APPENDIX THREE H.I.S. FY 1993 BUDGET REVISION 4/06/92 Programs & Categories Reduced Appendix One (appropriation $8,615,000), shows H.I.S.'s FY 1993 budget request reduced by $1,520,000, from $22,885,000 to $21,365,000. Appendix Two (appropriation $8,787,300), reduces the FY 93 request by $1,347,700 to $21,537,300. Neither reduction could be absorbed without an extremely serious setback to H.I.S. services and programs. Except for salaries, both circumstances would show identical reductions by scaling back purchases of equipment, software, supplies, and external services. Under the smaller appropriation (Appendix One), salary expenditures would have to absorb $172,300 more than the $210,000 already reduced from the Salaries category in both Appendices. Programs and categories appropriation level would provide the following reductions: Communications $305,000. affected equally by either Training, travel, supplies and be reduced 16% below 1992 Purchases planned for all data communications support, including Wide Area Network, Ethernet, and Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) would be delayed or cancelled. Planned implementation would be reduced by 38%, thus postponing many service installations until late FY 1993 and into FY 1994. ISIS Implementation $150,000. The ISIS server implementation schedule would be scaled down, with adverse effect on MIN/ISIS client-server integration and text retrieval, and on MicroMIN development. Reduced by 25 to 30 percent, advancement of the ISIS and client-server technology would be delayed late into the next fiscal year. Clerk Systems - $90,000. Upgrades to the mainframe host for the Financial Management System (ADABAS Database Management Systems software) would be delayed; software purchases (contract programming) for Office Systems Management (OSM) development would be rescheduled. GAO TYMNET support - $70,000. GAO's common carrier data communications through H.I.S. facilities would not take place in FY APPENDIX THREE cont. Member and Committee Support $205,000. Planned upgrades to Office automation network servers, Committee Ethernet connections, Committee publications support, colorgraphics production and user training materials would be reduced by 35%. Office systems upgrades and committee communications installations would be delayed well into FY 1994. Mainframe hardware & software upgrades $190,000. Data Administration data repository, and other software upgrades will be postponed or canceled. Reductions would affect the Computer Center facility operation and possibly NCOA (National Change of Address) support requirements. and Computer Supplies - $50,000. Office Systems computer boards software upgrades deemed necessary to keep up with the technology advances in Member offices would be curtailed, along with some software evaluation plans. Salaries - $210,000 or $382,000, dependent on which appropriation amount $8,787,300 or $8,615,000. The personnel budget would be reduced $210,000 by limiting salary increases. For example, the 1993 COLA and longevity increases would be withheld from higher salaried senior staff, and the amount allocated for other salary adjustments would be approximately 20% less than in fiscal 1992. in addition to the actions stated above, To meet a $382,000 reduction, vacancies would not be filled in FY 1993, and staff leaving H.I.S. would not be replaced during the year to the extent necessary. Such a reduction in staff resources would minimize progress in the areas of: data communications, Committee Ethernet, Member district office communications; and MicroMIN support. No new MicroMIN client offices could be Mr. FAZIO. We appreciate your coming today, and if there are any other matters you wish to comment on, Mr. Chairman, take this time. Mr. ROSE. Thank you for hearing us, and if I may be excused, I would appreciate that. Mr. FAZIO. Thank you. Mr. Rose. Thank you, gentlemen. Mr. FAZIO. Donn, why don't we pick up where we left off. Mr. ANDERSON. Very well. Mr. Chairman, I think it would be appropriate at this point to insert the information pertaining to the budget request by the Committee on House Administration for HIS, and that is found on page 15. Mr. Fazio. All right. Let's do that. [The information follows:] COMMITTEE ON HOUSE ADMINISTRATION (HOUSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS)-APPROPRIATIONS, ACTUAL EXPENDITURES, UNEXPENDED BALANCES Mr. ANDERSON. For allowances and expenses, for allowances and expenses as authorized by law, $259,910,000. For official expenses of Members, $87,535,000. And I would like to insert the table there. [The information follows:] ALLOWANCES AND EXPENSES-APPROPRIATIONS, ACTUAL EXPENDITURES, UNEXPENDED BALANCES Included in this amount are the following accounts which I shall discuss individually. OFFICIAL EXPENSES OF MEMBERS For Official Expenses of Members, $87,535,000. Appropriations for this account cover the ordinary and necessary official nonpersonnel expenses which Members incur in performing their representational duties. The full authorized funding level OFFICIAL EXPENSES OF MEMBERS-APPROPRIATIONS, ACTUAL EXPENDITURES, UNEXPENDED Mr. ANDERSON. For supplies, materials, administrative costs and Federal tort claims, $24,886,000. Some of the larger items which cannot be directly charged to another allowance or authorization include payment for Members, copies of the United States Code, administrative telephone expenses, and computer reimbursements to House Information Systems for House Officers. I would like to insert the tables reflecting those figures at this point. [The information follows:] SUPPLIES, MATERIALS, ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AND FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS ANALYSIS OF SUPPLIES, MATERIALS, ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AND FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS APPROPRIATIONS, ACTUAL EXPENDITURES, UNEXPENDED BALANCES Mr. FAZIO. Donn, have we had any tort claims of any conse |