GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTIONS-APPROPRIATIONS, ACTUAL EXPENDITURES, UNEXPENDED BALANCES

Mr. ANDERSON. For miscellaneous amounts, $672,000. These funds include gratuities paid to the widow, widower or heirs-at-law of deceased employs of the House, for which we are requesting $543,000.

And I would like to insert the rest of that material.

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Also appropriated are $74,000 for expenditures including but not limited to the purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of House motor vehicles. This represents a growth of $4,000 or approximately 5% above the amount provided in the FY '92 appropriation. Additionally, $55,000 is included for Interparliamentary Receptions as authorized by law.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS-APPROPRIATIONS, ACTUAL EXPENDITURES, UNEXPENDED BALANCES

Mr. ANDERSON. For salaries and expenses, studies and examinations of executive agencies and temporary personnel services for the Committee on Appropriations, including reimbursements to agencies for services performed, $7,990,000. And I would include the table.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS (STUDIES AND INVESTIGATIONS)-APPROPRIATIONS, ACTUAL EXPENDITURES, UNEXPENDED BALANCES

Mr. ANDERSON. The estimate for fiscal year 1993 is $92,467,000. The estimate was developed by the U.S. Postal Service using the formula established in the fiscal year 1991 Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill, in which they estimated the maximum amount to be spent. Previous estimates have been developed using historical trends. We believe the provisions established in the fiscal 1991 Appropriations Bill will change the mailing patterns, and consequently invalidate any projections based upon historical trends. Members were first provided an official mail allowance effective January 3rd, 1991. Under this allowance, we have limited experience and are at this time unable to make any accurate projections. The Finance Office will continue to monitor these trends and will keep the subcommittee apprised.

The actual billings received during the four quarters of fiscal year 1991 total $31,344,000, representing 200 million pieces of mail for the House from the U.S. Postal Service for frank mail costs incurred during the fiscal year. The total official mail allowance provided Members for calendar year 1991 is $89,781,003. The total expenditure as of November 30th, 1991, was $29,937,418.

An additional amount of $727,114 was expended for committees and other offices, for a total expenditure as of November 30, of $30,664,531 for the House for calendar year 1991.

And I would like to insert the table dealing with official mail costs.

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OFFICIAL MAIL COSTS-APPROPRIATIONS, ACTUAL EXPENDITURES, UNEXPENDED BALANCES

Mr. FAZIO. That is very important. I want to stop here for a

Clearly, we are experiencing a new environment in terms of the use of frank, and the dramatic amount that we have spent, at least it appears, although you didn't go to the last month of this analysis.

Mr. HENY. Mr. Chairman, we do not have the numbers currently available for that.

Mr. FAZIO. That is fine. It is clearly going to be sizably reduced from the estimate, which was, again, one that we really had no experience or insufficient experience with.

So I want to make it clear to everybody, particularly those gentlemen who are writing around the room, that this estimate of $92.5 million is the maximum amount that could be expended, and it would not be our intention to appropriate anywhere near that number when we mark up this bill because of an emerging pattern of usage, although we still aren't going to be sure. We have not gone through the cycle completely here of the Congress. So the number will be a good deal less than has been made available. But even that is less than we historically would have been providing. Even if we had mailed to the maximum extent, we would be mailing at a number, at a cost that would be less than we would have normally anticipated to mail under the old system.

We have made some dramatic savings in this portion of the Congressional budget, the House's budget, and in this case, certainly the overall bills, because we found this to be a growing area of expenditure, up until the time the reforms were adopted. Do you want to keep going?

SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

Mr. ANDERSON. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. For compensation and expenses of Salaries, Officers and Employees as authorized by law, $60,400,000. I shall list the amounts presently estimated for each office. The funding under this heading is principally for personnel costs, and will point out those offices which have non personnel amounts or Lump-Sum Allowances, as each request is presented. In most instances, the increases over fiscal year 1992 are for the annualized January 1st, 1992 and prorated January 1, 1993, Federal Pay Comparability Adjustments for all House employees.

Each House officer will discuss his various operations as we consider the budgeted amounts, and I would like to insert that table. [The information follows:]

SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES-APPROPRIATIONS, ACTUAL EXPENDITURES, UNEXPENDED

OFFICE OF THE CLERK

Mr. ANDERSON. My office is the first to be discussed under the general accounts "Salaries, Officers and Employees." The Clerk's Office funds proposed for fiscal year 1993 as included in the overall House budget are $27,979,000. This is $7,119,000 above the funds appropriated for the current fiscal year. This estimate is based on the salaries authorized for permanent employees in several offices, salary increases based on longevity and merit, cost-of-living raises approved for all government employees, changes in position levels and steps, a summer intern program and anticipated new employees. I shall go into detail on expected employee changes a little later.

I would like to provide for the record an organizational chart of my office.

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