LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1999 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Livingston, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees. EDWARD E. LOMBARD, Staff Assistant PART 2 FISCAL YEAR 1999 LEGISLATIVE BRANCH Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Livingston, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 KF 27 A654 1998 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS BOB LIVINGSTON, Louisiana, Chairman JOSEPH M. MCDADE, Pennsylvania JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois RON PACKARD, California CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina DAVID L. HOBSON, Ohio ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan JAY DICKEY, Arkansas JACK KINGSTON, Georgia DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia DAVID E. SKAGGS, Colorado NANCY PELOSI, California ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES, California JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts CARRIE P. MEEK, Florida DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina ROBERT E. CRAMER, JR., Alabama JAMES W. DYER, Clerk and Staff Director LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1998. Mr. WALSH. We will now commence our hearings on the 1999 budget for various legislative branch agencies under the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Legislative Appropriations. Before we begin, I would like to welcome the Members of the subcommittee. We have the same membership as we had in the first session of the 105th Congress with one exception. The Members are, in addition to myself, for the Majority: Bill Young of Florida; Duke Cunningham of California, who has been designated Vice Chairman; Zach Wamp of Tennessee; and Tom Latham of Iowa. And Tom is here with us this morning. Thank you, Tom, for coming. For the Minority: Congressman José Serrano of New York is the Ranking Minority Member. Welcome back. Good to see you. Vic Fazio of California. And also the change is Steny Hoyer of Maryland will be replacing Marcy Kaptur of Ohio. We will miss Marcy, and we welcome Steny. We have the Chairman of the full Committee on Appropriations, Bob Livingston of Louisiana; and Dave Obey, Ranking Minority Member of the full committee from Wisconsin. They are also Members of the subcommittee. The subcommittee jurisdiction-I will insert in the record at this point the current jurisdiction of the subcommittee, which has been established under the rules of the Committee on Appropriations. [The information follows:] |