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of manpower, recruiting and training officers, who desire to be members of the Canine Corps.

Mr. LANGEN. So it is more the availability of manpower than it is the availability of the dogs for a dog team that causes this problem? Chief POWELL. Yes, sir.

Mr. LANGEN. I believe that is all, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. ANDREWS. Dr. Reifel?

COMPLIMENTS TO SERGEANT AT ARMS

Mr. REIFEL. I just want to compliment the Sergeant at Arms and his people for the most courteous kind of treatment, whether it is in the bank or other places. I realize that you do supervise under some handicaps because quite often you have such turnover in personnel, that the Chief and you, Mr. Johnson, have continual problems of supervision. In spite of all this, I think you do a fine job. I just want to take this opportunity to compliment you and I am sure the other members of the committee join me in this.

NUMBER OF POLICE ON HOUSE SIDE

Mr. ANDREWS. How many members of the Capitol Police force do you have House side?

Chief POWELL. We have 18 privates, 6 sergeants, 4 lieutenants, and 1 special officer.

Mr. ANDREWS. Do you have any vacancies?

Chief POWELL. Yes, sir; we have about 11 vacancies for privates at this time.

OFFICE OF THE DOORKEEPER

Mr. ANDREWS. Now we will take up the Doorkeeper.

I want to say that the Doorkeeper was recently signally honored by his native State of Mississippi. He was selected as having been "the outstanding Mississippian of the year," so for 1966 he was "Mr. Mississippi" down there.

Mr. ROBERTS. Office of the Doorkeeper, $1,753,00 compared with $1,663,745 appropriated for 1966, or an increase of $89,255.

We are requesting this increase to carry out the provisions of the Federal Employees Salary Act of 1965 ($14,575) and the remainder ($74,680) was due to the creation of new positions, longevity increases, upgrading of existing positions, and increase for House wage schedule employees pursuant to the House Employees Position Classification Act.

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Mr. ANDREWS. With the exception of the new positions, all these other increases are mandatory?

Mr. ROBERTS. Yes, sir.

Mr. ANDREWS. How many new positions have been created?

Mr. ROBERTS. Twenty-six.

Mr. ANDREWS. What are the total number of employees on the Doorkeeper's payroll?

Mr. ROBERTS. 303.

Mr. ANDREWS. You are asking for 26 new employees for 1967?
Mr. ROBERTS. That is right.

Mr. ANDREWS. They are already in the 303?

Mr. GIBSON. This shows the increases due to the House Classification Act since May 1, 1965.

Mr. ROBERTS. The positions being paid out of the miscellaneous items at the present time are shown in the chart on page 21 but it is classified. There are eight more positions than are listed on page 21. Mr. ANDREWS. Supply the eight. Give us a breakdown on that. Mr. GIBSON. It is broken down between the six machine operators and the two baling machine operators in the publications distribution service.

Mr. ROBERTS. Six machine operators and two baling machine oper

ators.

Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Roberts, you state that the remainder of the increase, $74,680, is for new positions, upgradings, and so forth, but the schedule of new positions in your statement shows that new positions alone add to $124,417, or considerably more than the $74,680. How can that be? Will you reconcile the two?

Mr. GIBSON. The Clerk's formal statement of the amount appropriated for the Doorkeeper for fiscal year 1966 includes the amount of $43,745 authorized in the supplemental appropriation bill. In a comparison of the 1966 appropriation with the 1967 estimate, it will be seen that the amount of $43,475 carried in the supplemental bill was used in the comparative figure in the Clerk's formal statement for 1966. Since this amount was used in the comparative figure, it is clear that the amount of the increase reflected in the Clerk's formal statement should be increased by that amount in order to make it comparable to the amount carried in the new positions table. The small difference is accounted for by the operation of the House Employees Classification Act.

Mr. ANDREWs. How about vacancies?

Mr. GIBSON. Vacancies we would put in also and show the annual salaries because we feel they will be filled during the fiscal year and we have to authorize the money.

Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Miller, tell us about the need for these additional jobs.

Mr. MILLER. Mr. Chairman, thank you for letting me be here this morning. It is nice to come before the committee to take care of our housekeeping chores and see what you gentlemen want, see what you need and see what you want us to do about it.

FOLDING ROOM

The folding room is one of our places of business that, in all probability, uses more personnel than any other department under the Doorkeeper. At the present time we are working full schedules. We are staying pretty well up to the limit with our machines and our manpower and we feel that with the machines that have been ordered and will be installed that we will be able to handle the influx of material which is due to come sometime late this summer and early fall.

Mr. ANDREWS. What about the folding room? What is the backlog situation?

Let me read this before you answer. We received a letter from one Member who stated:

Please permit me to recommend that your committee consider the abolition of the folding room activity as operated under the jurisdiction of the Doorkeeper. If the total folding room budget is $270,000 a year, divided among the 435 members of the House, it would aggregate $620 per member. The recent congestion in the folding room has made it entirely worthless for my office purposes. Unless material is folded and cleared in an expeditious manner, it loses a great part of its value.

Since the first of January, I have not used the folding room at all and have instead relied on outside contractors who have done my work at astonishingly attractive prices.

If the stationery allowance were increased by $500 per year in lieu of folding room services, a sum of almost $100,000 could be saved from current legislative appropriations.

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Now, this Member was complaining about congested conditions in the corridors between the folding rooms, offices, and workspace. I wish you would comment on that.

Mr. MILLER. Not only in the corridors by the House folding room which is now known as the publications and distribution service, but also in the corridors of the Cannon Office Building and at one time in the Longworth Building itself, and also leading from the circle of the Cannon Office Building toward the Capitol.

At one time I went down there and counted as many as 257 skids of material to be handled.

Last fall we were behind as much as 13 to 15 million pieces of material to go out. We have had the assistance of the Clerk of the House; we had the assistance of the Committee on House Administration, and we have this thing pretty well caught up now.

Last week we had a meeting with the House Office Building Commission and they in turn have allowed us to have some renovations made so we can have some more space. When that was granted last week, the Committee on House Administration has gone ahead and ordered the necessary machinery to put into effect a place for more material to be handled.

The workload report for this year is something tremendous in my way of thinking.

Mr. ANDREWS. Increased over last year?

Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir.

Mr. ANDREWS. Do you find that true every election year?

Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir; and it seems to me like the medium of getting the material to the Members so that they in turn can inform the people back home is becoming more popular. During the first 4 months of this year we had 113,043,135 units of material handled in our operation down there at the folding room.

Mr. ANDREWS. How many employees do you have in the folding room?

Mr. GIBSON. Approximately 100.

Mr. ANDREWS. Are you asking for increased personnel in the folding room for this budget?

Mr. MILLER. The Committee on House Administration has granted us, on a temporary basis, 15 messengers to help take care of this workload situation.

Mr. ANDREWS. Of course, you have no control over the volume of work that goes into the folding room.

Mr. MILLER. No, sir; I have not. Whatever you Members send to us, we try to work it as expeditiously as possible and get it back to you as you have requested us to do it.

Mr. ANDREWS. Do you have anything else you would like to tell the committee about the operation of your office?

OVERTIME WORK

Mr. MILLER. I'd like to go into the fact that when we worked under the old system of working on a temporary rate basis and overtime. work we didn't have this problem to confront us.

Now, we did come up last month sometime with a piece of good luck. The Speaker, the minority leader, the chairman of the Committee on House Administration gave us permission to work overtime.

We spent about $9,300 and almost reached the point where we got rid of the saturation and now we are working anywhere from 5 to 6 to 7 days behind on our current material. I counted the other day and we only had 63 skids, which is quite a reduction in work. Some of those skids, Mr. Chairman, are caused by the fact that the Government Printing Office follows the Members' requests and will send the envelopes over before the material to be inserted is sent and we in turn have to be the storage space.

Mr. ANDREWS. You have to take it?

Mr. MILLER. We have to accept it and keep it stored until the Member gets ready to use it.

We have promised the House Building Commission-whether we are to be a realist or an optimist; it depends on how you look at the situation-but we have promised the Building Commission, without cracking any heads whatsoever, that we would have the hallway cleared up within a short period of time and that no people who come to visit their Congressmen and happen to get down on the basement level of the Cannon Office Building or the Longworth Office Building, or even to the Capitol for that matter, will be confronted with the unsightly packaging of skids that we have to store in the hallways.

Mr. ANDREWS. Just what did the Building Commission recently authorize for you?

ADDITIONAL SPACE

Mr. MILLER. They authorized us, sir, to have a-we had a meeting on May 4 with the Chairman of the Building Commission, the Honorable John W. McCormack, our beloved Speaker, the Honorable Emanuel Celler, who is the ranking Democratic member of the commission, and the Honorable Charles Goodell, the Republican member of the Commission from New York, and those three listened to the plea of the Doorkeeper and his assistant, with the assistance of the Architect of the Capitol, Mr. Stewart and his assistant Mr. Campioli, and they allowed us to have:

1. A new space for machine unit, Longworth House Office Building. Mr. ANDREWS. Where would that space be found?

Mr. MILLER. That would be found underneath a street level, below, on New Jersey Avenue and will take about 4 to 5 months for the preparation of it.

Mr. ANDREWS. Do you have any idea about the estimated cost of that space?

Mr. MILLER. The Architect has estimated it to cost about $86,800.

AIR CONDITIONING

2. They will air-condition the finishing of the manual processing unit, Longworth House Building at a cost of $16,600.

Mr. ANDREWS. None of your space is air-conditioned in the workroom?

Mr. MILLER. Some is and some is not, but the majority is not. We still have the good old manmade electric fans that blow the air and keep it circulating to the best of our ability.

Mr. ANDREWs. What else?

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