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THE FUNDING REQUEST FOR NON-PERSONNEL EXPENSES FOR FY '96 IS $343,727. THE INCREASE OF $32,727 IN THIS FISCAL YEAR SUBMISSION IS ATTRIBUTED TO THE INCORPORATION OF THE FORMER DESIGNATED DOORKEEPER FUNCTIONS THAT CAME TO US WITHOUT ANY ALLOCATED NON-PERSONNEL EXPENSES. HOWEVER, HAD WE BEEN ABLE TO SHOW THE BUDGET COSTS OF THE FORMER DOORKEEPER OFFICE, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE.

THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES REFLECT THE OVERALL CHANGES IN OUR BUDGET SUBMISSION FOR NON-PERSONNEL EXPENSES:

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ANOTHER IMPORTANT AREA THAT ENHANCES OUR SECURITY EFFORTS IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW HOUSE ID SYSTEM. I HAVE REVIEWED THE CURRENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND FIND THAT LIMITED MODIFICATIONS ARE NECESSARY. IN FY '93, $265,000 WAS APPROPRIATED FOR UPGRADING WHICH COMPLETED PHASE ONE. IN FY '94 $170,000 WAS APPROPRIATED FOR PHASE TWO. NOTHING HAS BEEN APPROPRIATED FOR FY '95. WE ANTICIPATE THE NEED FOR REPROGRAMMED FUNDS UPON COMPLETION OF OUR U. S. CAPITOL SERCURITY SURVEY IN ORDER TO COMPLETE PHASE THREE.

INTEGRATION OF FORMER DOORKEEPER FUNCTIONS

I HAVE INITIATED A PLAN TO FULLY INCORPORATE THE DESIGNATED FUNCTIONS OF THE FORMER DOORKEEPER'S OFFICE. ADDITIONALLY, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING A CHAMBER SECURITY PLAN DESIGNED TO PROFESSIONALIZE THE DUTIES OF THE FORMER DOORKEEPERS RELATIVE TO CHAMBER SECURITY. I WILL ALSO IMPLEMENT A SECURITY TRAINING PROGRAM FOR AFFECTED PERSONNEL.

CONCLUSION

ONE ITEM OF SIGNIFICANT NOTE IS THE HIGH LEVEL OF COOPERATION AND DAILY COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN MYSELF AND THE SENATE SERGEANT AT ARMS, MR. HOWARD GREENE. THIS HAS GREATLY ENHANCED OUR PURSUIT OF ENHANCED SECURITY FOR THE ENTIRE CAPITOL. WE HAVE OPENED COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE SENATE SERGEANT AT ARMS AND THE CAPITOL POLICE ON A MATTER OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE TO ME A UNIFIED PAYROLL SYSTEM FOR THE CAPITOL POLICE.

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IN THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS, I WILL BE RE-EXAMINING ALL FUNCTIONS OF THE SERGEANT AT ARMS OFFICE AND CONDUCTING VARIOUS STUDIES AND ASSESSMENTS. SOME OF OUR STUDIES MAY IMPACT ON OUR CURRENT SUBMISSION AND COULD EFFECT THE NUMBERS IN THIS BUDGET PROPOSAL.

I APPRECIATE THE PRIVILEGE OF APPEARING BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE AND ASSURE YOU OF MY DESIRE TO COOPERATE AND WORK WITH YOU ON ALL MATTERS OF MUTUAL INTEREST. I WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP THE COMMITTEE INFORMED ON ALL SECURITY STUDY RESULTS AND NEEDS FOR THE COMING YEARS.

Mr. PACKARD. Thank you very, very much, Mr. Livingood, for your statement. I am particularly impressed that-if I understand you correctly in the earlier part of your statement, you have taken on additional duties as we have transferred the Doorkeeper's position into your office and under your jurisdiction, and you are still going to be able to take those additional functions and reduce the number of FTEs by, what was it, 11?

Mr. LIVINGOOD. Yes, sir, that is correct.

Mr. PACKARD. Eleven positions, for a decrease of 10 percent of the funding and 17 percent of the personnel reduction, recognizing that you would have done even better had those additional duties carried with them additional monies.

Mr. LIVINGOOD. That is correct, sir, significantly.

Mr. PACKARD. That is commendable.

Mr. LIVINGOOD. Thank you, sir.

Mr. PACKARD. Do you have any questions, Mr. Thornton?

DISTRIBUTION OF VARIOUS OFFICES

Mr. THORNTON. First of all, thank you very much for your splendid presentation and for the efforts that you are making. I applaud what you are doing.

Mr. LIVINGOOD. Thank you, sir.

Mr. THORNTON. Are you the person who can outline for me the distribution of the former functions of the Doorkeeper to the different agencies, or will there be someone else who can talk more about which duties were distributed to the Clerk, which to you, and which to the Chief Administrative Officer?

Mr. LIVINGOOD. Sir, I am only aware of the additional duties that I received. Someone else might be more qualified to speakMr. PACKARD. Mr. Faulkner, would you respond?

Mr. FAULKNER. We have a spreadsheet that we can make available to the committee.

The transition crosswalk shows that a lot of things got moved about. The Doorkeeper's salary and that chunk moved to CAO; Office of the Doorkeeper, the Offices of Photography, the House Document Room, the Radio and TV Correspondents' Gallery, the Press Gallery, all moved to CAO.

The House Floor services went into the Office of the Clerk, along with the Office of the Chief Page, House Page School, and the service group that relates to that.

The office of doormen then was moved over to the Sergeant at Arms. So were, the FTEs, budget allocations

Mr. THORNTON. Who will receive the message from the President, or announce it?

Mr. FAULKNER. The Sergeant at Arms was also the one who announced at the State of the Union.

Mr. LIVINGOOD. Yes, sir.

Mr. THORNTON. Very good.

Mr. LIVINGOOD. Under protest. I found out it was my duty. I am used to being in the background, sir.

Mr. THORNTON. How much do we save by that consolidation?

Mr. LIVINGOOD. It is difficult

Mr. THORNTON. On redistribution.

Mr. LIVINGOOD. Just from our office in personnel, we saved 17 percent, and just in funding

Mr. THORNTON. That is overall in your office.

Mr. LIVINGOOD. Just in my office. And overall, I don't know how much it is. Quite significant.

ESTIMATED SAVINGS FROM ELIMINATING OFFICE OF DOORKEEPER

Mr. THORNTON. Have you given an allocation as to what the saving is by the elimination of the Doorkeeper's office?

Mr. FAULKNER. We are still looking into that. Part of the issue here is that we also took on additional functions. The CAO's office is a brand-new entity growing mostly out of the Office of Director of Non-Legislative and Financial Services.

So we should have detailed information to the committee, probably by the 1st of March.

Mr. THORNTON. Because there are additional duties, we should not be looking so much for savings as for a more effective operation, is that correct?

Mr. FAULKNER. More effective and more efficient. We not only draw upon Mr. Drucker but Mr. Crosby and a few others, so we have a good group of advisers.

Mr. THORNTON. Thank you very much, Mr. Faulkner.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back.

Mr. PACKARD. Thank you very much.

Mr. Dan Miller from Florida has arrived. We appreciate his attendance and welcome him.

We have with us now Mr. Livingood, who is our Sergeant at Arms, and if you have any questions of him, you are welcome to ask at this point.

I don't have any further questions. We are looking forward to working with you. We think that the restructuring is going to be an improvement. We appreciate the way that you have taken hold now. We will be having you later this afternoon.

In this afternoon's hearing, you will be accompanying our Chief of Police and be a part of the Police Board. There will be some further questions, I think, at that time relating to your other duties that relate to the coordination and the leadership over our Capitol Police.

So we will look forward to having you back before us this after

noon.

Mr. LIVINGOOD. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

FTE TRACKING SYSTEM FOR THE HOUSE

Mr. PACKARD. Thank you very much. You can be excused, then. Let me ask one question before we have Mr. Lainhart come and take his place here before the subcommittee. All the legislative agencies have a full-time equivalent employee goal to reach. Those have been set, and that includes the House of Representatives, our own body.

We, of course, have cut back significantly by cutting our committee staffs early on in this session, and that should help in meeting those goals. But are you tracking or are you planning to track those goals in all House entities to see that we are moving in the right direction?

Mr. FAULKNER. Yes, we are establishing a monthly tracking system right now.

Mr. PACKARD. I would be very interested to see if the one-third cut in the committee staff will meet our goal or if there are additional FTEs that need to be cut.

Mr. FAULKNER. We will provide all that information to you, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. PACKARD. Thank you very much.

Mr. Lainhart is here.

Mr. Fazio, I already announced when you arrived we will break into the hearing if you have an opening statement.

Mr. FAZIO. I am sure I do, but I am not going to read it into the record. What I thought I would do is try to blend in, be as unobtrusive as I can be.

Mr. PACKARD. You have never been able to do that well.

Mr. FAZIO. I apologize for being late. The Democratic Caucus was meeting this morning on the bill that is on the Floor today. I truly apologize to you, Mr. Chairman, the Members of the committee, and certainly to those who are representing the administration of the House.

Mr. PACKARD. For your information, we have had an opening statement from our Chief Administrative Officer, and we have also heard from the Clerk's office. We just finished with the Sergeant at Arms' office. And we now have before us Mr. Lainhart, who is the Inspector General.

We want to welcome you to the subcommittee, Mr. Lainhart. If you have a statement, we would like to hear from you at this point.

OPENING STATEMENT-INSPECTOR GENERAL

Mr. LAINHART. Good morning, Chairman Packard and Members of the subcommittee. I am very pleased and honored to appear before you today as the House's Inspector General. With me today, sitting to my right and behind me is Bob Frey, my deputy.

I would like to begin my statement by expressing my gratitude to both Chairman Thomas and Mr. Fazio, as Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on House Oversight. They have provided invaluable assistance to my office helping to energize and empower the Office of Inspector General (OIG), by increasing my office from the three permanent positions to the 18 positions currently authorized and by approving our contracting with the internationally recognized independent accounting firm of Price Waterhouse to perform the first ever audit of the House of Representatives. That audit will address both the financial and operational activities of the House.

By taking that effort, the OIG is now poised to provide a full range of auditing services as envisioned by the 104th Congress in the passage of House Rule VI. I very much look forward to the challenges ahead in performing the greatly expanded responsibilities that are specified in that rule.

As you are aware, with the 103rd Congress, I was only responsible for conducting periodic audits of financial functions in the of fices of the House, whereas with the 104th Congress, I am responsible for conducting periodic audits of the financial and administrative functions of the House and joint entities. Thus, my additional

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