Administration and for the Senate issued by the 
     Committee on Rules and Administration.
       Sec. 302. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
     fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
       Sec. 303. Whenever any office or position not specifically 
     established 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 
     designation 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 Members, officers, and 
     committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, and 
     clerk hire for Senators and Members of the House of 
     Representatives shall be the permanent law with respect 
     thereto.
       Sec. 304. The expenditure of any appropriation under this 
     Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, 
     pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those 
     contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public 
     record and available for public inspection, except where 
     otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing 
     Executive order issued pursuant to existing law.
       Sec. 305. The last sentence of section 307(a) of the 
     Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1994 (2 U.S.C. 60-1 
     note) is repealed.
       Sec. 306. Annual and sick leave balances of employees 
     transferred from the Office of the Director of Non-
     legislative and Financial Services, House Postal Operations, 
     to the Architect of the Capitol, as of October 31, 1993, 
     shall be credited to the leave accounts of such personnel, 
     subject to the provisions of section 6304 of title 5, United 
     States Code, upon their transfer to the appropriation for 
     House office buildings.
       Sec. 307. (a) Civil Service Retirement System.--The first 
     sentence of section 8335(d) of title 5, United States Code, 
     is amended by striking ``55'' and inserting ``57''.
       (b) Federal Employees' Retirement System.--(1) Section 8425 
     of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
       (A) in the first sentence of subsection (b) by striking 
     ``member of the Capitol Police or'' and ``member or'';
       (B) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
       (C) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
       ``(c) A member of the Capitol Police who is otherwise 
     eligible for immediate retirement under section 8412(d) shall 
     be separated from the service on the last day of the month in 
     which such member becomes 57 years of age or completes 20 
     years of service if then over that age. The Capitol Police 
     Board, when in its judgment the public interest so requires, 
     may exempt such a member from automatic separation under this 
     subsection until that member becomes 60 years of age. The 
     Board shall notify the member in writing of the date of 
     separation at least 60 days before that date. Action to 
     separate the member is not effective, without the consent of 
     the member, until the last day of the month in which the 60-
     day notice expires.''.
       (2) Section 8415(d) of title 5, United States Code, is 
     amended by striking ``(a) or (b)'' and inserting ``(a), (b), 
     or (c)''.
       Sec. 308. (a) Purchase of American-Made Equipment and 
     Products.--It is the sense of the Congress that, to the 
     greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products 
     purchased with funds made available in this Act should be 
     American-made.
       (b) Notice to Grantees and Contractors.--In providing 
     financial assistance to, or entering into any contract with, 
     any entity using funds made available in this Act, the head 
     of each Federal agency, to the greatest extent practicable, 
     shall provide to such entity a notice describing the 
     statement made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
       Sec. 309. Section 316 of Public Law 101-302 is amended in 
     the first sentence of subsection (a) by striking ``1994'' and 
     inserting ``1995''.
       Sec. 310. Provided, That upon enactment of this Act, of the 
     funds appropriated to the Clerk of the House in the Fiscal 
     Year 1986 Urgent Supplemental Appropriations Act, Public Law 
     99-349, and subsequently transferred to the Architect of the 
     Capitol pursuant to the Legislative Branch Appropriations 
     Act, 1989, Public Law 100-458, for Capitol Complex Security 
     Enhancements, made available until expended, not to exceed 
     $2,015,000 may be obligated and disbursed for the purchase 
     and installation of x-ray machines and magnetometers.
       This Act may be cited as the ``Legislative Branch 
     Appropriations Act, 1995''.

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  H.R. 4454 is now before the Senate.


                         Privilege of the Floor

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the privilege 
of the floor be granted to Chuck Turner, who is detailed to the 
subcommittee from the Library of Congress during the consideration of 
this bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, H.R. 4454, the legislative branch 
appropriations bill for next year, 1995, contains a total of 
$2,363,796,100 in discretionary budget authority. This is a reduction 
from the estimates of $146 million. The bill is within the 
subcommittee's 602(b) allocation, according to the Congressional Budget 
Office scoring.
  The bill before the Senate is designed to consolidate the 
retrenchments in the staffing and operating levels of the legislative 
branch started in 1992. Overall, this bill represents a freeze of on-
board staffing and program activity at current levels, less the 
reductions that have been achieved pursuant to those mandated in last 
year's bill, including reductions in excess of those targets.
  The two provisions included in the fiscal year 1994 act required a 4-
percent reduction in full-time equivalent employment--FTE's as we refer 
to them--by the end of fiscal year 1995 and administrative cost 
reductions of 14 percent by fiscal year 1997.
  As a result of the fiscal constraints applied to the legislative 
branch since the beginning of fiscal year 1992, the legislative branch, 
as a whole, has already exceeded the FTE reduction requirement and will 
achieve the administrative cost reductions in the required timeframe. 
In some instances, agencies have more than doubled the FTE reduction 
target.
  The report accompanying the bill provides some of the detail for each 
agency in this regard. Here are some of the illustrations of what has 
happened in the legislative branch in the past 2\1/2\ years.
  The Library of Congress, Madam President, I have learned during my 
tenure as being chairman of this subcommittee, is not only a great 
library, but it is the finest library in the history of the world.
  You can go back through ancient times. You can read Durant's 
``History of Civilization,'' where he talks about great libraries. But 
never has there been a library like the Library of Congress. But the 
Library of Congress has had to recinch its belt. The Library in 1992 
was operating with 4,640 FTE's. The Library now has 4,245. The Library 
has lost almost 400 full-time employees. In fact, the Library now has 
573 fewer staff than it had in 1980, a 12 percent reduction from the 
level of 14 years ago.
  The Congressional Research Service--this is something that has been 
so important to the functioning of Congress and has become more 
important as constituent services become so relevant to what we do. But 
since fiscal year 1992, the Congressional Research Service full-time 
equivalent positions have declined from 799 to 754 positions, a 
reduction of 45 positions or almost 6 percent.
  The Government Printing Office. Since fiscal year 1992, GPO 
employment has been cut by over 400 full-time equivalent positions. At 
the end of fiscal year 1992, GPO had 4,830 positions authorized. They 
have had a reduction of 410, an 8.5 percent reduction.
  The General Accounting Office. The General Accounting Office is the 
watchdog of Congress. Madam President, when you were in the other body, 
you worked very hard. I have not known anyone in Congress who worked 
any harder to ferret out waste in the military. Much of the information 
that you worked with came from the General Accounting Office. The 
famous hammers that cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars; the toilet 
seats, I do not remember how much they cost but $600 or something like 
that, that information came from the General Accounting Office. They 
are the watchdog of Congress. They have saved the taxpayers of America 
billions and billions of dollars. But since fiscal year 1992, 
employment at GAO has been cut by over 630 full-time equivalent 
positions. At the beginning of fiscal year 1992, GAO had 5,342 
positions authorized. Their current authorization is 4,707, a reduction 
of 635 positions or almost a 12 percent reduction.
  So, Madam President, the Library of Congress, CRS, the General 
Accounting Office, and the Government Printing Office have over 1,400 
fewer full-time positions now than they had 2 years ago. We have had, 
Madam President, a reduction of over 1,400 full-time equivalent 
positions. It is important to understand that these are reductions in 
on-board staff. These are real live people we are talking about. These 
are not statistics. These are people who used to work in the 
legislative branch of Government who no longer work there. These are 
not vacant positions.
  A full-time equivalent, which is the measure of staffing levels we 
use, equals one person working 2,080 hours, which is 1 year's full-time 
employment. So these are real cuts affecting real people and real 
program capability.
  I have here the number of hours that we have cut from the legislative 
branch employment since 1992. Hours, 3,224,000 hours --each year. That 
is the reduction we have accomplished. So all the critics of the 
legislative branch both inside this body, the other body, and outside 
Congress should understand that we have done a job that we were called 
upon to do--3,224,000 hours are no longer here. The taxpayers are no 
longer paying the wages of these people. They are gone.
  Not surprisingly, this sharp contraction in staffing and resources 
has had its consequences. What we have done has not been without 
consequence. The Library of Congress has had to institute a number of 
measures to adapt to these constraints. I have had meetings with the 
Library of Congress, Dr. Billington and his staff, on numerous 
occasions, as has Senator Mack. They have been there pleading with us 
not to cut them anymore.
  To cite some of the things that have happened--well, let me cite the 
most obvious but by no means the most significant example. For the 
first time in the history of the Library of Congress of this country, 
is closed on Sundays. Now, this is significant. No matter what a 
person's religious belief, you do not complain much about coming to a 
library and reading books. We have scholars coming from all over the 
world to Washington not to sightsee but to study in the Library of 
Congress. They do not do it on Sunday anymore because we have had to 
close it. Scholars have to study some other place on Sundays.
  The Congressional Research Service, which is the arm of the Library 
that most directly serves congressional needs, has been unable to 
replace key people specializing in health care financing, crime, gun 
control, nuclear nonproliferation, and a number of other very important 
avenues. Needless to say, these are issues of no little consequence in 
today's political environment.
  The General Accounting Office has had to realign its headquarters and 
field offices and reduce the volume of new work taken at the request of 
Congress. In effect, they have had to turn down Members of Congress, 
committee chairmen, subcommittee chairmen, saying we cannot do it. It 
has maintained a hiring freeze for over 3 years. As a result, the 
General Accounting Office has been unable to fill vacancies in areas 
where specialized skills are needed. It has also had to lengthen the 
time required to report to Congress on key legislative issues. When 
they take something from us now, they say be patient; we cannot get the 
work done as quickly as you want. The reason that is important is I 
believe the reason the General Accounting Office was established 
especially in its present format was to save taxpayers' money.
  Well, the longer you put off giving us information, the longer it 
takes us to remedy a problem. And the General Accounting Office has 
found lots of problems.
  Let us talk a little bit, Madam President, about the funding history. 
In fiscal year 1992, the legislative branch as a whole was funded at 
$2.306 billion. In 1993, total appropriations for the legislative 
branch were $2.275 billion. And in fiscal year 1994, the enacted total 
for the legislative branch was again lower, at $2.269 billion. It 
should also be noted that in addition to these reductions, $31 million 
has been rescinded from the accounts of the legislative branch during 
this period.
  Now, Madam President, these are nominal dollars. I am not talking 
about inflation adjusted dollars. In constant dollars, the real 
reduction is approximately $330 million, which is over 12 percent.
  I think this is the time for me to talk about the ranking member of 
this subcommittee for a little bit. This is the 6th year that I have 
handled this bill. But I can truthfully say that the hearings we held 
this year were detailed. We went into complex areas we had never before 
gone into. Frankly, as busy as I am, and most everybody is around here, 
it was only because of the tenacity and the persistence of Senator Mack 
that we had these extremely thorough hearings.
  The reason I mention it here is the Director of the Congressional 
Budget Office, Dr. Reischauer, spent a considerable amount of time with 
us talking about how budgeting takes place and why, when he does his 
reporting to us, he makes a distinction between nominal and constant 
dollars.
  In short--and I will talk more later--the Congress has gotten its 
lunch bucket full of hearings on this matter. We have spent a lot of 
time and this bill has been gone over by the staff, by Senator Mack's 
staff, by my staff, the appropriations staff, and Senator Mack and I in 
great detail. I am very proud of this bill. It is one that I think the 
entire Congress should be able to understand. There is no hidden 
agenda. There is nothing other than what you see right here. It is all 
beef.
  (Mr. CAMPBELL assumed the chair.)
  Mr. REID. There are Members of this body who have said that the 
legislative branch should lead the way in reducing the Federal deficit. 
Well, that is all well and good and makes a good press release. But the 
fact is we do lead because with a little over $2 billion in total 
funding for this branch of Government, other people are going to have 
to follow the lead that we have done, because we are talking about a 
budget that is near a trillion dollars. We have done our share. I think 
it sets a pattern for what others should do. In an era of trillion-
dollar budgets and multi-billion-dollar deficits, $2 billion, the 
entire budget for the legislative branch, hardly shows up on the radar 
screen. But when it is picked up on the radar screen, we want to be 
able to hold our head high and indicate what we have done our part. And 
we can do that.
  This committee, I repeat, has led with what it has had to work with. 
The numbers in this bill show categorically that the legislative branch 
had indeed led the way. They reveal absolute undeniable, real 
reductions to programs, staffing, and administrative support services. 
They reveal that services have been curtailed and growth in virtually 
all legislative branch entities have been reversed.
  Mr. President, we are leading the way. We are not just preaching 
fiscal constraint. We are practicing fiscal constraint. At the same 
time some in the media, and some professional critics of this 
institution, people that make a living criticizing Congress, should 
recognize the fact that we have done our share. We have more to do. But 
to this point, we have done our share.
  Let us talk about the Senate. In the aggregate the amount recommended 
for the Senate for fiscal year 1995 is $438,580,500. This is $5,784,200 
less than provided in the current fiscal year. It is a decrease of $54 
million from the amount requested. This includes a rescission of $23 
million in prior year unobligated balances. This is the fourth year in 
a row that the Senate has been held either to a freeze or to less than 
a freeze in normal dollars.
  In constant dollars, the Senate is more than 12 percent below fiscal 
year 1992. Some significant effect for these reductions are in the 
staffing of the Senate, standing committees, select and special 
committees, in the Office of the Sergeant at Arms; and, in the volume 
and costs of mass mail under the frank. The staff of the Senate 
committees is down over 10 percent.
  In addition, the Sergeant at Arms staff is equivalent to a 40 full-
time equivalent reduction. This is significant in a small office like 
they have. This is the third year in a row that the total funding for 
the Office of Sergeant at Arms has either declined or remained 
constant. This is a significant accomplishment because, as my 
colleagues know, the Sergeant at Arms is the logistical backbone of the 
Senate.
  I want to take a minute here and spread across this Record the 
outstanding work that Martha Pope, who was the Sergeant at Arms until 
just a few months ago, has done. I have worked with her, and I am so 
impressed with the work she has done. When cutting was needed, she was 
the first to come forward with innovative ways as to how her staff and 
her budget could be cut. She led the way.
  Her membership on the police board has made I think remarkable 
changes in the way the police department operates. She has stood up 
under the most difficult circumstances when there were problems within 
the police department for a lot of reasons. She would not back down. 
She held up for what was principle. And, as a result of that, the 
police department, the Capitol Police force, is a better police 
department.
  Based upon my experience with Martha Pope as Sergeant at Arms, and 
the new Secretary of the Senate, I think the Secretary of the Senate--
recognizing there were some large shoes to fill of Joe Stewart--I think 
she can fill them. As good as Joe Stewart was, we all recognize that, I 
believe Martha Pope can full the shoes of Joe Stewart.
  Let us talk about administrative provisions in this legislation. As 
is customary, the committee has found it necessary to include several 
provisions altering the administration of certain Senate or joint item 
accounts, and for changing the statutory basis for certain legislative 
branch operations.
  Mr. President, listen to this. Section 7 of the bill cancels the 
availability of $65 million in funds appropriated in earlier years for 
Senate activities. The unspent money remains due to the conscientious 
efforts of Senate leaders, officers and Members to contain costs. 
Effective with the enactment of this act, these funds will revert to 
the general fund of the U.S. Treasury.
  Mr. President, a commitment was made on this floor last year by 
Senator Mack, and Senator Reid, that is we would work with Senator 
Brown. It seems that only yesterday he was standing back there wanting 
more information, and had amendments that he wanted to offer. We had a 
quorum call. We went and talked to him, and, said, ``Look. We also need 
to know more about this. We will hold some hearings, and we will get to 
the bottom of this.'' As a result of that, and especially at the urging 
of the Senator Mack, we are returning to the Treasury of the United 
States $65 million. When this bill passes, the taxpayers of this 
country will have $65 million they would not ordinarily have.
  Senator Mack and I, as long as we are Members of this body, are going 
to continue to do what we can to make sure that those funds do not 
build up in the future.
  The reason for that is we believe in truth in budgeting, and truth in 
reporting in budgeting, not that there has not been that in the past. 
No one has misled or done anything wrong. But this is the process of 
getting better at what we do. As a result of that, there will be $65 
million that will be returned.
  Mass mailings:
  The committee bill includes language banning unsolicited mass 
mailings with certain limited exceptions. This provision was developed 
by Senator Mack, our ranking member.
  We have been able to work something out with Senator Stevens, and 
this Senator who is managing the bill. And we have been able to take 
care of problems that some Senators have with mass mailings. But 
basically, as I have indicated, unsolicited mass mailings are basically 
finished in this body with certain exceptions.
  Visitor education information:
  One of the things that has concerned me, and it has become more 
glaring the longer I have been here, is when people come--there are 
people here in the galleries now. If, in fact, it were during the 
daytime and they were part of the tours coming from Colorado, from 
Florida, from Nevada, they would be ushered in here and given a seat, 
and that was it. If they are lucky enough, they can get a tour of the 
Capitol, and they will be told about some pictures, and that you can 
whisper someplace and hear it on the other part of the room. I think 
that is historically unique and important.
  But one of the things we want to do is have a richer experience for 
people that come to this Capitol. This is the people's body, the 
Congress of the United States. We think that when people come here they 
should have an experience like when they go to one of the art museums, 
and they walk in and, if they want have a little recording to tell them 
the history of this building, perhaps how a bill becomes law, and have 
more indication of what we are doing down here as they sit up there.
  So anyway, we are going to do that. Section 2 directs the Secretary 
of the Senate, Martha Pope, drawing upon the resources of other Senate 
officers, support agencies, including the Smithsonian Institution, the 
National Archives, to submit a report to the Senate Rules and 
Administration Committee by the end of next year people coming here can 
have a better experience.
  Something else that Senator Mack has stood for, and I stand with him 
shoulder to shoulder--and this could be based upon his experience and 
my experience in the House of Representatives--but section 3 of this 
bill includes a direction to the Secretary of the Senate to include a 
summary statement in the semiannual report of the Secretary of the 
Senate disclosing the funds available to each Senator, each committee, 
and each Senate officer, along with the total expenditures by each and 
the balances remaining for each.
  This provision, as I have indicated, was initiated by Senator Mack. 
It assumes that Senators and officers who spend their money operating 
judiciously will get credit for this frugality.
  In effect, there will be able to be a report prepared every 6 months, 
and the people can find out how their Senator or Senate office is 
spending the money.
  Capitol Police Force. Mr. President, one of the House committees has 
passed a bill giving the executive branch a four-tenths of 1 percent 
increase over what has been recommended to us by the President. In 
addition to that, there is a 1.1 percent locality pay increase. We have 
that in this bill. If in fact this is carried through by the respective 
Appropriations Committees in the House and Senate and is signed into 
law, there will be enough money to make that comparable for the 
legislative branch of Government. If that does not happen and the 
President's recommendations fall, our amount will also fall. That is in 
this bill.
  The only place that is not the case is with the Capitol Police Force. 
The Capitol Police Force will receive their locality pay. They perform 
vital law enforcement functions for the Capitol complex and the 
neighborhood surrounding the Capitol. The fiscal security of the 
complex is critical to the visitors and employees alike. The 
professionalism and dedication of the Capitol Police Force is a matter 
of great pride. Personally, I was a Capitol policeman during part of 
the time I was going to law school. I worked in this building on the 
night shift as a Capitol policeman. So I have a special place in my 
heart for the Capitol Police. When I was a Capitol policeman, quite 
frankly, the most dangerous thing I did was direct traffic. That is not 
the way it is now. But I have great respect for the men and women who 
make up this Capitol Police Force. It is, if not the best, one of the 
four or five best-trained police forces in the world. And we need to 
make their pay comparable to law enforcement agents around the country. 
They are so well trained that people are stealing them and taking them 
to cities around the country.
  So the locality pay will be with the Capitol Police so they are 
comparable to other Federal law enforcement agencies.
  Office of Technology Assessment. The committee recommended 
$21,970,000 for OTA. This is 11.8 percent below the 1992 level in real 
terms.
  The central mission of the Office of Technology Assessment is to 
analyze for the Congress the impact on public policy of crucial 
scientific and technical developments. Its studies over the years on 
computer technology, energy efficiency and conservation, and acid rain, 
to name a few, have given the Congress crucial information necessary 
for informed policy choices in highly complex subject areas.
  There have been efforts made during the time I have been involved in 
this legislative branch bill to do away with the Office of Technology 
and Assessment. But, Mr. President, if there ever was a bipartisan 
agency, this is it. I have Senator Stevens, Senator Kennedy, and 
Senator Hatch, who come in and tell us what OTA has done during the 
year and what they are going to do in the future. It is one of the 
smallest but one of the most popular agencies within the legislative 
branch.
  Congressional Budget Office. The committee recommends an 
appropriation of $21,970,000 for the Congressional Budget Office. This 
is a decrease of $60,000 below the request and is 10 percent below the 
1992 enacted level.
  CBO is a key analytical agent of the Congress in budget-related 
matters. It makes available to the Congress an independent and highly 
respected, nonpartisan source of economic and budgetary analysis. The 
organization of the Budget Office is as set forth in this chart. Dr. 
Reischauer is respected worldwide and certainly in this country. I 
indicated that the CBO--when I started talking about a nonpartisan 
source, I think we can all stop and reflect a minute about one of the 
important debates we had regarding a certain part of health care. The 
decision was directed to the Congressional Budget Office as to whether 
part of the Clinton health care plan was a tax, and he said, ``Yes.'' 
If this had been partisan, he would have said no, because that is what 
some of we Democrats were hoping he would say. But he did not. That is 
why he has so much respect and why the Congressional Budget Office has 
developed so much respect over the years.
  CBO is a key analytical agent of Congress. CBO is essential to the 
work of the House and Senate Budget Committees, to the tax-writing 
committees, and to this committee and its House counterpart. There is 
literally no policy area in which Congress works that has not benefited 
from analyses prepared by the CBO.
  The Architect of the Capitol. The bill includes $162,920,000 to 
support the operations of the Architect of the Capitol, including the 
Botanic Garden. In constant dollars, this is over 13 percent less than 
the 1992 level.
  The committee has provided $7 million for beginning the renovation of 
the Botanic Garden Conservatory by transferring unobligated funds 
available to the Architect of the Capitol. Why do we want to renovate 
the Conservatory? Well, this treasure that we have, the Botanic Garden, 
has had for several years a roof that--well, there is no roof. It was 
condemned, and they had to take it down. This beautiful facility is 
only partially used because it has no roof and is basically inoperable. 
So we hope over the next few years to replace that roof. This is a step 
in the right direction. The total cost, as we know it at this time, is 
about $28 million. This is a downpayment on restoring a national 
treasure, the Botanic Garden. That is part of the responsibility, 
jurisdiction, and concern of the Architect of the Capitol.
  The architect is the officer responsible for the preservation and 
maintenance of the architectural heritage embodied in the Capitol 
complex. The Capitol building, the House and Senate office buildings, 
and the Library of Congress buildings are not only unique expressions 
of architectural design, they are also living buildings, performing the 
work today that they were designed to do more than two centuries ago, 
in some instances. They must be consistently maintained so that we in 
the legislative branch can perform our work and also preserve this 
aesthetic dimension that certainly speaks well of our Nation's Capital.
  I talked a little earlier about the Library of Congress, and a lot of 
times we think the Library of Congress is this building stuck here in 
Washington with a lot of books in it. The Library of Congress is so 
important to individual States because of the work that they do. The 
Library, apart from the Congressional Research Service that I have 
already talked to, requested $272,259,000. The committee recommends an 
appropriation of $263,116,000 for the Library of Congress, excluding 
the Congressional Research Service. This is a decrease of almost $10 
million below the request, and is a 12.1 percent decrease in nominal 
dollars under the 1992 level.
  The Library of Congress, like other components of this bill, has 
endured several years of sharply constrained funding, which has 
resulted in a staff reduction of almost 10 percent. Its hours of public 
service have been reduced so that the Library is not only closed on 
Sundays but also Tuesday nights. Although this is an inconvenience to 
some users, these economies were essential if the core functions and 
collections of the Library were to be maintained and permitted to grow.
  In my short time here in the Senate, I have come to respect a lot of 
people, but no one, Mr. President, have I gained more respect and 
admiration for than I have the senior Senator from the State of Oregon, 
Senator Hatfield. I mention his name in the same breath I talk about 
the Library of Congress because he loves the Library of Congress.
  It was through him and his missionary efforts in my early days on the 
Appropriations Committee that I became converted to a disciple of the 
Library of Congress. It is a wonderful institution, as so outlined by 
Senator Mark Hatfield.
  We rarely have a meeting that we talk about the Library of Congress 
that Senator Hatfield is not there. A couple years ago Senator Hatfield 
called me to a meeting with the Librarian of Congress and some others 
because he was concerned about the stacks of materials the Library was 
unable to process. Some of them in fact were mildewing and decaying and 
rotting because they could not process them. We did not have the 
ability to do that.
  We have made provisions, because of Senator Hatfield and we have 
joined with him, to reduce that backlog.
  So, Senator Hatfield performs I am sure many good things for the 
State of Oregon, but for the people of this country his ability to talk 
about and do good things for the Library of Congress to me is 
overwhelming.
  The Library of Congress performs dual functions as both Congress' 
Library, our Library, and the Nation's Library. We know that the 
original collections were Jefferson's. He gave his books to the Library 
of Congress after they were burned in the War of 1812. But it is more 
than the Library of Congress. It is also the Library of the people of 
this country.
  The Congressional Research Service, funded in title I of this bill, 
provides to Senators, Representatives, committees, and officers of the 
Congress an enormous array of reference, research, and analytical 
services.
  The Library of Congress is also an unsurpassed national and 
international treasure. Its a collection of more than 100 million items 
encompasses the full range of human artistic and intellectual 
expression, including books, manuscripts, music, film, recordings, 
maps, prints, and photographs.
  The Library is also a major commercial center. As the American 
copyright depository and registration office, it assumes a major role 
in the protection of intellectual property rights through U.S. 
copyright laws and international copyright conventions.
  Without the Library of Congress, other libraries in the United States 
would find it much more difficult to maintain the service they provide 
to their communities.
  I have here a map, Mr. President, that shows the services to the 
Nation. It does not matter where you pick. Look at Florida, lots of 
places in Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, California, the sparsely 
populated States of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, all through. There are 
different services that the people of our States depend on the Library.
  It is estimated that if the Library of Congress did not function in 
this manner it would cost the States in excess of $300 million annually 
in costs that local public libraries certainly could not afford.
  For the National Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, 
one thing Senator Mack and I are very proud of is we have increased the 
funding over the other body level for services to the blind of about 
$350,000. We have done this because we have been impressed with what 
this Library does for the sightless. It provides books. It provides 
machines. We need to maintain, I know, that degree of competence we 
have had.
  The Library of Congress' National Service for the Blind and 
Physically Handicapped provides more than 22 million talking books to 
more than three quarters of a million readers every year. Its inter-
library loan program is of substantial value to college and university 
libraries throughout the country. In an era of reduced library 
expenditures by college administrators, the help of the Library of 
Congress becomes even more important. We have had people who have come 
to us and said it is their only means of being able to communicate.
  The General Accounting Office has had to cut and close offices, and 
we have talked about that.
  In conclusion, I want to again spread across this Record my 
commendation for Senator Mack. I have been very candid and open in this 
regard. There have been a time or two when Senator Mack has really 
gotten on my nerves. He has, you know. He wants to know where every 
``i'' is dotted and every ``t'' is crossed. I do not know what his 
background is, but he should have been an accountant because he is 
really interested in numbers, and it has been a real learning process 
for me to work with him and his staff.
  So, even though early on in this process, I wish he had not been as 
diligent, for lack of a better word, I have come to have as much 
respect for him as I have anybody I ever worked a bill with. He has 
been diligent, as I indicated earlier on in my proceedings, and he 
knows what he thinks is right. He sets out to prove that point.
  But I have to be very honest with you. He has a great quality about 
him, because you can show him that the facts are not as he originally 
thought. As a result of his having an open mind, we have been able to 
agree on certain things where there was original disagreement. I have 
had to change my view on a number of things that he thought were 
important that I originally did not.
  So, I guess what I am telling the Members of this body is we have 
developed, I believe, a mutual admiration society.
  I commend him for the attention he paid to the administrative 
provisions concerning the prohibition of unsolicited mass mailings and 
the new format for funding and expenditures disclosure.
  I quite frankly felt when Senator Mack wanted to get interested in 
this franking thing I knew about all that, what could he show me. He 
was relatively new, and I have been through Senator Nickles and Senator 
Gorton, and I fought with the House for all these years, and I thought 
we had done just about all we can do. Well, we have done a lot more as 
a result of his ability to understand numbers, and I publicly 
congratulate and applaud Senator Mack for his work in this area.
  The content of this bill is the better, much better, for his work and 
insight. The tradition of bipartisan cooperation on the work of this 
bill has resulted in a responsible and balanced approach to the tough 
choices presented.
  I want to, in closing, say this: If there are those in this body who 
think we could do more, give us a chance. I had here a chart that my 
staff has taken that showed over 3 million hours of pay that has been 
saved for the taxpayers. This year we are trying to consolidate some of 
the cuts we have made in the last several years. Give us the 
opportunity to do more.
  We have made a commitment--it is in the law--that we are going to cut 
4 percent of the employees. We are going to make 14 percent reductions 
in administrative costs. We are going to do at least that and maybe we 
will do more.
  I am very proud of this bill. I think it is a tough bill. We have 
made tough choices. I think we have set a good example for those who 
are concerned about spending.
  I also thank Senator Byrd of the full committee and the staff for the 
help in bringing this measure to this point in the process. Having 
Senator Byrd's advice and counsel on occasions when I called upon it of 
course has been very important, and no one understands this institution 
better nor exemplifies its best qualities more fully than Senator Byrd. 
So it is an honor to serve as one of his subcommittee chairmen under 
his full committee.
  I yield the floor, Mr. President.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who yields time?
  The Senator from Florida [Mr. Mack] is recognized.
  Mr. MACK. Thank you, Mr. President.
  Let me just pick up on the point Senator Reid made with respect to 
working together. This truly is a bipartisan effort. I certainly 
learned a great deal during this past year as I did the year before 
that, and again I commend Senator Reid for his openness and his 
willingness to work. So I think we offer the Senate this evening a 
truly bipartisan bill.
  Chairman Reid and I have hammered out a bill that makes significant 
changes and improvements in the funding and operation of the Senate and 
the legislative branch. I believe this legislation is responsive to the 
American taxpayer, Members of the Senate, and to the Senate as an 
institution. Our goal from beginning to end has been responsible and 
realistic budgeting. I believe we have gone a long way towards reaching 
this goal.
  As Senator Reid has already detailed the bill, I will only emphasize 
a few points.
  First, the Senate funding: This is the fourth year in a row now that 
we have held funding at or below the previous year's levels in real 
dollars. The 1995 appropriations for the Senate itself is $5.7 million 
below 1994. Let me repeat: Below 1994. And the bill is $54 million 
below the request.
  Mr. President, one of the many criticisms made about the Federal 
Government and Congress, in particular, is the size and growth not only 
in spending but also in the size of staffs. In response, the committee 
has worked with each support agency in taking a critical look at 
staffing levels and workloads. The approach was to maintain necessary 
service levels while finding savings and increasing efficiencies which 
have resulted in lower staffing levels.
  Pursuant to last year' bill, the legislative branch support agencies 
have already or are well on their way to accomplishing their reductions 
in full time equivalents, or FTE'S. The 1994 act mandated a 4 percent 
deduction in FTE's by the end of 1995. That has substantially been 
achieved.
  The Government Accounting Office is down 630 full time equivalents 
from 1992, 12 percent, and I might just add that that means that 
actually their staff level is below what it was 25 years ago. So we 
have made accomplishment. We have achieved I think some worthwhile 
goals.
  The Library of Congress is now down nearly 400, about 8.5 percent; 
the Government Printing Office, over 400; and the Office of Technology 
Assessment is down 12 percent.
  All totaled, the legislative branch of Government has reduced its 
staffing level by nearly 2,400 full-time staff members from 1992 
levels.
  I might add, Mr. President, that during the past year, I have taken 
the time to visit with staff and tour the facilities of several support 
agencies of Congress and departments of the Senate. I wish that each 
Member could take the time to do the same, because I have been 
impressed with the professionalism and the dedication of these staff 
members and the service they provide Congress and the people of our 
country.
  And just a word or two again about some of our hearings and some of 
our meetings during this past year.
  I had the opportunity to spend some time with the former Sergeant at 
Arms and now Secretary of the Senate, Martha Pope. I must tell you that 
after we reviewed what has taken place and the changes in the 
management approach and the people that are on board, the financial 
accounting system that is in place, I must tell you, I am much more 
confident about how this place operates with the system that is in 
place to keep track of the dollars that we spend.
  So I think Martha Pope is to be commended for what she did when she 
stepped in as Sergeant at Arms, and I am sure she will continue to do 
an excellent job as the Secretary of the Senate.
  In addition to that, again, I spent time with the new Sergeant at 
Arms, Larry Benoit. I am confident he will continue the work that was 
begun by Martha Pope.
  I look forward to working with both of them, as well as the others 
that I met as I went through the different support agencies and the 
different staffing operations for the U.S. Senate.
  Mr. President, on another matter, during last year's debate--and 
Senator Reid has already referred to this--our distinguished colleague, 
Senator Hank Brown, brought the issue of unobligated balances to the 
attention of the committee. I am happy to report to the Senate that we 
have successfully resolved that issue. This legislation, in effect, 
returns $65 million of previous years unobligated balances to the 
Treasury. I thank Senator Brown for pursuing the issue, and I thank 
Chairman Reid for his help in resolving it.
  Mr. President, Chairman Reid has repeatedly stated that his intention 
is to make this bill an open book; that Members of the Senate and the 
American people can see how taxpayer dollars are being spent on the 
legislative branch. This year we have included provisions to make the 
information presented in the Secretary of the Senate's report more 
understandable and more useful to the Senate and the general public. I 
believe that these reporting requirements are an important reform.
  And, finally, Mr. President, we have agreed to a sound proposal on 
provisions that will reduce Senate mail costs. These provisions 
fundamentally eliminate the use of the frank for unsolicited statewide 
mass mail newsletters.
  Last year, I offered a similar amendment which lost by one single 
vote. As I stated on the floor during that debate, none of us need to 
be reminded of the fiscal situation the Nation faces. The Senate must 
show leadership in prioritizing spending, especially when it comes to 
the legislative branch. Unsolicited mass mailings cannot be described 
as a high priority item. Quite simply, mass mailings are a luxury 
neither this body nor the American taxpayer can afford.
  Mr. President, I again want to thank all of the committee members who 
have worked on this bill, but especially, I want to extend my thanks 
and appreciation to Chairman Reid. He has been exceedingly helpful and 
cooperative every step of the way. With his leadership, we have 
sharpened our focus on legislative spending, and we plan to continue 
that effort. But we must also remember our institutional 
responsibilities and our capacity to serve our constituents. This bill 
does a good job at striking that difficult balance. I yield the floor.
  Mr. SASSER. Mr. President, the Senate Budget Committee has examined 
H.R. 4454, the legislative branch appropriations bill and has found 
that the bill is under its 602(B) budget authority allocation by $53 
million and under its 602(B) outlay allocation by $7 million.
  I compliment the distinguished manager of the bill, Senator Reid, and 
the distinguished ranking member of the legislative branch 
subcommittee, Senator Mack, on all of their hard work.
  Mr. President, I have a table prepared by the Budget Committee which 
shows the official scoring of the legislative branch appropriations 
bill and I ask unanimous consent that it be inserted in the Record at 
the appropriate point.
  There being no objection, the table was ordered to be printed in the 
Record, as follows:

     SENATE BUDGET COMMITTEE SCORING OF H.R. 4454--FISCAL YEAR 1995
         LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS--SENATE-REPORTED BILL
                        [In millions of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 Bill summary                        BA        Outlays
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Discretionary totals:
  New spending in bill........................        2,370        2,172
  Outlays from prior years appropriations.....  ...........          206
  Permanent/advance appropriations............            0            0
  Supplementals...............................            0         -(*)
                                               -------------------------
      Subtotal, discretionary spending........        2,370        2,377
Mandatory totals..............................           92           92
                                               =========================
Bill total....................................        2,462        2,469
Senate 602(b) allocation......................        2,515        2,476
      Difference..............................          -53           -7
Discretionary totals above (+) or below (-):
  President's request.........................         -140          -79
  House-passed bill...........................          -29           16
  Senate-reported bill........................  ...........  ...........
  Senate-passed bill..........................  ...........  ...........
Defense.......................................            0            0
International Affairs.........................            0            0
Domestic Discretionary........................        2,370        2,377
------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Mr. REID addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada [Mr. Reid].
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the committee 
amendments be considered and agreed to en bloc, provided no points of 
order under rule XVI be waived thereon, and that the measure, as 
amended, be considered as original text for the purpose of further 
amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Who seeks recognition?


                           motion to recommit

  Mr. SMITH. Mr. President, I send a motion to the desk and ask for its 
immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. Smith] moves to 
     recommit the bill, H.R. 4454, to the Committee on 
     Appropriations with instructions to report the bill back to 
     the Senate, within 3 days (not counting any day on which the 
     Senate is not in session), with an amendment reducing the 
     total appropriation provided therein to a sum not greater 
     than its fiscal year 1994 level.

  Mr. SMITH. Mr. President, I have paid very careful attention to the 
debate here from my colleagues. I respect the fact that the Senate, I 
believe, in its portion of this appropriation, has done a reasonably 
good job in terms of fiscal restraint.
  But the bill before us is much broader than that. It encompasses 
other areas, including the Library of Congress, the Capitol Police, and 
other areas.
  All we have to do, Mr. President, with all due respect to my 
colleagues, is look at the cover. We do not even have to read the 
document. The cover says the amount of the bill as reported to the 
Senate is $2,363,796,100. The legislative branch appropriations for 
1994 was $2,270,713,300. The difference is $93 million, Mr. President. 
There is $93 million-plus more being spent in this legislative branch 
appropriations bill this year than last year. That is the bottom line.
  You can couch the numbers; you can play with the numbers; you can 
massage the numbers; you can present them in a number of different 
ways. But the bottom line is we are spending $93 million more than we 
did last year. That is the part that concerns me.
  We hear all this talk about balancing the budget and fiscal restraint 
and being fiscally responsible, and all of that. But every time an 
appropriations bill, it seems as if almost every time --not every time, 
many times, most of the time--an appropriations bill comes to the floor 
of the US Senate, it has more money in it than it had last year. Yet, 
we hear all this talk about how we are saving money and cutting the 
budget.
  If that is true, why is the debt going up higher every year?
  On March 1, the Senate decided that other issues were more important 
than the national debt. On March 1, this year, that was the day the 
Senate voted to kill the balanced budget amendment. It was a close 
vote, but that was the vote. We killed the balanced budget amendment.
  Since that time, the words ``deficit reduction'' have scarcely been 
uttered in this Chamber. It is as if it just passed off the face of the 
Earth and we said, ``We have done our part now. We do not want a 
balanced budget amendment. So if we do not talk about deficit 
reduction, we will not have to deal with it. OK. We had the debate. It 
is over. We expressed our concern. Let's us move on to more important 
things now.''
  Well, I do not want to move on to more important things, because I do 
not think there are more important things to move on to.
  I have looked at the Senate calendar. There is not one order, not 
one, that I consider to be of greater consequence to the people of this 
country than reducing this deficit, balancing this budget, and 
beginning to buy down this debt before it bankrupts our children.
  This is a very small portion of that debt and the deficit that I am 
talking about tonight, $93 million. That is a lot of money where I grew 
up; probably a lot of money where most of the people that are watching 
tonight grew up; a lot of money, $93 million.
  But, if we do not start somewhere, we do not start anywhere. That is 
the bottom line.
  In fact, health care reform, welfare reform, and other big ticket 
items would only serve to increase Federal spending, as would the bill 
before this body today. It is time to ask ourselves what are we doing? 
Why are we doing this to ourselves? Why are we doing this to our 
children? Why are we doing this?
  I get so tired of hearing all of the excuses and all the rhetoric and 
all the explanations as to how all these bills that come down on the 
floor of the U.S. Senate are fiscally responsible. If they are fiscally 
responsible, why do we add to the national debt every year? It is not 
the issue of the relatively good job that my colleagues have done in 
the Senate portion of this bill. They have done a good job. But the 
entire bill is $93 million more than it was last year. The Federal 
Government has been on a 25-year spending spree. There is no end in 
sight.
  I said on the floor last year, it is like the ``Energizer Bunny,'' it 
just keeps going and going and going. Unfortunately, the battery does 
not wear out in this place, it just keeps going.
  Our national debt, in case anybody cares on this floor--most do not, 
apparently--is $4.5 trillion. That is with a ``T,'' not with a ``B,'' 
and not with an ``M''--$4.5 trillion and growing. The Federal 
Government could cancel every spending program in existence --
agriculture, weapons, Social Security, all of them; cancel them all and 
the remaining thousands we could cancel each and every one and apply 
every single tax dollar to the national debt for the next 3 years and 
we would still be short of paying off the national credit card. Think 
of that. We would still be short of paying off the national credit 
card.
  We come to the floor and ask for a $93 million reduction in the 
legislative branch appropriations and it is as if we are asking 
somebody to jump off a cliff 10,000 feet high. ``We cannot do that. We 
are fiscally responsible. There is nothing wrong with this bill. It is 
OK. We have cut all this money.''
  We have cut all this money but it is still $93 million more than last 
year. The OMB estimates the Federal Government will spend more than 
$1.5 trillion in the upcoming fiscal year, but every time you hear the 
budget--listen. Wait until the next appropriation bill comes down. You 
will hear it. ``This is a great bill. We are fiscally responsible. We 
are watching the numbers carefully.'' It will be more than it was last 
year in most of them if not all of them. The breakdown is not very 
complicated. Mandatory entitlement spending will consume $774 billion. 
That is mandatory entitlement spending. We cannot touch it unless we 
change the law. There is no discretion; $774 billion mandated.
  Interest on the debt, an item pretty difficult to reduce when you 
keep increasing spending. It is pretty tough to reduce the interest 
when you keep spending more. That will total $213 billion in fiscal 
year 1995--$213 billion interest on the debt in this country. Think of 
what you could do with that for the environment, for health care, for 
the homeless, for some weapons program. You pick what you like. We are 
not going to have it. We are going to give it for interest on the debt 
and that is going up. That is going up.
  Defense spending will be about $292 billion.
  We will spend about $21 billion on international affairs.
  And last but by no means least, we will spend $250 billion in the 
domestic discretionary category.
  Total spending, about $1.5 trillion. Total revenue, about $1.3 
trillion. Total deficit, about $170 billion.
  Try doing that in your households. Try increasing your mortgage 
payments every month and get less in income every month and see how 
long you can go before somebody calls you up and says, ``Enough is 
enough. You are cut off.''
  Not here. Not in this place. We just keep spending, just like the 
bunny, keep going and going and going. And on top of that, to make it 
worse, we hear about how fiscally responsible we are, on the floor of 
the Senate. We hear it every time. We have another good bill here, 
fiscally responsible. Everything is OK; $93 million, just a lousy 
little 93 million bucks in this bill, no big deal. All I am asking is 
about 3.5 percent of the overall budget, but we cannot cut it.
  Do you know what it means? Do you know what the recipe is here? Total 
disaster for the future generations of Americans.
  I used to teach history and I am a very strong believer that history 
will judge. And they are the only ones who will judge. We cannot judge 
ourselves. We cannot judge each other. But history will judge us and 
they are not going to judge this generation of politicians very kindly 
for what they did to this country, I assure you. I want to be on record 
saying it is wrong.
  If we cannot start with $93 million in a $2.5 billion legislative 
appropriations bill, which is money we have direct control over, where 
can we start? Where do we start? Find the other guy, find the other 
account? Why not start right here? No, it will hardly make a dent. It 
is true. It will not make a dent. It is not even half of the interest 
we will be paying--half? That is not even a tenth, not even 1 percent 
of the interest we will be paying. But we cannot make a start.
  There is no silver bullet solution to this problem. We have to act. 
We are not willing to do that. We are never willing to do that. 
Meanwhile the debt gets bigger, the deficits--yes, they have gone down 
a little bit but every time you have a deficit, you add to the debt.
  We need to cut our office accounts. We need to cut funding in the 
executive branch. We need to attack the mandatory spending programs. We 
need to limit discretionary spending, domestic, international and 
defense--which we have been doing in defense. And we need to look at 
entitlements. But are we willing to do it? No.
  I have been in meetings for 4 years in this place and everybody is 
looking for an excuse not to deal with it. How can we deal with it 
without cutting this entitlement or that entitlement? We cannot cut 
this spending, everybody will be on our backs screaming. Imagine how 
many people will be on your backs when America goes bankrupt and cannot 
pay the debts?
  The message is simple. It is very simple. On these appropriations 
bills as they come up, one by one, let us not spend more than we did 
the last time around. What is complicated about that? Why do we make it 
so complicated? Spend less than you did last time. Did you ever sit 
down with your checkbook at the end of the month and say to yourself, 
``I am a little short. I have to spend less next month.'' And you do 
it. Not here.
  The bill before the Senate today will appropriate $93.1 million more 
than in 1994 levels. You can play with that and say we cut it here in 
the Senate and all that, and that is fine. I already applauded that. 
But it still is $93 million more than last year. And let me tell you 
what is worse. That is not money that came in here from the taxpayers 
with a balanced budget and no debt. That is $93 million of borrowed 
money--borrowed money we are spending. Borrowed money, 7 percent 
interest at current rates--roughly 7 percent. Americans will spend $6.5 
million in interest costs alone on the $93 million we will spend 
tonight when we vote for this bill. So it will cost the American people 
$6.5 million in interest alone because we borrowed the $93 million that 
we are going to spend tonight.
  Does anybody care? No. If they did, there would be more people on the 
floor of the Senate. They do not care. That is the bottom line. We can 
do better than that. Our children deserve better than that. And as I 
stated earlier, it does not make a difference to this Senator if it is 
agriculture, defense, foreign affairs, it does not matter if the 
President requested more spending or if the budget resolution allowed 
for more money. That is not the point. Enough is enough.
  We are spending more than we spent last year in this account. Period. 
That is the issue. I do not care what the President requested. It does 
not matter what he requested. It is what we are spending. I think we 
can make do with the same as we did last year. Why not? Why can we not? 
Because we do not want to; because we do not have to; because we are 
not held accountable. That is why we do not.
  If you want to look at other areas, I am more than happy to sit down 
and look at other areas including entitlements, and I have been out in 
my State saying it, saying that it is better to cut some entitlements 
or at least freeze some entitlements now rather than lose them for our 
children in future years. Let us put it on the table--every dollar, 
every program, every issue. We may disagree about how to reduce the 
deficit but we should all agree that now is the time to do it. Not 
tomorrow. Not next year, or next month. Today.
  But it is not going to happen today. It never happens today. It has 
never happened in any of the todays that I have been here in the U.S. 
Senate or House of Representatives for the past 10 years. It never 
happened.
  The national debt in the last 10 years has doubled because we will 
not deal with it.
  So again, in conclusion, I urge my colleagues to support my motion. I 
do not expect them to support it. I will not be surprised when they do 
not. But if we did, we could take a small portion off the deficit of 
the United States, small--$93 million --and save $6.5 million in 
interest on that $93 million. And we could say we did that because it 
is the account that we control, the legislative branch appropriation.
  But we will not. We will not. As I say, history will judge us by what 
we do here, and the words we say are not enough. It is what we do. Many 
times the rhetoric does not equal the deed and, even now, you can sense 
the impatience: ``Soon Smith will be finished. He'll sit down and we'll 
vote for this bill and we will spend the $93 million and it will be 
over and nobody cares.''
  So I urge my colleagues to support my motion to recommit, which I 
have offered. I ask my colleagues to consider one small dent in one big 
debt and think about the fact that every one of the young children who 
are born tonight during this debate are born $17,000 in debt. That is 
their share of the national debt.
  It is not going to go down until you reduce spending. You just added 
$93 million more to it, plus $6.5 million more in interest, so roughly 
$100 million has been added to the debt tonight with your vote.
  Thank you, Mr. President. I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate on the motion?
  If not, the question is on agreeing to the motion.
  The motion was rejected.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I am going to be offering an amendment 
in a brief time. We are trying to get it drafted to be able to work 
something out here. It is an important question that we are raising 
here, and I think it is one that Members should give their attention 
to, but I also think it is one that, hopefully, we can agree on.
  The amendment, which will be before us shortly, is simple on its 
face. It requires the Congress to behave like all other American 
employers and not subject its employees to mandatory retirement based 
upon their age. We have seen any number of congressional accountability 
bills and amendments seeking to make Congress live under the laws that 
we impose on other employers. This amendment that I will be offering 
does exactly that. It limits itself to a very small slice of the 
Federal work force. Rule XLII of the Standing Rules of the Senate 
states:

       No Member, officer or employee of the Senate shall, with 
     respect to employment by the Senate or any office thereof, 
     fail or refuse to hire an individual, discharge an individual 
     or otherwise discriminate against an individual with respect 
     to promotion, compensation, or terms, conditions or 
     privileges of employment* * *

  It goes on:

       * * * on the basis of such individual's race, color, 
     religion, sex, national origin, age or state of physical 
     handicap.

  Today I am concerned about the discrimination on the basis of age, 
and it is clear that Congress cannot and should not engage in this 
practice.
  The Civil Rights Act of 1991, a law near and dear to my own heart, 
also addresses this issue. Title III of that law is entitled the 
Government Employee Rights Act [GERA]. It applies to Congress the same 
prohibitions on employment discrimination that apply throughout the 
Government and in private practice.
  Again, age discrimination, as defined in the Age Discrimination and 
Employment Act of 1967 [ADEA] is among the specific prohibitions 
applied to Congress.
  The specific age discrimination addressed by this amendment is the 
practice of forcing members of the Capitol Police, who are employees of 
Congress, to retire at the latter of the age 55 or when they reach 20 
years of service and are over the age of 55.
  As an ideological matter, I disagree with the premise that age is the 
best way to determine the continued capability of a given employee--in 
this case, a Capitol Police officer--to perform the task required in 
his or her job.
  Mandatory retirement has been abolished as an unnecessary form of 
age-based employment discrimination throughout the private sector. I 
was in the House of Representatives in 1986 when amendments to the Age 
Discrimination and Employment Act were being debated and eventually 
enacted.
  In the debate on the issue of creating exceptions permitting 
mandatory retirement of tenured faculty and public safety officers, I 
was on the losing side. However, the Senate resisted the House 
position, and the law which ultimately passed included a limited 7-year 
exemption of these two classes of employees; that is, of tenured 
faculty and public safety officers.
  The exceptions created in that law expired as of December 31, 1993, 
and I was completely in favor of allowing them to do so. I am also 
opposed to current legislative efforts to reinstate the exemption on a 
permanent basis.
  Two things have changed since 1986, Mr. President. First, the state 
of our knowledge on this issue has grown. Everybody has found out that 
mandatory retirement is an unnecessary and discriminatory means of 
dealing with personnel problems.
  The study of the issue requirement of the 1986 law concludes that:

       Accumulated deficits in abilities are only marginally 
     associated with chronological age and can be documented with 
     available tests that are better predictors of job performance 
     than age.

  Further, the Penn State researchers found:

       The risk of experiencing a catastrophic medical event that 
     would compromise public safety is so small as to eliminate 
     this factor in the debate regarding age-based retirement.

  Based on these findings, the recommendation of the researchers was 
that the exemption of public safety officers from the 1986 ADEA 
amendments be eliminated.
  Mr. President, here are the facts. Age discrimination and mandatory 
retirement have been outlawed for all private sector employees and the 
vast majority of public sector employees. With the expiration of the 
noted exemption, age discrimination and mandatory retirement have been 
outlawed for tenured faculty and public safety officers. With the 
passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, age discrimination and 
mandatory retirement have been outlawed for all congressional 
employees--all congressional employees, that is, except the Capitol 
Police. There is no reason for this anomaly to continue to exist. This 
amendment would end the practice of forcing such retirements by denying 
the use of funds to maintain or enforce the policy or to enforce the 
act under which they presently take place.
  I have raised this issue with the leadership and attempted to have 
the situation addressed by rulemaking or some other policy change. The 
situation continues today, and I think it is time for it to stop. This 
amendment has the support of the American Association of Retired 
Persons. I ask unanimous consent that a letter of support from that 
organization be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the letter was ordered to be printed in the 
Record, as follows:

                                           American Association of


                                              Retired Persons,

                                    Washington, DC, June 16, 1994.
     Hon. James Jeffords,
     U.S. Senate, Washington, DC.
       Dear Senator Jeffords: The American Association of Retired 
     Persons [AARP] represents millions of workers age 40 and 
     older. The right to work free of age discrimination is a 
     fundamental right and is generally insured by the Age 
     Discrimination in Employment Act [ADEA]. Unfortunately, too 
     many American workers are denied the protection of this law.
       The ADEA was amended in 1986 to abolish age-based mandatory 
     retirement for most workers in the private sector as well as 
     employees of state and local governments. Although most 
     federal workers also cannot be forcibly retired because of 
     their age, some exceptions remain, most notably for some 
     public safety employees.
       The Association supports the complete elimination of 
     mandatory retirement for all employees. Numerous studies, 
     including one commissioned by Congress and another published 
     by the FBI Academy and the Major City Chiefs of Police, have 
     found no basis for the belief that public safety would be 
     jeopardized by the continued employment of older workers. 
     Retirement decisions, these studies concluded, should be 
     based on ability rather than chronological age.
           Very truly yours,
                                                     Martin Corry,
                             Director, Federal Affairs Department.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. The amendment also has the support of the Leadership 
Conference on Civil Rights.
  Mr. President, I know the argument will be made that other Federal 
police officers are subject to mandatory retirement and that an effort 
was made in 1990 to treat the Capitol Police similar to those other 
Federal officers. However, in 1991, we overwhelmingly passed the Civil 
Rights Act which said, among other things, that Congress should live by 
the rules in the private sector with regard to not discriminating 
against its employees. The private sector can no longer engage in 
mandatory retirement, nor can State or local police forces. I believe 
we in Congress must also live up to that standard, Mr. President.


                           Amendment No. 1809

    (Purpose: To provide that no funds may be used to carry out the 
 provisions of retirement laws relating to the mandatory separation of 
                     members of the Capitol Police)

  Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I have an amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows.

       The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Jeffords], for himself and 
     Mr. Metzenbaum, proposes an amendment numbered 1809.

  Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of 
the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:
       Sec. A. No funds appropriated under this Act may be used to 
     carry out the provisions of section 8335(d) or 8425(b) of 
     title 5, United States Code, relating to the mandatory 
     separation of a member of the Capitol Police.
       Sec. B. Officers mandatorily separated under Public Law 
     101-428 shall be entitled to preferential rehire to the 
     extent qualified for any available positions.

  Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I would be happy to yield to my good 
friend from Ohio. I yield the floor at this time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Ohio [Mr. Metzenbaum] is 
recognized.
  Mr. METZENBAUM. Mr. President, I ask the Chair to add my name as a 
cosponsor of the amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. METZENBAUM. I am very pleased to join my colleague from Vermont 
in offering this amendment. We go back to 1986 on this subject when the 
Congress of the United States enacted a law that I had proposed banning 
discrimination in employment; you could not fire somebody because they 
had reached a particular age. We made that the law for all people in 
the Congress. We provided two exceptions. One exception was a group of 
professors up in the New England area, I think involving about seven 
universities, and the other was for the police and firemen. But the 
understanding was that 7 years thereafter everybody would be covered.
  My recollection is that the Senator from Kentucky, the Senator from 
Pennsylvania, Senator Heinz, who, unfortunately, left us, and I worked 
out that compromise with the police and firemen. Then we came along and 
said to the police and firemen who work for the Senate, well, as far as 
you are concerned, it is different; you have to lose your job.
  That just is not right. It just is not fair to those police officers. 
Capitol Hill Police officers are forced to retire at age 55. We are not 
forced to retire at age 55. If we did, I would not be standing here, 
and a number of other Members who are seated in the Chamber here this 
evening would not be here. For those of us who are either 55 or 65 or 
75, I think our constituents decide whether or not we stay here or 
whether we do not, but the law does not require us to retire.
  This is a misguided and unfair form of age discrimination. Although 
Federal law enforcement officers are subject to mandatory retirement 
age 57, that policy also needs to change. That is a different group.
  Recent studies completed after Congress passed mandatory retirement 
for law enforcement officers have shown that older law enforcement 
officers are just as capable as younger officers. When they are not as 
capable and when they are not capable enough to do the job, whatever 
their age, they should not be on the police force and the fire force.
  Who are these men and women about whom we are speaking? They are the 
people who help and protect Members of Congress every day, day in and 
day out. They are the men and women who guard the doors, who say good 
night to us, and good morning to us. They check visitors to see that 
they do not walk into this building and take a potshot at us, and they 
patrol the Hill for safety.
  They are the men and women like Leon Monroe, who was forced to retire 
at the beginning of this year. He testified at a Labor Committee 
hearing I held earlier this year about how he was forced to retire 
under the law. Just about every Member of the Senate knew Leon Monroe. 
When we left here, whether it was 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, or 
12 o'clock at night, he was the one standing down at the door greeting 
us. Let me read to you--it is a little bit lengthy, but I want to share 
with you what he testified at our committee hearing on this subject.

       I believe I was capable of working longer and I wanted to 
     work longer. In fact, when I retired, I received a tribute on 
     the Senate floor from several Senators. They said things 
     like, ``Officer Monroe has been recognized time and again for 
     his diligence and professionalism. His file is full of 
     letters from citizens and Members of the House and Senate, 
     complimenting the superb manner in which he carries out his 
     duties. He has also shown concern for his co-workers by 
     donating his leave to those who have experienced extended 
     absences because of illness or injury. He is one of the very 
     best people I have known since I have been in Washington.'' 
     When I retired, the Sergeant at Arms had a retirement 
     ceremony for me and I was moved that most of the Senate 
     leadership came to the party. Senator Mitchell even gave me a 
     plaque.
       I believe I was able to do the kind of job that would call 
     for these compliments because I loved my job. I gave my heart 
     to my job. I tried to do everything I could for the Senators, 
     the staff, the public who came in, and my coworkers. As one 
     of the Senators mentioned in his tribute to me on the Senate 
     floor, I always tried to be friendly, courteous, polite and 
     helpful to everyone. During 20 years of service, I only 
     missed a total of 51 days. For 20 years, I drove in every day 
     all the way from Baltimore.
       Being forced to retire has been a real hardship for me. 
     Since this law passed in 1990 and I had to retire in January 
     of 1994, I had very little time to prepare for my retirement, 
     because I had to retire so much earlier than I had intended. 
     I now have to make the house payments, car payments, and pay 
     other bills on a retirement pension that is half the salary I 
     was making before. I used to try to help out my sister and 
     niece, who are in real financial need, whenever I could, but 
     now I don't have the money to do that. I also give money to 
     the church, but I am having trouble doing that now too.
       I am suffering emotionally, as well as financially. I miss 
     my job and my coworkers. I miss being in the Senate and I 
     miss the Senators. I am working part time now directing 
     traffic for school children, but it isn't the same.
       I would very much like to be back at work in the Senate. I 
     do not believe this law that forced me to retire is fair. I 
     believe it is age discrimination. If I wasn't able to work, 
     that would be a different story. But I am able; so I think 
     its wrong.

  I ask unanimous consent that the entire statement be printed in the 
Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

      Testimony of Leon A. Monroe, Retired Capitol Police Officer

       Good morning. My name is Leon Monroe and I am a retired 
     Capitol Police Officer. I was forced to retire on January 31, 
     1994, at the age of 62.
       I was forced to retire under a federal law that requires 
     Capitol Police to retire the later of age 55 or once they 
     reach 20 years of service. Congress passed this law in 1990 
     and it became effective in 1992. Since the law became 
     effective, I understand that approximately 110 officers have 
     been forced to retire. I understand that Senator Metzenbaum 
     has introduced a bill that would abolish mandatory retirement 
     for Capitol Police and other federal law enforcement and 
     firefighters. I want the Senator to know that I appreciate 
     his efforts.
       I believe I was capable of working longer and I wanted to 
     work longer. In fact, when I retired, I received a tribute on 
     the Senate floor from several senators. They said things 
     like, ``Officer Monroe has been recognized time and again for 
     his diligence and professionalism. His file is full of 
     letters from citizens and members of the House and Senate, 
     complimenting the superb manner in which he carries out his 
     duties. He has also shown concern for his co-workers by 
     donating his leave to those who have experienced extended 
     absences because of illness or injury. He is one of the very 
     best people I have known since I have been in Washington.'' 
     When I retired, the Sergeant-at-Arms had a retirement 
     ceremony for me and I was moved that most of the Senate 
     leadership came to the party. Senator Mitchell even gave me a 
     plaque.
       I believe I was able to do the kind of job that would call 
     for these compliments because I loved my job. I gave my heart 
     to my job. I tried to do everything I could for the Senators, 
     the staff, the public who came in, and my co-workers. As one 
     of the senators mentioned in his tribute to me on the Senate 
     floor, I always tried to be friendly, courteous, polite and 
     helpful to everyone. During 20 years of service, I only 
     missed a total of 51 days. For 20 years, I drove in every day 
     all the way from Baltimore.
       Being forced to retire has been a real hardship for me. 
     Since this law passed in 1990 and I had to retire in January 
     of 1994, I had very little time to prepare for my retirement, 
     because I had to retire so much earlier than I had intended. 
     I now have to make house payments, car payments, and pay 
     other bills on a retirement pension that is half the salary I 
     was making before. I used to try to help out my sister and 
     niece, who are in real financial need, whenever I could, but 
     now I don't have the money to do that. I also give money to 
     the church, but I am having trouble doing that now too.
       I am suffering emotionally, as well as financially. I miss 
     my job and my co-workers. I miss being in the Senate and I 
     miss the Senators. I am working part-time now directing 
     traffic for school-children, but it isn't the same.
       I would very much like to be back at work in the Senate. I 
     do not believe this law that forced me to retire is fair. I 
     believe it is age discrimination. If I wasn't able to work, 
     that would be a different story. But I am able; so I think 
     its wrong.

  Mr. METZENBAUM. Mr. President, Leon Monroe is just one of many men 
and women who should be allowed to serve the U.S. Senate and the House 
as long as they are able and willing. No one is suggesting that older 
officers be required to stay on the job if they are not physically able 
to do the job.
  We had expert testimony at the hearing we conducted on this subject 
where a study was made, and there was no correlation between age and 
the ability to do the job. Physical fitness is a legitimate job 
qualification, and employees should be required to prove that they are 
qualified to do the job. If they are able, they should be allowed to 
continue to serve this body and the country. By forcing them to retire 
early, we are forcing them to take reduced pensions, lose other 
valuable benefits, yes, and lose a sense of their own dignity. The odds 
that they will be able to get a comparable job at comparable wages are 
slim.
  How could we in good conscience say that one law is applicable to all 
of the people of the United States and another law is applicable to 
those officers who work for the U.S. Senate? What an unbelievable 
concept. No one tells any of us Senators that we are too old to perform 
our jobs. There is no reason that the Congress should treat these men 
and women differently.
  I think this amendment is so right. I know that there are thoughts 
about dropping it in conference. I hope to be able to prove, before the 
matter goes to conference, the reality of what is happening in America. 
There are many police officers throughout this country who are not 
forced to retire because they reach a specific age. In fact, more than 
half of the police officers in this country are not forced to retire by 
reason of age.
  I hope when the Senate accepts this amendment, as I understand the 
chairman of the committee is prepared to do, I hope that he can see fit 
to fight for it to remain in the bill when it goes to conference.
  Mr. President, I yield the floor.
  Mr. JEFFORDS addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, if I could make a very brief comment, I 
want to commend the Senator from Ohio for his longstanding effort on 
behalf of all Americans to be able to be treated fairly under the law. 
I have worked with him many times over the years, and I am sorry to see 
him go at the end of this session. What he has said is absolutely 
correct.
  I will just make one comment about history. Fifteen years ago, by 
virtue of an opinion of the Attorney General of the United States, 
neither the Federal executive branch nor the Congress were considered 
to have to be under the civil rights law and laws against 
discrimination. In 1978, I was successful in working with others to get 
an amendment, for the first time, for the Federal branch under civil 
rights laws with regard to the disabled. Now we are coming close to the 
end, hopefully, of completing that long, hard fight to get everyone 
that should be appropriately covered in both branches under the laws 
that certainly are there to aid all other Americans.
  So I appreciate the understanding that this amendment will be 
accepted. I think it is only appropriate that it should be. I thank the 
leadership for that.
  I yield the floor.
  Mr. REID addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I certainly understand the intent of the 
authors of the amendment and their diligence.
  I ask unanimous consent to have a letter from Robert L. Benoit, a 
member of the U.S. Capitol Police Board, be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:


                                                  U.S. Senate,

                                    Washington, DC, June 16, 1994.
     Hon. Harry Reid,
     Chairman, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations, 
         Washington, DC.
       Dear Chairman Reid: On behalf of the Capitol Police Board, 
     I am responding to your inquiry regarding Capitol Police 
     retirement mandates. It has been the Board's intention to be 
     consistent with other federal law enforcement agencies in its 
     personnel policies and procedures. In this regard, the Board 
     supports increasing the mandatory retirement age from 55 to 
     57 for Capitol Police officers. This increase will attain 
     parity with other federal law enforcement agencies and their 
     retirement mandates.
       The Board believes that a mandatory retirement provision 
     will continue to assist female officers and minority officers 
     in achieving upward mobility within this organization. Absent 
     a mandatory retirement age for police officers, fewer 
     vacancies will be created to accommodate promotions. 
     Therefore, the unintended effect of eliminating mandatory 
     retirement would be a reduction in opportunities for officers 
     interested in advancement.
       Over the past year, we have instituted a minority 
     recruitment program and have executed contracts which provide 
     for outside vendors to develop, administer and certify our 
     promotional testing processes. It is the Board's intention to 
     continue providing as many opportunities for advancement as 
     possible.
       Thank you for your attention to this matter. If you have 
     any questions or need additional information, please contact 
     me at your convenience.
           Sincerely,
                                                 Robert L. Benoit,
                                Member, U.S. Capitol Police Board.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, also before we accept this, the reason we 
have mandatory retirement--and, in fact, Senator Mack and I have agreed 
in our bill to meet the House number and raise the mandatory retirement 
age to 57--is because all Federal law enforcement agencies currently 
require mandatory retirement at 57.
  We will take a look at this in conference. Senator Metzenbaum has 
indicated that he has held some hearings. He is going to give me the 
benefit of those hearings, and we will take a close look at it in 
conference.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate on the amendment? If 
not, the question is on agreeing to the amendment of the Senator from 
Vermont.
  The amendment (No. 1809) was agreed to.
  Mr. METZENBAUM. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which 
the amendment was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the motion to table is 
agreed to.


                 Amendment Nos. 1810 and 1811, En Bloc

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I have two manager amendments of a technical 
nature. The first has corrective language regarding the availability of 
allocation of funds for the Sergeant at Arms expense account. The 
second modifies bill language under the Government Printing Office and 
the Superintendant of Documents accounts with respect to electronic 
access.
  I send both to the desk, and I ask unanimous consent that they be 
considered en bloc.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Nevada [Mr. Reid] proposes amendments 
     numbered 1810 and 18ll, en bloc.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of the 
amendments be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate on the amendments? If 
not, the question is on agreeing to the amendments offered by the 
Senator from Nevada.
  The amendments (Nos. 1810 and 1811) en bloc were agreed to.
  The amendments were agreed to as follows:

                           amendment no. 1810

  (Purpose: To modify the appropriation for the Sergeant at Arms and 
                       Doorkeeper of the Senate)

       On page 5, line 25, before the period insert the following: 
     ``, of which $21,347,000 shall remain available until 
     expended''.
                                  ____



                           amendment no. 1811

            (Purpose: To strike the proviso relating to GPO)

       On page 36, beginning with ``That'' on line 4, strike all 
     through ``Provided further,'' on line 8.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which the 
amendments were agreed to.
  Mr. MACK. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.


                           Amendment No. 1812

  (Purpose: To modify certain restrictions relating to the Government 
                            Printing Office)

  Mr. MACK. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk in behalf of 
Mr. Burns, and I ask for its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Florida [Mr. Mack], for Mr. Burns, 
     proposes an amendment numbered 1812.

  Mr. MACK. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of the 
amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:
       Sec.   . Section 207(a) of the Legislative Appropriations 
     Act, 1993 (Public Law 102-392) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1) by inserting ``or made available from 
     any source'' after ``appropriated'';
       (2) in paragraph (2)(A) by inserting after ``as certified 
     by the Public Printer,'' the following: ``if the work is 
     included in a class of work which'';
       (3) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4);
       (4) by adding after paragraph (2) the following:
       ``(3) Any Federal officer or employee who publishes a 
     Government publication or orders or contracts for an 
     individual printing order under paragraph (2) shall comply 
     with all applicable provisions of chapter 19, title 44, 
     United States Code, regarding distribution of Government 
     publications by the Government Printing Office to Federal 
     depository libraries.''; and
       (5) by amending paragraph (4), as redesignated to read as 
     follows:
       ``(4) As used in this section, the term `printing' includes 
     the processes of composition, platemaking, presswork, 
     duplicating, silk screen processes, production of an image on 
     paper or other substrate by any process, binding, microform, 
     and the end items of such processes.''.

  Mr. BURNS. Mr. President, I rise today to offer an amendment H.R. 
4454, the legislative branch appropriation bill. This amendment is 
similar to the amendment I offered last year which passed the Senate 
but was dropped during conference.
  This is cost-saving amendment regarding the printing of Government 
documents. Most people, including those in Montana, are telling 
Congress to cut Government spending, and this amendment will save our 
Government about $120 million.
  The amendment requires that large print jobs be sent to the 21 
regional centers of the Government Printing Office across the country 
and awarded to open-competitive, private-sector bids. These private 
sector competitive jobs save taxpayers approximately 50 percent over 
the agency in-house jobs of over $1000 in cost. The bottom line is, 
this amendment saves American taxpayers at least $120 million.
  Not only will this stop redundancy in our Government, it will create 
jobs. Allowing the private sector to perform these services means more 
jobs. This was a win-win situation.
  I urge the adoption of this amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate on the amendment?
  Mr. MACK. Mr. President, I believe this has been cleared on both 
sides.
  Mr. REID. It has been cleared. There is no further debate, Mr. 
President.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further debate, the question is 
on agreeing to the amendment of the Senator from Montana.
  The amendment (No. 1812) was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the motion to reconsider 
and the motion to lay on the table are agreed to.


               Amendments Numbered 1813 and 1814, En Bloc

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I have two amendments which have been 
cleared on both sides.
  I send these to the desk and ask that they be considered and agreed 
to, en bloc.
  The first restricts availability of funds provided for increased pay 
costs to the levels authorized in the final action on the Treasury, 
Postal Service, and general Government bill.
  I talked about this in my earlier statement. If, in fact, the 
Treasury-Postal Service increases, the legislative branch would be 
increased. If it does not, we will not increase.
  The second requires any additional costs associated with the 
renovation of the Senate page dorm to be absorbed under the Senate 
Office Buildings account.
  I believe both these amendments have been cleared by the minority.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the amendments will be 
considered en bloc.
  The clerk will report the amendments.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Nevada [Mr. Reid] proposes amendments 
     numbered 1813 and 1814, en bloc.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of the 
amendments be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Is there further debate on the amendments? If not, the question is on 
agreeing to the amendments of the Senator from Nevada, en bloc.
  The amendments (Nos. 1813 and 1814) were agreed to; as follows:


                           amendment no. 1813

  (Purpose: To make the availability of certain funds subject to the 
                   enactment of certain legislation)

       At the end of the bill, add the following:
       Sec. __. The following amounts appropriated under the 
     following headings shall be withheld from obligation and 
     shall only become available to the extent necessary to cover 
     the costs of increases in pay and allowances authorized 
     pursuant to the enactment of H.R. 4539, of the 103d Congress, 
     or pursuant to the pay order of the President or other 
     administrative action pursuant to law:

Capitol Police Board:
  Capitol Police:
    Salaries...................................................$167,000
Office of Technology Assessment:
  Salaries and expenses..........................................39,000
Congressional Budget Office:
  Salaries and expenses..........................................55,000
Architect of the Capitol:
  Office of the Architect of the Capitol:
    Salaries....................................................176,000
  Capitol Buildings and Grounds:
    Capitol buildings...........................................161,000
    Capitol grounds..............................................69,000
    Senate office buildings.....................................280,000
    Capitol Power Plant..........................................95,000
Library of Congress:
  Congressional Research Service:
    Salaries and expenses.......................................671,000
Government Printing Office:
  Congressional Printing and Binding..........................2,007,000
  Office of Superintendent of Documents:
    Salaries and expenses.......................................107,000
Botanic Garden:
  Salaries and expenses..........................................48,000
Library of Congress:
  Salaries and expenses.......................................2,307,000
  Copyright Office:
    Salaries and expenses.......................................270,000
  Books for the Blind and Physically Handicapped:
    Salaries and expenses........................................79,000
Architect of the Capitol:
  Library building and grounds:
    Structural and mechanical care..............................123,000
General Accounting Office:
  Salaries and expenses.......................................3,835,000


                           amendment no. 1814

       On page 26, line 14, after ``expended'', insert:
       Provided, that of the amount appropriated under this 
     heading such sums as are necessary shall be used, at the 
     direction of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the 
     Senate, to complete improvements to the property acquired 
     pursuant to section 1202 of P.L. 103-50.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which the 
amendments were agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the motion to lay on the 
table is agreed to.


                           Amendment No. 1815

                   (Purpose: To limit mass mailings)

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the bill reported by the committee contains 
language banning mass mailings with certain exceptions.
  A number of the Senators expressed concern about that provision in 
its present form. I said in full committee that a compromise in the 
interest of Senators was being developed, and I am glad to say we were 
finally able to do this.
  I have a package of amendments that incorporates an acceptable 
resolution of the issues.
  I send the amendment to the desk, and ask for its immediate 
consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Nevada [Mr. Reid] proposes an amendment 
     numbered 1815.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of the 
amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

       On page 6, line 19, strike ``$15,000,000'' and insert 
     ``$11,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
     1996''.
       On page 10, line 18, strike ``$20,000'' and insert 
     ``$50,000: Provided, That, in any fiscal year beginning with 
     fiscal year 1995, a Senator may use funds provided for 
     official office expenses, but not to exceed $50,000, for mass 
     mailing, as defined in section 6(b)(1) and all such mass 
     mailings shall be under the frank''.
       On page 10, line 20, strike ``, Senators-elect, and offices 
     of the Senate''.
       On page 11, line 2, insert ``more than'' before ``500'' and 
     strike ``or more''.
       On page 11, beginning with ``(to the extent'' on line 10, 
     strike all through ``Congress'' on line 17.
       On page 11, line 23, strike ``or mobile office''.
       On page 11, line 24, after ``notice'' insert ``, but no 
     such mailing may be made fewer than 60 days immediately 
     before the date of any primary election or general election 
     (whether regular, special, or runoff) for any Federal, State, 
     or local office in which a Member of the Senate is a 
     candidate for election''.
       On page 12, line 6, strike ``A'' and insert ``Except as 
     provided in section 5, a''.
       On page 12, line 6, strike ``, Senator-elect, or office of 
     the Senate''.
       On page 12, line 11, strike ``and Senators-elect''.
       On page 12, between lines 16 and 17, insert the following:
       Sec. 8. None of the funds appropriated under the heading 
     ``SENATE'' under the subheading ``official mail costs'' may 
     be used in any fiscal year beginning on or after October 1, 
     1994, for mass mailings as defined in section 6(b)(1).

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, a compromise has been reached on section 6 
and related mass mail issues. The major elements of the agreement are 
as follows:
  (1) Reduction in official mail to $11 million.
  (2) Language prohibiting mass mailings under the official mail 
account.
  (3) Language deleting the ban on mass mailing with respect to offices 
of the Senate.
  (4) Increase of $3 million in appropriation for Senators' official 
personnel and office expenses account.
  (5) Increase of Senator's official expense allowance by $30 thousand 
in addition to $20 thousand already in the bill.
  (6) Language allowing additional $50 thousand in expenses allowance 
to be used for mass mailings subject to existing rules.
  (7) Series of technical and conforming amendments to subject mailings 
financed from the office account to the same rules now applicable to 
mass mailings under the official mail account.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate on the amendment? If 
not, the question is on agreeing to the amendment of the Senator from 
Nevada.
  The amendment (No. 1815) was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the motion to reconsider 
and the motion to lay on the table are agreed to.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. WOFFORD. Mr. President, when I came to the Senate I made a 
promise to the people of Pennsylvania that I would not send out 
taxpayer-financed self-promotional mass mailings. And I have not.
  Everywhere I go in Pennsylvania the people are demanding that their 
Government be fiscally responsible, set priorities, cut waste and 
unneeded programs and realize that most people live paycheck to 
paycheck. For most families every nickel of income is accounted for in 
their budgets. And while they are struggling to pay the mortgages, pay 
skyrocketing health care costs, to find affordable child care, and just 
pay the bills, the last thing they need is a piece of self-promotional 
junk mail in their mail box--a self-promotional newsletter that they 
are paying for.
  That is why I have promised not to do mass mailings, and why I am 
returning an $445,000 of unused mass mail money from my office account. 
Together with unused funds that I have returned to the Federal treasury 
in the past, that makes more than $1 million of unspent taxpayer money 
that I have returned since I have been in the Senate.
  Like getting rid of free health care for Members of Congress, as I 
proposed in 1991 and we accomplished in 1992, this is one more way that 
we can put Congress in the same boat as the people we represent. In 
ways large and small, symbolic and substantive, we have to take actions 
that bring a sense of responsibility and respect to public service. 
Ending self-promotional mass mail, ending free health care, ending 
wasteful congressional office moves are some of the ways we can do just 
that.
  I understand from the distinguished managers of the bill that my 
amendment returning unused mass mail funds has been cleared on both 
sides. And I thank the managers for their cooperation.


                              office moves

  Mr. WOFFORD. Mr. President, today I had planned to propose an 
amendment to this bill to put an end to the practice of Senate office 
moves. As I have said before, I think we should put a stop to the 
unnecessary and wasteful practice of moving Senators after each 
election. Instead, I propose that each State be assigned two permanent 
offices--the type of arrangement that California already has.
  However, in discussions with the distinguished chairman of the Rules 
Committee, we have reached agreement about an alternate course of 
action. The chairman has long experience with the management of Senate 
offices, and he has agreed to hold hearings on my proposal so that the 
entire question of office moves can receive a full airing. He has 
promised to conduct these hearings in the Rules Committee in a timely 
fashion so that the Senate can address the issue of office moves this 
year.
  Mr. FORD. I commend my friend the Senator from Pennsylvania on his 
efforts to improve the operation of the Senate. Since coming to the 
Senate 3 years ago, he has been unstinting in his work in this regard. 
Most notably, 3 years ago the Senator from Pennsylvania rightly 
insisted that Members of Congress should pay for their health 
insurance, just as other Americans do. He was right, and we adopted his 
proposal.
  Now he has identified another area in which he believes we can 
improve the manner in which the Senate operates. He is proposing a 
change in the manner in which offices are assigned to Senators. This is 
a serious matter, and I commend the Senator for bringing it to the 
attention of the body.
  Before moving forward, however, I think it would be wise and prudent 
to hold hearings on how best to accomplish the type of reform that the 
Senator from Pennsylvania has proposed. Furthermore, since the 
recommended change could affect virtually every Senator, I think it is 
only proper to give all Senators an opportunity to be heard on the 
Senator's proposal. In that regard, I propose that the Rules Committee 
will conduct timely hearings on the Senator's proposal to assign 
permanent offices to each state.
  Mr. WOFFORD. I thank the distinguished chairman. As he knows, I 
remain convinced that we should move to a system in which every State 
is assigned permanent offices. This reform would save money, end the 
disruption of office moves, and end the confusion that our constituents 
experience in looking for their Senator's office. However, the chairman 
has promised to move forward expeditiously with hearings so that we can 
revisit this issue when the Senate considers congressional reform 
legislation soon. I thank the chairman and accept his proposal for 
timely hearings on my proposal.


                           amendment no. 1817

 (Purpose: To establish a Human Resources Program for the Architect of 
                              the Capitol)

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk and ask for 
its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Nevada [Mr. Reid] proposes an amendment 
     numbered 1817.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of the 
amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

       At the end of the bill, add the following:

       SEC. __. ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL HUMAN RESOURCES PROGRAM.

       (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the 
     ``Architect of the Capitol Human Resources Act''.
       (b) Finding and Purpose.--
       (1) Finding.--The Congress finds that the Office of the 
     Architect of the Capitol should develop human resources 
     management programs that are consistent with the practices 
     common among other Federal and private sector organizations.
       (2) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this section to require 
     the Architect of the Capitol to establish and maintain a 
     personnel management system that incorporates fundamental 
     principles that exist in other modern personnel systems.
       (c) Personnel Management System.--
       (1) Establishment.--The Architect of the Capitol shall 
     establish and maintain a personnel management system.
       (2) Requirements.--The personnel management system shall at 
     a minimum include the following:
       (A) A system which ensures that applicants for employment 
     and employees of the Architect of the Capitol are appointed, 
     promoted, and assigned on the basis of merit and fitness 
     after fair and equitable consideration of all applicants and 
     employees through open competition.
       (B) An equal employment opportunity program which includes 
     an affirmative employment program for employees and 
     applicants for employment, and procedures for monitoring 
     progress by the Architect of the Capitol in ensuring a 
     workforce reflective of the diverse labor force.
       (C) A system for the classification of positions which 
     takes into account the difficulty, responsibility, and 
     qualification requirements of the work performed, and which 
     conforms to the principle of equal pay for substantially 
     equal work.
       (D) A program for the training of Architect of the Capitol 
     employees which has among its goals improved employee 
     performance and opportunities for employee advancement.
       (E) A formal performance appraisal system which will permit 
     the accurate evaluation of job performance on the basis of 
     objective criteria for all Architect of the Capitol 
     employees.
       (F) A fair and equitable system to address unacceptable 
     conduct and performance by Architect of the Capitol 
     employees, including a general statement of violations, 
     sanctions, and procedures which shall be made known to all 
     employees, and a formal grievance procedure.
       (G) A program to provide services to deal with mental 
     health, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and other employee 
     problems, and which ensures employee confidentiality.
       (H) A formal policy statement regarding the use and accrual 
     of sick and annual leave which shall be made known to all 
     employees, and which is consistent with the other 
     requirements of this section.
       (d) Implementation of Personnel Management System.--
       (1) Development of Plan.--The Architect of the Capitol 
     shall--
       (A) develop a plan for the establishment and maintenance of 
     a personnel management system designed to achieve the 
     requirements of subsection (c);
       (B) submit the plan to the Speaker of the House of 
     Representatives, the House Office Building Commission, the 
     Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, and the 
     Joint Committee on the Library not later than 12 months after 
     the date of enactment of this Act; and
       (C) implement the plan not later than 90 days after the 
     plan is submitted to the Speaker of the House of 
     Representatives, the House Office Building Commission, the 
     Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, and the 
     Joint Committee on the Library, as specified in paragraph 
     (2).
       (2) Evaluation and Reporting.--The Architect of the Capitol 
     shall develop a system of oversight and evaluation to ensure 
     that the personnel management system of the Architect of the 
     Capitol achieves the requirements of subsection (c) and 
     complies with all other relevant laws, rules and regulations. 
     The Architect of the Capitol shall report to the Speaker of 
     the House of Representatives, the House Office Building 
     Commission, the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 
     Senate, and the Joint Committee on the Library on an annual 
     basis the results of its evaluation under this subsection.
       (3) Application of Laws.--Nothing in this section shall be 
     construed to alter or supersede any other provision of law 
     otherwise applicable to the Architect of the Capitol or its 
     employees, unless expressly provided in this section.
       (e) Discrimination Complaint Processing.--
       (1) Definitions.--For purposes of this subsection:
       (A) The term ``employee of the Architect of the Capitol'' 
     or ``employee'' means--
       (i) any employee of the Architect of the Capitol, the 
     Botanic Garden, or the Senate Restaurants;
       (ii) any applicant for a position that is to be occupied by 
     an individual described in subparagraph (A); or
       (iii) within 180 days after the termination of employment 
     with the Architect of the Capitol, any individual who was 
     formerly an employee described in subparagraph (A) and whose 
     claim of a violation arises out of the individual's 
     employment with the Architect of the Capitol.
       (B) The term ``violation'' means a practice that violates 
     subsection (b) of this section.
       (2) Discriminatory Practices Prohibited.--
       (A) In general.--All personnel actions affecting employees 
     of the Architect of the Capitol shall be made free from any 
     discrimination based on--
       (i) race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, within 
     the meaning of section 717 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 
     (42 U.S.C. 2000e-16);
       (ii) age, within the meaning of section 15 of the Age 
     Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (29 U.S.C. 633a); or
       (iii) handicap or disability, within the meaning of section 
     501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 791) and 
     sections 102 through 104 of the Americans with Disabilities 
     Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12112-14).
       (B) Intimidation prohibited.--Any intimidation of, or 
     reprisal against, any employee by the Architect of the 
     Capitol, or by any employee of the Architect of the Capitol, 
     because of the exercise of a right under this section 
     constitutes an unlawful employment practice, which may be 
     remedied in the same manner as are other violations described 
     in paragraph (1).
       (3) Procedure for Consideration of Alleged Violations.--
       (A) General accounting office personnel appeals board.--(i) 
     Any employee of the Architect of the Capitol alleging a 
     violation of paragraph (2) may file a charge with the General 
     Accounting Office Personnel Appeals Board in accordance with 
     the General Accounting Office Personnel Act of 1980 (31 
     U.S.C. 751-55) and regulations of the Board. Such a charge 
     may be filed only after the employee has filed a complaint 
     with the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with 
     requirements prescribed by the Architect of the Capitol and 
     has exhausted all remedies pursuant to such requirements.
       (ii) The Architect of the Capitol shall carry out any 
     action within its authority that the Board orders under 
     section 4 of the General Accounting Office Personnel Act of 
     1980 (31 U.S.C. 753).
       (iii) The Architect of the Capitol shall reimburse the 
     General Accounting Office for costs incurred by the Board in 
     considering charges filed under this subsection.
       (B) General accounting office personnel appeals board or 
     office of senate fair employment practices.--An employee of 
     the Architect of the Capitol who is assigned to the Senate 
     Restaurants or to the Superintendent of the Senate Office 
     Buildings alleging a violation of subsection (b) may file a 
     charge pursuant to paragraph (1), or may elect to follow the 
     procedures outlined in the Government Employee Rights Act of 
     1991 (2 U.S.C. 1201 et seq.).
       (4) Amendments to the General Accounting Office Personnel 
     Act of 1980.--
       (A) Section 751(a)(1) of title 31, United States Code, 
     amended by inserting ``or Architect of the Capitol'' after 
     ``Office''.
       (B) Section 753(a) of title 31, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (i) in paragraph (7) by striking ``and'' at the end of the 
     paragraph;
       (ii) in paragraph (8) by striking the period and inserting 
     ``; and''; and
       (iii) by inserting at the end thereof the following:
       ``(9) an action involving discrimination prohibited under 
     subsection (d)(2) of the Architect of the Capitol Human 
     Resources Act.''
       (C) Section 755 of title 31, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (i) in subsection (a) by striking the ``or (7)'' and 
     inserting ``, (7), or (9)''; and
       (ii) in subsection (b) by striking ``or applicant for 
     employment'' and inserting ``applicant for employment, or 
     employee of the Architect of the Capitol''.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the amendment that has been sent to the desk 
has been cleared on both sides. It relates to the improvement of 
personnel management practices in the Office of the Architect of the 
Capitol.
  Mr. President, this amendment is a modified version of Senator 
Mikulski's bill, and it will achieve the goal of establishing a modern 
personnel system for the Architect of the Capitol. The Architect's 
existing authority and employment practices need to be updated to 
reflect modern personnel management practices. This amendment will 
create authority for a new personnel management system for the 
Architect which will provide new direction and authority where it is 
lacking and carefully integrate that with existing law. Adopting the 
proposed amendment will accomplish the following goals.
  First, it will establish the basic requirements of a new personnel 
management system, including: assurance of fair personnel appointments, 
promotions and assignments based on merit and fitness; create an 
affirmative employment program with monitoring procedures to ensure a 
workforce reflective of the diversified labor pool; assure a 
classification system for jobs that ensures equal pay for equal work; 
improve employee performance and opportunities through training; 
creates a performance-based job evaluation system; assures that all 
employees have access to a fair and equitable system for addressing job 
conduct and performance, including a formal grievance process; assures 
confidential programs for employee assistance to deal with mental 
health, alcohol and drug abuse, and other employee problems; and 
assures a fair and clearly understood and administered sick and annual 
leave policy.
  Secondly, this amendment will require an implementation process for 
these new and enhanced personnel management practices, including 
evaluating and reporting annually to the Congress on the program's 
evaluation.
  Finally, the amendment will provide for all Architect employees a 
clearly defined appeals process through which they may address 
complaints of job discrimination. The amendment clearly prohibits job 
discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion, or national origin; 
age; and handicap or disability. The amendment provides a fair and 
equitable system for employees who feel they have a discrimination 
complaint to file, and fully protects them from any intimidation or 
reprisal. The amendment also establishes a uniform appeals process for 
employees of the Architect's office that is fair, objective and final.
  I believe that this amendment will correct deficiencies recently 
cited by the GAO regarding the Architect's personnel management 
practices and policies. It is a tough amendment, with a tight time 
frame, and the reporting requirement will assure that the objectives of 
fair treatment and equal opportunity are realized.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate on the amendment?
  The question is on agreeing to the amendment.
  The amendment (No. 1817) was agreed to.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. MACK. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, I have reluctantly agreed to permitting 
this bill, H.R. 4454, the legislative branch appropriations for fiscal 
year 1995, to be passed on a voice vote. I truly think there should be 
a roll call vote on all legislation relating to Government spending. 
However, since there are several Senators absent this evening I will 
forgo asking for the yeas and nays. If a roll call vote were to be 
conducted on passage of H.R. 4454, I would like the record to reflect 
that I would have voted in the negative.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I know of no further amendments to be 
offered.
  I ask for third reading of the bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the engrossment of the 
amendment and third reading of the bill.
  The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a 
third time.
  The bill was read a third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time, the 
question is, Shall the bill pass?
  So the bill (H.R. 4454), as amended, was passed.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. MACK. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I wish at this time to acknowledge the staff 
that has worked on this bill. We have been waiting around for several 
days to bring this before the body while the airport bill was being 
debated these past several days.
  I want to extend my appreciation to my clerk of the Appropriations 
Committee and the subcommittee, Jerry Bonham. He and I have worked 
together on this bill for 6 years. This has been a difficult year 
because of all of the budget constraints. We have had to work doubly 
hard, and I extend my thanks to him.
  I extend appreciation to Chuck Turner, who has helped both the 
majority and minority staff.
  I wish to also extend my appreciation to Keith Kennedy, who has also 
worked on this bill with Jerry Bonham. In these past 6 years I have 
gotten to know Keith very well. I appreciate his expertise and 
experience that he so generously has offered to me over these many 
years.
  And, of course, I extend my appreciation again to Senator Mack. It 
has been a pleasure working with him.
  Also because he is here on the floor, I thank Senator Ford. A lot of 
what this bill does we have to work in conjunction with the Rules 
Committee, the chairman of which, of course, is Chairman Senator 
Wendell Ford. I think we worked well together. There is opportunity for 
jurisdictional disputes. We never have those. If a problem arises, 
Senator Ford calls me, and we work it out, or I call him. So we never 
had a problem. He has been a pleasure to work with and the people of 
Kentucky are lucky that he represents them.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Florida.
  Mr. MACK. Mr. President, I also express my appreciation to members of 
the staff on both sides who helped us in preparation of this bill. I 
thank Larry Harris of my staff and Keith Kennedy for his work and his 
effort over these several months, and also Jerry Bonham.
  I appreciate the cooperative spirit in which we worked together over 
these last several months to put this bill together.
  Thank you, Mr. President.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, in looking at my notes I failed to mention 
Larry Harris who works with Connie Mack on Senator Mack's staff. I also 
express my appreciation to him. He has been as diligent as his Senator 
in working this bill out for which I am grateful.
  Mr. President, I move that the Senate insist on its amendments and 
request a conference with the House of Representatives thereon, and 
that the Chair be authorized to appoint the conferees on the part of 
the Senate.
  The motion was agreed to, and the Presiding Officer (Mr. Rockefeller) 
appointed Mr. Reid, Ms. Mikulski, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Byrd, Mr. Mack, Mr. 
Burns, and Mr. Hatfield conferees on the part of the Senate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kentucky.
  Mr. FORD. Mr. President, let me say to my fine colleagues and friends 
here, Senator Reid and Senator Mack, and to Jerry Bonham and other 
members of the staff, as Senator Reid mentioned, I want to return the 
compliments because it has been treacherous waters trying to satisfy 
all Senators to do the things that we felt were important to meet the 
goals of the reduction of expenditures and staff and then to meet and 
accommodate the ever-growing needs of many of the Senators with more 
letters coming today than ever before, more work to do with more i's to 
dot and more t's to cross. No one could work any better than these two 
gentleman with the Rules Committee, and I hope we reciprocated.
  So, as I say, we go through these treacherous waters of reduction in 
order to constrict the expenditures and the employment here and to meet 
the goals set by the leadership. I am very pleased to have had the 
opportunity and look forward to working with them in the future.
  If there is nothing further, I suggest the absence of a quorum, Mr. 
President,
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. FORD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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