LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-NINTH CONGRESS For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office 53-700 0-86-1 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts JOSEPH P. ADDABBO, New York TOM BEVILL, Alabama BILL CHAPPELL, JR., Florida BILL ALEXANDER, Arkansas JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania BOB TRAXLER, Michigan JOSEPH D. EARLY, Massachusetts LINDY (MRS. HALE) BOGGS, Louisiana MATTHEW F. MCHUGH, New York MARTIN OLAV SABO, Minnesota VIC FAZIO, California W.G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina LES AUCOIN, Oregon DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii WILLIAM H. GRAY III, Pennsylvania BERNARD J. DWYER, New Jersey BILL BONER, Tennessee STENY H. HOYER, Maryland BOB CARR, Michigan ROBERT J. MRAZEK, New York RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois RONALD D. COLEMAN, Texas SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts LAWRENCE COUGHLIN, Pennsylvania GEORGE M. O'BRIEN, Illinois ELDON RUDD, Arizona CARL D. PURSELL, Michigan TOM LOEFFLER, Texas JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois FREDERICK G. MOHRMAN, Clerk and Staff Director (II) LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1987 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1986. Mr. FAZIO. We will now commence hearings on the fiscal year 1987 budget for the various Legislative Branch agencies under the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations. Before we begin, I would also like to identify the other Members of the Subcommittee: Dave Obey of Wisconsin, Bill Alexander of Arkansas; Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania; Bob Traxler of Michigan; Lindy Boggs of Louisiana; Jerry Lewis of California, who is our ranking minority; Sil Conte of Massachusetts, who is the ranking minority on the Full Committee; John Myers of Indiana; and John Porter of Illinois. And we have the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, Jamie Whitten of Mississippi, who is also a member of the subcommittee. The budget that we are going to consider totals $1,476,021,000. This does not include $327,040,000 in Senate items which will be considered in the other body. With the Senate included, the total budget for the Legislative Branch would be $1,803,061,000. Of the portion of this budget which will be considered by the Subcommittee, $862,718,000 is for Congressional Operations only-this is an increase of $131,168,000 over the sequestered level of $731,550,000 already enacted for fiscal 1986. We have not yet received a budget request from the Bio-Medical Ethics Board. The balance of the funds requested, which total $613,303,000, support statutory and administrative activities of the Legislative Branch which are performed for the Executive Branch and for the public at large. These activities include such agencies as the Library of Congress, Copyright Royalty Tribunal, Botanic Gardens, Government Printing Office, and the General Accounting Office. The Subcommittee will consider during these hearings the FY 1986 supplemental request of $78,833,000. REQUESTS FOR FULL FUNDING FOR FY 1987 The FY 1987 request, including Senate items, is $204 million, or 12.8 percent over the FY 1986 bill, prior to sequestration. That reflects, if I can give you my point of view, a certain reaction to the Gramm-Rudman reductions. There is a significant effort by agencies to fully fund budgets this year as a result of the effects of the imposed reduction. Our managers have requested their total needs this year including restoration of the 1986 reduction. In some |