There is a 24-hour recording available on Floor Information as a service to Members and Congressional offices. When the House is in session, the tape reflects detailed information on current chamber action, legislative bells, amendments, etc. After the Fouse adjourns for the day, the tape reviews the major actions of the day, recorded votes and quorum calls and the times at which they occurred. Leadership announcements to Members also are provided.

A 24-hour recording is also available listing items on the legislative program. When the House is in session, the tape identifies the pending business and lists the remaining program for the day and the week. After the House adjourns, the tape provides the complete program for the next session and the balance of the week. The recording also gives leadership announcements for Members.

General Information: 57350

The Republican Cloakroom can provide general information in response to office inquiries daily from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. or until the Fouse adjourns, whichever is later. The staff consists of: Manager John Tuck; Assistant Managers Tim Harroun and Max Elbin.

Incoming Calls for Members: 57350

The Cloakroom is equipped to handle incoming calls for Members who are present on the Floor or to take messages. Calls are received on a rotary system to a limited number of phone booths. A thorough search for the Member requested is

made of the House Chamber, the Speaker's Lobby and the Rayburn Room. The patience of staff is appreciated at particularly busy at times given the limited number of phones and staff as well as the time required to conduct the search. At times Members are engaged in other business and cannot respond immediately to a phone call. lessages are encouraged to keep incoming lines free. Messages are delivered to Members without delay--either when received or when the Member comes to the Floor.

Member's Outgoing Calls

The staff is available to assist Members in placing outgoing calls from the Cloakroom. Long distance calls will be charged to the Member's office unless otherwise directed by the Member.

Whip Call Alert System

A Group Alert System can be activated from the Cloakroom which rings in all Member's offices simultaneously. The system is used by the Whip to alert Members of Leadership announcements and legislative action. Inquiries regarding whip call information should be directed to the office of the Minority Whip at extension 55555 or to the Cloakroom at extension 57350. All Whip Call Group Alert information is also transmitted via the Legislative Radio System (L. R. §.). Legislative Radio System (L.R.S.)

Members who have decided to participate in the L.R.S. system are alerted immediately when the legislative bells ring for attendance in the House. The message transmitted indicates the type of vote or quorum call, the time it began and a detailed explanation of the pending issue or parliamentary situation. Members also receive information at the direction of the Republican Leadership. All Group Alert information is transmitted via the L.R.S.

Call Service

Members who must leave the House Floor area when the House is in session may arrange to be called by leaving word at the Cloakroom telephone desk. Members will be notified as directed. Members are requested to cancel the call when they have returned to the House Floor.

Bulletin Board

For the information and convenience of Members on the Floor, there is a bulletin board at the Cloakroom desk which provides up-to-date program information, summaries of amendments, times of recorded votes and quorums, leadership announcements, and other important items.

Congressional Record Material and Permission:

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The Cloakroom will arrange permission for extensions of remarks and special order speeches. Only one special order may be requested per day and may not exceed one hour in time. Copy for the Congressional Record is sent to the Cloakroom with the actual signature of the submitting Member. Material for inclusion as extensions of remarks must be received not later than fifteen minutes after adjournment. Material for the body of the Record must be received in Room H-132 no later than 9:00 p.m. unless the Fouse is in session later, in which instance staff should contact the Official Reporters of Debates at extension 55621.

Legislation for Introduction

Bills and resolutions for introduction may be sent to the Cloakroom prior to adjournment and must bear the actual signature of the principal sponsor. Should a Member desire to place a statement in the Record relative to the introduction of a bill together with the text of the bill, an extra copy of the bill must be provided. Bills should only be introduced when the Member is actually in the Washington area.

Amendments for Printing in the Record

Amendments for printing in the Congressional Record pursuant to Rule XXIII, Clause 6, may be sent to the Cloakroom after they have been signed by the Member proposing to offer them and must be received not later than fifteen minutes after adjournment. No explanatory statement may be included in the special amendment section; however, such a statement, which must be signed, may be placed elsewhere in the Record with usual permission.

PAGE SERVICE

Mr. BENJAMIN. Proceed with the next division.

Mr. MOLLOY. The next would be the page service, which we did cover, but I would be happy to go through it briefly.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Is there an examination on the page service, where there is again a disparity between the House and the Senate?

Mr. MOLLOY. Yes, there is, sir.

Mr. BENJAMIN. What is happening on that?

Mr. MOLLOY. The pages, as a result of the action of this particular committee, possibly 4 or 5 years ago were locked into a salary of $7,215, and they were frozen at that. Now the Senate was not. The Senate pages were at a higher pay scale and frozen at $9,129 per year, so there is no parity there. The difference is almost $2,000 between a Senate and House page.

I might add, by way of my personal knowledge, the duties in both chambers, and I have said this before, are similar in most cases. The duties are probably a little more intensified in the House.

Mr. BENJAMIN. I think the record shows when the salaries were frozen there were two levels of salaries. There was a level of salary for those who answered the phones, and those who ran errands. Mr. MOLLOY. Higher for 4 Page Overseers, $9,561, and $7,215 for telephone and bench Pages.

Mr. BENJAMIN. They were apparently reduced to the lowest common denominator and then frozen. Now if I understand what has happened since then, we have unfrozen it. However, we cannot take the affirmative action. It would have to be-

Mr. MOLLOY. The House Administration.

Mr. BENJAMIN. That is right. My question to you is have you gone to House Administration and asked them to reexamine this? Mr. MOLLOY. Yes, sir, we have.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Particularly in light of the Senate wages.

Mr. MOLLOY. Not in light of the Senate. We have asked them to review the whole program.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Where are we at on that?

Mr. MOLLOY. We have not gotten an affirmative response back from them. There was a gray area there in the legal end of the thing, whether this committee, by its action, put a permanent freeze on it. I had interpreted that as not. They did for that particular Congress. It was in the 94th Congress, and through just no action being taken, it held in the 95th Congress.

Mr. BENJAMIN. I would say that I concur with your analysis, we being two fine attorneys, that this was not a permanent thing. However, it apparently was interpreted as such.

Mr. MOLLOY. It was interpreted by House Administration.

Mr. BENJAMIN. But now it has been removed and I would hope that you would pursue that to at least analyze those wages for the Pages.

Mr. MOLLOY. Yes.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Do we have any questions on Pages?

NUMBER OF PAGES

Mr. MICHEL. I am just curious to know the total number.

Mr. MOLLOY. Seventy-one slots, and we have 61 on board now. That stays, the 71. It is very rare except during the summer that we use the full amount.

Mr. MICHEL. That is divided which way between parties?

Mr. MOLLOY. I do not know the figure. It is a pro-rated figure that is worked out by Personnel.

on.

Mr. MICHEL. Put that in the record.

Mr. MOLLOY. Yes, sir.

Mr. MICHEL. I have got to find out something about what is going

Mr. MOLLOY. Most of the Pages are not hired on the basis of Republican or Democrat. Most of them are not affiliated. I will try to get that figure. I understand what you are looking at.

Mr. MICHEL. Does somebody pick them out of thin air and bring them down here? I am curious as to who does that and how many choices he makes and how many choices somebody else makes.

Mr. MOLLOY. If I might expand on that, there are two personnel committees, Democratic and Republican-Mr. Rousselot on the Republican side and Mr. Moakley on the Democratic side. I will get the answer to that.

There is no set policy as to the breakdown between Democratic and Republican appointed Pages. The mix is at the discretion of Mr. Moakley and Mr. Rousselot.

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