SUMMARY AND JUSTIFICATION OF APPROPRIATION ESTIMATES FOR CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING, FISCAL YEAR 1980

The estimates for congressional printing and binding are to provide funds with which to pay for the cost of printing and binding required for the use of Congress.

The total amount requested for congressional printing and binding for fiscal year 1980 is $76,212,000 compared to $73,961,000 appropriated last year.

The requirements for the Congressional Printing and Binding Appropriation for fiscal year 1980 are described below by category. Detailed supportive information is provided on page II-4 for total costs, on page II-4 for rates, and on page II-5 for volume.

A. Congressional Record Program. The proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives are printed daily in the Congressional Record. Approximately 5,700 copies are printed daily and distributed for Congressional use as provided by law (44 U.S.C. 906), and are charged to the appropriation for Congressional Printing and Binding. There are also printed daily about 28,000 additional copies that are not charged to the Congressional Printing and Binding Appropriation. These copies are delivered and charged to Government departments on requisition, to the Superintendent of Documents for sale to subscribers, and to recipients as authorized by law which are paid for from the Printing and Binding Appropriation. After the close of each session, the daily proceedings are consolidated, indexed, and about 2,500 copies printed as the bound edition of the Record. About 1,500 of these sets are distributed to departments, depository libraries, public sales, and recipients other than Congress by law. An estimated 44,000 pages will be required in fiscal year 1980 and the cost will be approximately $4.7 million.

B. Miscellaneous publications.-This item includes printed matter such as the Congressional Directory, Senate and House Journals, memorial addresses of Members, nominations, United States Code and supplements, and publications not carrying a document or report number, such as laws, treaties, and similar publications. An estimated $5.7 million will be required in fiscal year 1980 for approximately 59,000 pages.

C. Committee prints.-This item includes publications printed for the internal use of committees on pending legislation. The estimate. for fiscal year 1980 is $8.4 million for 120,000 pages.

D. Miscellaneous printing and binding. This item includes letterheads, envelopes, blank paper, wall calendars, miscellaneous blank forms, and binding for both Houses. The estimate for fiscal year 1980 is $8.4 million for 170 million units.

E. Details to Congress.-This item includes the cost for employees detailed to Congress. The estimated cost for fiscal year 1980 is $5.5 million.

F. Franked envelopes and document franks.-Franked envelopes for mailing speeches and documents are furnished to Senators and Representatives, who are also furnished with franks for mailing documents, printed individually or in sheets with perforations at the option of the Member. An estimated $1.1 million will be needed in fiscal year 1980 for approximately 60 million envelopes at a cost of $1 million and 6.5 million franks at a cost of $.1 million.

G. House and Senate business calendars.-This heading covers the printing of all House and Senate committee and business calendars which list the actions on pending and completed legislation. An estimated $2.6 million will be required in fiscal year 1980 for approximately 55,000 pages.

H. Bills, resolutions, and amendments.-This heading covers the printing of bills, resolutions, and amendments in all forms, including the prints as introduced, referred, reported, and as finally passed. The estimate for fiscal year 1980 is $10.7 million for approximately 170,000 pages.

I. Committee reports.-This item covers printed reports of congressional committees on pending legislation which carry a congressional number. An estimated $4.2 million will be needed for about 45,000 pages in fiscal year 1980.

J. Documents.-This heading includes all classes of Senate and House documents ordered printed by Congress which carry a congressional number, such as annual reports, engineers' reports, special reports made by Government departments in response to resolutions, supplemental and deficiency estimates of appropriations, etc. The estimate for fiscal year 1980 is $1.7 million for about 25,000 pages.

K. Hearings. This item covers all hearings before congressional committees. The estimate for fiscal year 1980 is $23.2 million for approximately 550,000 pages.

ESTIMATED REQUIREMENTS BY CATEGORY FOR CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING APPROPRIATION AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 1978

ESTIMATED COST PER UNIT OF PRINTING AND BINDING CHARGEABLE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING APPROPRIATION AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 1978

1 This item includes printed matter such as the Congressional Directory, Senate and House Journals, memorial addresses nominations, U.S. Code and supplements, etc.

2 This item includes letterheads, envelopes, blank paper, wall calendars, miscellaneous blank forms, and binding for both Houses.

3 To arrive at the page rate of the Congressional Record program both the Congressional Printing and Binding and the Printing and Binding Appropriations must be added together because these costs are pro-rated between both appropriations, i.e. FY 1978 $347.69, FY 1979 $386.33, FY 1980-$393.36.

JUSTIFY INCREASE OVER INFLATION FACTOR

Mr. BENJAMIN. You are requesting $76,212,000, an increase of $2,251,000. How much of this increase is due to inflation? Justify the balance of the increase.

Mr. BOYLE. In the $2,251,000 increase, Mr. Chairman, we are estimating a volume decrease in most of the categories in the Congressional Printing and Binding Appropriation, but we have a labor increase and a materials increase. The materials increase is the greatest part of our increase. Right now, we have factored in paper increases for fiscal 1979 and fiscal 1980 that amount to 10 percent.

The paper market is inflated because of strikes on the West Coast, where there are 17 paper mills on strike. The mills are starting to settle now, but there are 130 paper mills whose contracts run out in the spring of this year, and we are not optimistic on the paper situation.

We buy our paper by competitive bid on a quarterly basis, and the paper increase in the last two quarters totalled somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 percent. The paper increases last year were over 40 percent, and we don't see any relief. So just our materials cost, and in some of the areas, particularly in the Congressional Record and the Federal Register that use tons of paper every day in comparison to that used on short-run jobs, we see our costs going up more than we have estimated in our appropriation requestmore than we have allowed for. So most of the increase in this category is in materials costs.

NUMBER OF COPIES OF CONGRESSIONAL RECORD

Mr. BENJAMIN. How many copies of the Congressional Record are charged to this appropriation and who receives them?

Mr. BOYLE. In the daily Congressional Record, we have 17,159 copies-well, let me correct that. To this appropriation, Congressional Printing and Binding, there are 5,667 copies charged to this appropriation. There are 17,159 charged to the Printing and Binding Appropriation. Now, to the Congressional Printing and Binding, as to who receives them, the Senate receives, by law, 218 copies; the House receives 930 copies; the Joint Committee on Printing receives 3,224 copies, and the balance of copies, by law, chargeable to this appropriation, are 1,295.

So of the total number of copies printed daily, 34,104, 5,667 copies get charged to this appropriation.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Has the volume changed much in the past few years?

Mr. BOYLE. The volume has gone down because of this committee's action two years ago, that cut the Members' copies by 50 percent in the House and the Senate. Really it was cut by more than that because with the staff work our people did, contacting every one of the committees, many of the committees and the Members of the Congress cut their number of authorized copies voluntarily below the by-law authorization. The total number of copies decreased by 15,000. We had been printing 50,000 daily. The number of pages printed which really determines the actual cost, fluctuates up and down. Every year it changes. The number of