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Senate Office Buildings

Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Estimate

SENATE OFFICE BUILDINGS MISSION STATEMENT

The Architect of the Capitol is charged by law with the structural, mechanical, and domestic care of the Senate Office Buildings (Russell, Dirksen, Hart, leased space at Postal Square, Capitol Police Headquarters, Webster Hall, Senate Employees Child Care Center, and the Senate Garage), including operation of the mechanical equipment. The Architect is also responsible for the care, repair, and purchase of furniture and furnishings. (Furniture and furnishings for the Senate side of the Capitol are under the jurisdiction of the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms.) The Architect is responsible for the heating, air conditioning, and lighting of the Senate Office Buildings as well as for all construction, structural improvements, and changes. The Architect is also responsible for the maintenance and operation of the subway transportation systems between the Senate Office Buildings and the Capitol, and for the garages in Dirksen, and Hart, plus the Senate Garage.

The Superintendent of the Senate Office Buildings, under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, is responsible for the day-to-day structural, mechanical, and domestic care of the Senate Office Buildings complex, including the operation of the following divisions: Air Conditioning, Cleaning (Night), Day Labor, Night Labor, Electrical, Elevator, Furniture, Garage, Inventory Management, Masonry, Painting and Finishing, Pipefitting-Plumbing, Sheet Metal, Subway, Upholstery, and Wood Crafting. The Superintendent is also responsible for the operation of the Senate Gymnasium. pengues, eg with scope

The Russell Senate Office Building contains approximately 425 offices and committee rooms, together with storage rooms, shops, electrical transformer stations, and subway, and was occupied March 5, 1909, with the exception of the First Street Wing which was added

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Senate Office Buildings

Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Estimate

and occupied in 1931-33. The Dirksen Senate Office Building contains approximately 500 offices and committee rooms, together with storage rooms, shops, cafeteria, auditorium and telephone exchange, and was accepted for beneficial occupancy October 15, 1958.

The "Old Building" was designated as the "Richard Brevard Russell Office Building" and the "New Building" as the "Everett
McKinley Dirksen Office Building" by Senate Resolution 296, 92nd Congress, agreed to October 11, 1972. Senate Resolution 525, 94th
Congress, stipulated that upon completion, the extension to the Dirksen Building be known as the "Philip A. Hart Office Building." The
Hart Office Building, which was fully occupied in 1983, houses fifty Senators plus committees and support groups. Senate Resolution
295, 96th Congress, made technical changes in the names of the buildings by adding the word "Senate" prior to "Office."

The Architect performs his duties in connection with the Russell Senate Office Building under authority of the Act of June 8, 1942
(56 Stat. 343); in connection with the Dirksen Senate Office Building under authority of the Act of June 25, 1948 (62 Stat. 1029); and in
connection with the former Immigration Building, under authority of the Act of June 8, 1974 (88 Stat. 206); in connection with the Hart
Senate Office Building under authority of the Act of October 31, 1972 (86 Stat. 1510), in connection with the Senate Garage under
authority of Public Law 97-276 (96 Stat. 1186), in connection with leased space at Postal Square under authority of Sec. 107 of Public Law
101-520 (104 Stat. 2254), and in connection with the Daniel Webster Senate Page School and Residence under authority of Public Law
102-330, as amended.

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•Includes Obligations from Prior Year "No Year" Authority.

54,363

63.795

66,628

2,833

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