VII COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR 1978 AND THE BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR 1979-Continued Joint Committee on Taxation... 3057,386,500 +184, 638,000 +10, 328,600 +164,000 +2,000 +8,715,000 +350,000 +3,000,000 1, 164, 584, 100 $227,800 Architect of the Capital (includes $33,682,000 for Senate items). Total, program supplementals. 34, 944,000 35, 171, 800 Pay: H. Doc. 35-281 Senate House of Representatives.. Joint items. Office of Technology Assessment. Architect of the Capitol (includes $433,000 for Senate items). Botanic Garden Government Printing Office. Library of Congress.. $8,806,600 10, 236, 200 283.500 281.000 1,994,000 88, 300 3,800,000 294.136 8,980,000 16,500 36,780,236 71, 852, 036 • Reflects consolidation of the following accounts carried separately in 1978 act. Computer and related services for Merabers, $3,500,000, constituent communication expenses, $2,738,400, equipment (purchase, lease, and maintenance), $6,418,000; official experses, $3,073,000, postage stamps, $2,689 rental of district office space (private and Federal), $6,739,280, transportation for Members and staff, $3,494,000, telegraph and telephone, $10,812,500; and stationery allowances, $2,853,500. Heflects transfer of $92,689 to "Official expenses of Members". U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WITNESSES OFFICE OF THE CLERK EDMUND L. HENSHAW, JR., CLERK W. RAYMOND COLLEY, DEPUTY CLERK OFFICE OF SERGEANT AT ARMS KENNETH R. HARDING, SERGEANT AT ARMS OFFICE OF THE DOORKEEPER JAMES T. MOLLOY, DOORKEEPER JACK RUSS, DEPUTY DOORKEEPER OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER ROBERT V. ROTA, POSTMASTER C. ELMO BOYDSTON, ASSISTANT POSTMASTER WARD M. HUSSEY LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL HOUSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS BOYD L. ALEXANDER, DIRECTOR Mr. SHIPLEY. Today we will take up the budget for the House of Representatives, which totals $297,949,900 for 1979, an increase of $5,041,600 including pending supplementals, plus certain joint items totaling $70,145,900, an increase of $16,082,000, over 1978 appropriations including pending supplementals. The Clerk of the House, Edmund L. Henshaw, Jr. is with us this morning, as is Mr. Ken Harding, the Sergeant at Arms; the Doorkeeper, Jim Molloy; and the Postmaster, Robert Rota. Mr. Henshaw, we will let you go through the statement and handle it as you have in the years past. If you would like to proceed at this time, please do so and if anybody on the committee has any questions, don't hesitate to interrupt at any time. Please proceed. GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE Mr. HENSHAW. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the opportunity to be here. I am sorry to hear of your decision not to stay with us in the House, but I can appreciate that. Mr. Chairman, I appear before the Subcommittee this morning to outline for you the fiscal year 1979 Budget Estimates for the House of Representatives and certain joint items disbursed by the House for both the Senate and the House. I shall also briefly summarize the program and pay supplemental estimates that are pending for the current fiscal year. These estimates have been prepared in cooperation with the affected House offices and the staff of the Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations. Mr. Chairman, may I say that I appreciate the interest and cooperation of this Subcommittee. I especially want to commend the work of your staff assistants, Earl Silsby and Americo Miconi. I understand Earl will be retiring this year and I would like to wish him luck in his future endeavors. At the same time we are looking forward to working with Mr. Edward Lombard, who has recently joined the Subcommittee. Appearing with me today are the Deputy Clerk, W. Raymond Colley, and the Chief of the Office of Finance, John Lawler, together with one of his assistants, Mike Heny and his accounting supervisor, Jenny Cashdollar. BUDGET ESTIMATES The fiscal year 1979 House estimates submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) total $297,949,900. This is an increase over appropriations for the current fiscal year of approximately $15.3 million. When the "Joint Items" disbursed by the Clerk of the House are included, the total is $368,095,800, an increase of about $31.7 million. Mr. Chairman, the increase over the current fiscal year is not quite as high as it first appears. The figures utilized for fiscal year 1978 do not include pending supplemental appropriations requests totaling $10,578,300. These funds are for a program supplemental for the Joint Committee on Taxation and the 7.05 percent pay increase granted to employees of the House October 1, 1977. We are endeavoring, at the suggestion of your Subcommittee staff, to produce a single source of budget language, spending histories, amounts requested, and legislative authorities. We believe you will find this year's Subcommittee Print to be your primary reference book. As we discuss each line item and subcategory you will find the appropriate page numbers where each is listed in the Subcommittee Print. As in the past, a schedule of our estimates and the appropriated amounts for up to ten prior years follows the proposed language of the present bill in the Subcommittee Print. The Subcommittee Print also contains schedules depicting both personnel and non-personnel spending levels for fiscal year 1977, fiscal year 1978, (based on November 30, 1977 figures) and of course, our fiscal year 1979 estimates. From time to time, I will refer to the Subcommittee Print for annualized expenditure levels and statistical information based on data as of September 30, and November 30, 1977. TABLES AND SCHEDULES OF CHANGES IN ESTIMATES, AND PAY RAISES Mr. HENSHAW. I would like to place in the hearing record, Mr. Chairman, as has been customary, certain tables. One is a listing of the various appropriations for fiscal year 1979 showing the increase or decrease over the present fiscal year. The other is a table showing all of the pay raises received by the House employees from 1945 through October 1, 1977. I would like to place those tables in the hearing record at this time. Mr. Chairman, I would like to take up the leadership at this time, and then move into the Clerk's Office, and then we can take up all the items relating to the Office of the Sergeant at Arms, if that would be all right with the Chair man. [The information referred to follows:] |