[House Report 106-685]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
106th Congress Report
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2d Session 106-685
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PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 4516, THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2001
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June 21 (legislative day, June 20), 2000.--Referred to the House
Calendar and ordered to be printed
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Ms. Pryce, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H. Res. 530]
The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration
House Resolution 530, by a nonrecord vote, report the same to
the House with the recommendation that the resolution be
adopted.
summary of provisions of resolution
The resolution provides for the consideration of H.R. 4516,
the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2001, under a
structured rule. The rule provides one hour of general debate
divided equally between the chairman and ranking minority
member of the Committee on Appropriations.
The rule waives points of order against consideration of
the bill for failure to comply with section 401(a) of
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (prohibiting consideration of
budget related legislation, as reported, providing new contract
authority that is not limited to amounts provided in
appropriations acts). The rule also waives all points of order
against provisions of the bill for failure to comply with
clause 2 of rule XXI (prohibiting unauthorized or legislative
provisions in a general appropriations bill and prohibiting
reappropriations in a general appropriations bill).
The rule makes in order only those amendments printed in
this report, which may be offered only in the order printed in
this report, may be offered only by a Member designated in this
report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the
time specified in this report equally divided and controlled by
the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to
amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for a division
of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole.
The rule allows the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole
to postpone votes during consideration of the bill, and to
reduce voting time to five minutes on a postponed question if
the vote follows a fifteen minute vote. Finally, the rule
provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
The waiver of section 401(a) of the Congressional Budget
Act is necessary because section 102 of the bill provides the
Chief Administrative Officer with new contract authority. The
waiver of clause 2 of House Rule XXI against provisions in the
bill is necessary because the bill contains at least 30
provisions which would change existing law and which are listed
in the Appropriations Committee report (H. Rept. 106-635).
committee votes
Pursuant to clause 3(b) of House rule XIII the results of
each record vote on an amendment or motion to report, together
with the names of those voting for and against, are printed
below:
Rules Committee record vote No. 111
Date: June 20, 2000.
Measure: H.R. 4516, Legislative Branch Appropriations Act,
2001.
Motion By: Mr. Frost.
Summary of Motion: To make in order the Wynn amendment to
strike section 208 of the bill which converts 84 Library of
Congress temporary employees to permanent positions.
Results: Defeated 2 to 7.
Vote by Member: Goss--Nay; Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay;
Hastings--Nay; Sessions--Nay; Reynolds--Nay; Moakley--Yea;
Frost--Yea; Dreier--Nay.
summary of amendments made in order under the rule to accompany H.R.
4516--legislative branch appropriations act, 2001
Taylor (NC)/Pastor: Manager's amendment. Changes funding
levels for the following accounts: (1) HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES--restores $7.12 million for the FY 2001 COLA
and $2.54 million for this year's projected spending level for
official expenses from the Member Representation Allowances;
restores government contributions for FY 2001 COLA throughout
the House accounts ($3.3 million); restores the COLA for other
House offices (+$2.1M) and Committees (+$2.3M); funds the new
Member orientation (+$275k) and transition costs for 107th
Congress (+$1.2M); increases Members' equipment purchase plan
(+$500K) and other items (+$1M); (2) POLICE--restores COLAs,
comparability, and longevity (+$20.4M) for the current level of
staff on board (1361 board--no RIF's.); adds 48 officers (the
June recruit class) to the current level (1361) (+$2.2M);
substitutes fence report language for attrition provision; (3)
CBO--restores funding for a 215 FTE level (+$2.3M) (attrition
will cover this, at CBO's discretion); (4) ARCHITECT--restores
COLA funding to avoid RIF's (+$5.6M); covers costs for election
year moves (+$750K); funds day-time cleaning services (+$525K);
CRS--restores CRS staff (+$5M); annualizes FY 2000 pay raise
(+$283K); funds FY 2001 pay raise (+$1.7M); provides in-grade
increases (+$600k); (6) GPO CP&B--adds $1.598M for January 2001
COLA (no attrition or no layoffs); provides funds for Inaugural
printing, telephone directories, and other miscellaneous
printing (+$1.7M); provides funds for treaties and
international agreements (+$130K) and Congressional Directory
(+$728K); (7) GPO FDLP--restores funds (+$13.6M) to maintain
documents in the Depository Program that are only available in
paper form and adds $491K for January 2001 COLA for Sup Docs.
(no attrition, layoffs, or RIFs); and (8) GAO--restores funding
to avoid RIF's but has a FY 2001 hiring freeze (+$17.4M). (10
minutes)
Camp/Roemer: Mandates that any money not spent for Members'
representational allowances for FY 2001 be deposited in the
U.S. Treasury for deficit or debt reduction. (20 minutes)
Ryan: Establishes a mechanism where all of the savings from
successful appropriations amendments which reduce or cut
funding are captured and devoted to debt reduction, unless
otherwise directed to other discretionary spending. (20
minutes)
Text of amendments made in order:
1. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Taylor of North
Carolina, or Representative Pastor of Arizona, or a Designee, Debatable
for 10 Minutes
Page 2, line 5, strike ``$749,210,000'' and insert
``$769,551,000''.
Page 2, line 8, strike ``$13,998,000'' and insert
``$14,378,000''.
Page 2, line 9, strike ``$1,711,000'' and insert
``$1,759,000''.
Page 2, line 10, strike ``$1,677,000'' and insert
``$1,726,000''.
Page 2, line 12, strike ``$2,039,000'' and insert
``$2,096,000''.
Page 2, line 15, strike ``$1,427,000'' and insert
``$1,466,000''.
Page 2, line 18, strike ``$1,065,000'' and insert
``$1,096,000''.
Page 2, line 20, strike ``$399,000'' and insert ``$410,000''.
Page 2, line 21, strike ``$744,000'' and insert ``$765,000''.
Page 2, line 21, strike ``$1,220,000'' and insert
``$1,255,000''.
Page 2, line 22, strike ``$1,315,000'' and insert
``$1,352,000''.
Page 2, line 23, strike ``$649,000'' and insert ``$668,000''.
Page 2, line 24, strike ``$1,196,000'' and insert
``$1,229,000''.
Page 3, line 8, strike ``$400,527,000'' and insert
``$410,182,000''.
Page 3, line 13, strike ``$89,896,000'' and insert
``$92,196,000''.
Page 3, line 18, strike ``$20,231,000'' and insert
``$20,628,000''.
Page 4, line 3, strike ``$86,369,000'' and insert
``$90,403,000''.
Page 4, line 7, strike ``$14,286,000'' and insert
``$14,590,000''.
Page 4, line 11, strike ``$3,596,000'' and insert
``$3,692,000''.
Page 4, line 12, strike ``$54,997,000'' and insert
``$58,550,000''.
Page 4, line 14, strike ``$24,912,000'' and insert
``$26,605,000''.
Page 4, line 16, strike ``$24,327,000'' and insert
``$26,020,000''.
Page 4, line 18, strike ``$5,760,000'' and insert
``$6,497,000''.
Page 4, line 25, strike ``$3,197,000'' and insert
``$3,249,000''.
Page 5, line 5, strike ``$1,172,000'' and insert
``$1,201,000''.
Page 5, line 13, strike ``$138,189,000'' and insert
``$141,764,000''.
Page 5, line 15, strike ``$1,960,000'' and insert
``$2,235,000''.
Page 5, line 19, strike ``$135,426,000'' and insert
``$138,726,000''.
Page 8, line 22, strike ``$70,120,000'' and insert
``$92,769,000''.
Page 8, line 22, strike ``$33,586,000'' and insert
``$45,683,000''.
Page 8, line 25, strike ``$36,534,000'' and insert
``$47,086,000''.
Page 21, line 8, strike ``$25,100,000'' and insert
``$27,403,000''.
Page 22, line 6, strike ``$41,953,000'' and insert
``$44,234,000''.
Page 22, line 11, strike ``$4,557,000'' and insert
``$5,217,000''.
Page 22, line 15, strike ``$29,685,000'' and insert
``$32,750,000''.
Page 23, line 9, strike ``$38,555,000'' and insert
``$39,151,000''.
Page 23, line 21, strike ``$66,200,000'' and insert
``$73,810,000''.
Page 24, line 11, strike ``$65,457,000'' and insert
``$69,626,000''.
Page 36, line 14, strike ``$15,133,000'' and insert
``$15,837,000''.
Page 36, line 25, strike ``$11,606,000'' and insert
``$25,652,000''.
Page 39, line 21, strike ``$351,529,000'' and insert
``$368,896,000''.
Strike section 308 (and redesignate the succeeding provisions
accordingly).
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2. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Camp of Michigan, or
Representative Roemer of Indiana, or a Designee, Debatable for 20
Minutes
Page 7, insert after line 8 the following (and redesignate
the succeeding sections accordingly):
Sec. 103. (a) Requiring Amounts Remaining in Members'
Representational Allowances To Be Used For Deficit Reduction or
To Reduce the Federal Debt.--Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, any amounts appropriated under this Act for
``HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Salaries and Expenses--Members'
Representational Allowances'' shall be available only for
fiscal year 2001. Any amount remaining after all payments are
made under such allowances for fiscal year 2001 shall be
deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction (or,
if there is no Federal budget deficit after all such payments
have been made, for reducing the Federal debt, in such manner
as the Secretary of the Treasury considers appropriate).
(b) Regulations.--The Committee on House Administration of
the House of Representatives shall have authority to prescribe
regulations to carry out this section.
(c) Definition.--As used in this section, the term ``Member
of the House of Representatives'' means a Representative in, or
a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress.
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3. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Ryan of Wisconsin, or a
Designee, Debatable for 20 Minutes
At the end (before the short title), insert the following new
section:
SEC. 311. SPENDING ACCOUNTABILITY LOCK-BOX.
(a) Establishment of Ledger.--(1) Title III of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the
end the following new section:
``spending accountability lock-box ledger
``Sec. 316. (a) Establishment of Ledger.--The chairman of the
Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives and the
chairman on the Committee on the Budget of the Senate shall
each maintain a ledger to be known as the `Spending
Accountability Lock-box Ledger'. The Ledger shall be divided
into entries corresponding to the subcommittees of the
Committees on Appropriations. Each entry shall consist of three
components: the `House Lock-box Balance'; the `Senate Lock-box
Balance'; and the `Joint House-Senate Lock-box Balance'.
``(b) Components of Ledger.--Each component in an entry shall
consist only of amounts credited to it under subsection (c). No
entry of a negative amount shall be made.
``(c) Credit of Amounts to Ledger.--(1) In the House of
Representatives or the Senate, whenever a Member offers an
amendment to an appropriation bill to reduce new budget
authority in any account, that Member may state the portion of
such reduction that shall be--
``(A) credited to the House or Senate Lock-box
Balance, as applicable; or
``(B) used to offset an increase in new budget
authority in any other account;
``(C) allowed to remain within the applicable section
302(b) suballocation.
If no such statement is made, the amount of reduction in new
budget authority resulting from the amendment shall be credited
to the House or Senate Lock-box Balance, as applicable, if the
amendment is agreed to.
``(2)(A) Except as provided by subparagraph (B), the chairmen
of the Committees on the Budget shall, upon the engrossment of
any appropriation bill by the House of Representatives and upon
the engrossment of Senate amendments to that bill, credit to
the applicable entry balance of that House amounts of new
budget authority and outlays equal to the net amounts of
reductions in new budget authority and in outlays resulting
from amendments agreed to by that House to that bill.
``(B) When computing the net amounts of reductions in new
budget authority and in outlays resulting from amendments
agreed to by the House of Representatives or the Senate to an
appropriation bill, the chairmen of the Committees on the
Budget shall only count those portions of such amendments
agreed to that were so designated by the Members offering such
amendments as amounts to be credited to the House or Senate
Lock-box Balance, as applicable, or that fall within the last
sentence of paragraph (1).
``(3) The chairmen of the Committees on the Budget shall,
upon the engrossment of Senate amendments to any appropriation
bill, credit to the applicable Joint House-Senate Lock-box
Balance the amounts of new budget authority and outlays equal
to--
``(A) an amount equal to one-half of the sum of (i)
the amount of new budget authority in the House Lock-
box Balance plus (ii) the amount of new budget
authority in the Senate Lock-box Balance for that
subcommittee; and
``(B) an amount equal to one-half of the sum of (i)
the amount of outlays in the House Lock-box Balance
plus (ii) the amount of outlays in the Senate Lock-box
Balance for that subcommittee.
``(4) Calculation of Lock-Box Savings in Senate.--For
purposes of calculating under this section the net amounts of
reductions in new budget authority and in outlays resulting
from amendments agreed to by the Senate on an appropriation
bill, the amendments reported to the Senate by its Committee on
Appropriations shall be considered to be part of the original
text of the bill.
``(d) Definition.--As used in this section, the term
`appropriation bill' means any general or special appropriation
bill, and any bill or joint resolution making supplemental,
deficiency, or continuing appropriations through the end of a
fiscal year.
``(e) Tally During House Consideration.--The chairman of the
Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives shall
maintain a running tally of the amendments adopted reflecting
increases and decreases of budget authority in the bill as
reported. This tally shall be available to Members in the House
of Representatives during consideration of any appropriation
bill by the House.''.
(2) The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of the
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 315 the
following new item:
``Sec. 316. Spending accountability lock-box ledger.''.
(b) Downward Adjustment of Sections 302(a) and (b)
Allocations.--(1) Section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
``(6) Adjustment of allocations.--Upon the
engrossment of Senate amendments to any appropriation
bill (as defined in section 316(d)), the amounts
allocated under paragraph (1) to the Committee on
Appropriations of each House upon the adoption of the
most recent concurrent resolution on the budget for
that fiscal year shall be adjusted downward by the
amounts credited to the applicable Joint House-Senate
Lock-box Balance under section 316(c)(2). The revised
levels of new budget authority and outlays shall be
submitted to each House by the chairman of the
Committee on the Budget of that House and shall be
printed in the Congressional Record.''.
(2) Section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is
amended by adding at the end the following new sentence:
``Whenever an adjustment is made under subsection (a)(6) to an
allocation under that subsection, the Committee on
Appropriations of each House shall make downward adjustments in
the most recent suballocations of new budget authority and
outlays under this subparagraph to the appropriate
subcommittees of that committee in the total amounts of those
adjustments under section 316(c)(2). The revised suballocations
shall be submitted to each House by the chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations of that House and shall be printed
in the Congressional Record.''.
(c) Periodic Reporting of Ledger Statements.--Section
308(b)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by
adding at the end the following new sentence: ``Such reports
shall also include an up-to-date tabulation of the amounts
contained in the ledger and each entry established by section
316(a).''.
(d) Downward Adjustment of Discretionary Spending Limits.--
The discretionary spending limits for new budget authority and
outlays set forth in section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, shall be reduced by the
amounts set forth in the final regular appropriation bill for
that fiscal year or joint resolution making continuing
appropriations through the end of that fiscal year. Those
amounts shall be the sums of the Joint House-Senate Lock-box
Balances for that fiscal year, as calculated under section
302(a)(6) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. That bill or
joint resolution shall contain the following statement of law:
``As required by section 311(d) of the Legislative Branch
Appropriations Act, 2001, for fiscal year [insert appropriate
fiscal year], the adjusted discretionary spending limit for new
budget authority is reduced by $ [insert appropriate amount of
reduction] and the adjusted discretionary limit for outlays is
reduced by $ [insert appropriate amount of reduction] for the
fiscal year.''. Section 306 shall not apply to any bill or
joint resolution because of such statement. This adjustment
shall be reflected in reports under sections 254(f) and 254(g)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985.
(e) Effective Date.--
(1) In general.--This section and the amendments made
by it shall apply to all appropriation bills making
appropriations for fiscal year 2001 or any subsequent
fiscal year.
(2) Retroactive application.--In the case of any
appropriation bill engrossed by the House of
Representatives before the date of enactment of this
section, the Director of the Congressional Budget
Office, the Director of the Office of Management and
Budget, and the Committees on Appropriations and the
Committees on the Budget of the House of
Representatives and of the Senate shall, within 10
calendar days after that date of enactment, carry out
the duties required by the amendments made by this
section that occur before that date of enactment.
(3) FY2001 allocations.--The duties of the Director
of the Congressional Budget Office and of the Committee
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
pursuant to this Act and the amendments made by it
regarding appropriation bills for fiscal year 2001
shall be based upon the revised section 302(a)
allocations in effect upon the date of engrossment of
this Act by the House of Representatives.
(4) Definition.--As used in this section, the term
``appropriation bill'' means any general or special
appropriation bill, and any bill or joint resolution
making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing
appropriations.