Summary of Proceedings and Debate

The Office of Summary of Proceedings and Debate (SOPAD) was

transferred from the Committee on House Administration to the Clerk for supervision as of March 1978. The SOPAD function is to provide an ongoing digest of House Floor proceedings directly to Members' offices through computer terminals. The digested proceedings are available through the terminal in minutes of House Floor action. The results of roll call votes Use is also made of the SOPAD terminals for

are carried immediately.

the program ahead for the following day as well as anticipated amendments on a given day.

Library of the House

This facility continued in 1978 to serve as the library-of

record of the House of Representatives and, in accordance with House Rules, as the official depository of all books and printed documents generated by this legislative body. It also continued to provide reference and lending services to Members, committees and other legisla

tive branch offices.

During the year, the total number of volumes lent increased by about four percent from the corresponding number in 1977. At the same time, the library continued a policy of encouraging in-library use of holdings and/or photocopying of materials in lieu of certain kinds of lending. This policy has reduced losses and damage to the library's collection over the past several years.

For the fifth straight year, within-library usage increased reaching an all-time high in 1978 of 5,476 individuals, a gain of 9.3 percent over the 1977 figure. This unbroken trend of annual increases of inlibrary usage has continued since 1974, the year in which the present system of record-keeping and reporting was adopted. Since that time, in-library usage has nearly doubled from a 1974 figure of 2,979. As noted in previous reports, the within-library use figures represent probably the best single index of this facility's service, utility and general value to the House.

The number of Members' offices served during 1978 was 320, again the highest number yet recorded for a single year. Of the twenty-two standing committees of the House in the 95th Congress, every one made use of the library during the year, as did eight of the nine select committees

and all of the joint committees.

Also served, to the extent permissible

under House Rules and the constraints of available resources, were

numerous offices of the Senate, many executive agencies, federal courts,

etc.

The Clerk's Document Room, a branch of the Library of the House, throughout 1978 continued its major function of distributing daily issues of the Congressional Record to Members, committees and other eligible House offices. In accordance with an economy effort in 1977, the number of Record issues available for this purpose was approximately halved during that year. Nevertheless, during 1978--the first full year at the reduced volume--the Document Room distributed 91,826 copies of the Record.

The library's principal acquisition-cataloging activities during the year centered upon its committee hearings, one of the most complete and comprehensive such collections in existence. Processing was completed on several hundred volumes of hearings which continued, well into 1978, to stream in from the First Session of the 95th Congress. Approximately one thousand further volumes of House hearings held during the Second Session were received and cataloged as well; this was the largest body by far of printed hearings ever generated during a single session.

Mr. BENJAMIN. We will also include the table of organization, which you have distributed to the members, and we will allow the members to ask any questions they may have about the works of the office.

[The information follows:]

Mr. COLLEY. I would say these are internal documents; these supervisors provide the Clerk with a report of the past calendar year; they give a list of their problems and make recommendations as to what we should be doing this year. They have not been fully analyzed, and we don't know how far we will go with them, but they give good basic information on the operations of each of the departments.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Any questions from any of the Members?

If not, we will proceed.

Mr. HENSHAW. Just in the interest of some of the committee members, I might show this is the way we get them in, and they are really detailed to us in 8 or 10 pages, and anybody is welcome to take a look at these. Those are most helpful to us in making our projections as to what we need.

• Includes unexpended balances of Official Reporters of Debates and to Committees per PL 95 355. In addition, this includes a non expenditure transfer of funds ($85,000) to the Office of the Sergeant at Arms

Mr. HENSHAW. I will now submit for the subcommittee's consideration four requests under the direct control of the Sergeant at Arms, who will present detailed testimony shortly. These are the cost figures involved with his office.

COMPENSATION AND MILEAGE FOR THE MEMBERS

Mr. HENSHAW. The funds required for compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, the Delegate from the District of Columbia, the Delegate from Guam, and the Delegate from the Virgin Islands in fiscal year 1980 are $27,690,000. The estimate for mileage for fiscal year 1980 is $210,000, the same as appropriated for fiscal year 1979.

OFFICE OF THE SERGEANT AT ARMS

For salaries, including overtime for the Police, for the Office of the Sergeant at Arms, $12,951,900.

Mr. MICHEL. Is a portion of that amount for overtime?

Mr. HENSHAW. Yes, sir, I am sure it is, and the Sergeant at Arms is with us, and I am sure he will give us more information on that immediately.

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