Mr. MILLER. Air-conditioning and finishing a small storage space for the book section. That is in the Longworth House Office Building and that was to cost $11,000.

The first three items mentioned, Mr. Chairman, were to be advertised, bids asked for and received, and the lowest bidder was to get the contract.

ADDITIONAL STORAGE SPACE

Now, item 4 would provide for two additional storage rooms in the Rayburn House Office Building down around the garage area. The Architect of the Capitol would do that at an estimated cost of $2,840. Mr. ANDREWs. Do it with his own staff?

Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir.

Mr. ANDREWS. Is that right where the railroad ends? They are working on some space down there.

Mr. MILLER. No, sir, we wouldn't get that choice space, no, sir. Ours would be way back on the southwest corner of the building down in one of the areaways where you gentlemen are parking now. No car space will be lost. It is some dead-end space there that they have lying idle, which is more suitable.

Mr. ANDREWS. What else did they authorize for you?

Mr. MILLER. Well, sir, isn't that enough? That is $171,240 all at one afternoon's meeting. I thought that was a pretty good meeting. Mr. ROBERTS. There is one item, Mr. Chairman, that is not in the budget.

Mr. ANDREWS. None of this is in the budget?

Mr. ROBERTS. No.

Mr. MILLER. No, sir, this is authorization.

FOLDING MACHINES AND OPERATORS

Mr. ROBERTS. But these are positions that have been authorized that are not in the budget.

Six machine operators

Mr. ANDREWs. What kind of machines?

Mr. ROBERTS. For the folding and inserting machines in the Doorkeeper's Office.

Mr. ANDREWS. Do you have the machines now or will you have to buy them?

Mr. ROBERTS. These are in operation now.

Mr. ANDREWS. I know, but you are talking about machines.

Mr. MILLER. We have most of the machines. We have the inserting machines. We have some folding machines. They are to order seven pieces of machinery for us, some additional inserters, two inserters I believe it is, four additional folders, one work loading machine and one machine that will take care of mailing properly at a high rate of speed.

Mr. ANDREWS. Who authorized that new equipment?

Mr. MILLER. The Subcommittee on House Administration dealing with electrical equipment. It then comes to the full committee. Mr. ANDREWS. Has it been authorized yet or just recommended by the subcommittee?

Mr. MILLER. It has been authorized and ordered, I am told, by the clerk of the committee, Mr. Julian Langston.

Mr. ANDREWS. But there is no money in this budget for that equipment?

Mr. MILLER. I haven't been so advised. The Clerk has that.

Mr. ROBERTS. None for the equipment.

And also this $35,558, that is not included in the budget either. Mr. ANDREWS. The eight positions.

Mr. ROBERTS. $35,558. Those are authorized but there is no money in the budget in this amount.

FOLDING WORK DONE BY GPO

One other item, Mr. Chairman, in order to help out the Doorkeeper. This is a bill I received from the Government Printing Office for $55,000 for folding and inserting that we sent down to the GPO to help alleviate that situation last winter.

Mr. ANDREWS. You sent work from your shop over to GPO?

Mr. ROBERTS. That is right.

Mr. MILLER. We got permission from the Speaker, the minority leader and the Committee on House Administration, directing the Clerk and the Doorkeeper to get together and move this mountain of material.

Mr. ANDREWS. Has that bill been paid?

Mr. ROBERTS. No, sir.

Mr. ANDREWS. Are you requesting money in this budget to pay it?

Mr. ROBERTS. Oh, no.

Mr. ANDREWS. How will it be paid?

Mr. ROBERTS. It will be paid out of the contingent fund. It will have to be paid out of the 1966 contingency fund for the Clerk. Mr. ANDREWS. And you have had payment authorized? The payment of it has been authorized?

Mr. ROBERTS. We requested the work to be done and it has been finished and they have sent us a bill for it.

Mr. ANDREWS. There is nothing before this committee with reference to this bill?

Mr. ROBERTS. No, that is just an explanation to show what the critical situation was in the Doorkeeper's office.

Mr. ANDREWS. What about your wastepaper program?

OVERTIME PAY

Mr. MILLER. Mr. Chairman, may we get one more lick at the folding room? If we would have had the privilege and opportunity to have a lump-sum payment for overtime payment of our people, either hire extra people to come in or employ those who are already on the payroll, we would not have had to have such an enormous sum of money to repay for this work at the Government Printing Office.

Mr. ANDREWS. You think you could have done that work cheaper than GPO did it?

Mr. MILLER. Almost 60 percent; yes, sir.

TRASH DISPOSAL

Mr. ANDREWS. Now, will you tell us about your wastepaper program?

Mr. MILLER. I am ready, Mr. Chairman.

On February 23, 1965, the Rayburn House Office Building opened. We were hoping when it opened that we would have a baling machine that had not been installed when we opened. We have to truck about 45 or 50 wagonloads of trash out each morning from the Members' wastepaper baskets-for which we are thankful because Uncle Sam gets a lot of money for that-and at the same time it enables us to have our trash moved out of the Capitol, out of the House wing of the Capitol, the Cannon Office Building, the Longworth House Office Building, the Rayburn House Office Building, and get paid for it at the same time.

The last entry we had in our last year's hearing was of March 1965, and at that time we were getting 80 cents a hundred pounds. When we had to advertise for bids and accept a new one, we suffered a little bit of loss there; we had a reduction down to 71 cents a pound, but overall we have received from April 1965 through March 1966, 2,876,721 pounds of waste material out of the three House Office Buildings and the House wing of the Capitol.

The Doorkeeper has received checks totaling $20,361.68 which he in turn received, sent by a letter covering, to the Clerk of the House, who in turn has sent them to the Treasury and he has entered them into the general fund of the Treasury.

Mr. ANDREWs. That amount for 1 year's sales?

Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir. April 1965 through March 1966.

We had our biggest month in March 1965, when we had the new Rayburn Office Building open on February 23. We had a total amount of wastepaper to be moved, 358,140 pounds.

Mr. ANDREWs. What month was that?

Mr. MILLER. That was March 1965. At that time we were getting 57.8 cents per hundred pounds. They furnished the baling wire; they pick it up 6 days a week. They pick it up sometimes two, three, four times a day, and they mail us a check by the 10th of each month. Mr. ANDREWS. That seems like a mighty good arrangement.

Mr. MILLER. They are getting something out of this too because there are quite a few good pieces of paper sent to you Members of Congress inviting you to support certain legislation. After you have seen the copies of the reports and everything, you have no storage space in your office and in turn you have to dispose of that by putting it in your wastebasket and we in turn get the benefit of the lobbying from the people back home.

Mr. ANDREWS. Are there any questions for the Doorkeeper?

NEW POSITIONS

Mr. LANGEN. First, let me see if I can understand the relationship of the new positions as identified on page 21. To begin with, I understood these are the new positions that were added during the last year, but there were eight more than listed here, is that correct? Mr. ROBERTS. That is right.

Mr. LANGEN. So there would be a total of 34?

Mr. GIBSON. That is right.

Mr. LANGEN. Now, what does it mean when it says "New positions not included in the budget?"

Mr. ROBERTS. It came into being since we made up the budget. That is the eight I am talking about. The others are included.

Mr. LANGEN. There is a note on page 21 which says "New positions not included in the budget."

Mr. GIBSON. For 1966. When they printed it they forgot to include it in the heading. It says "New positions not included in 1966." Mr. LANGEN. But they are included in the 1967 budget?

Mr. GIBSON. Yes, sir.

Mr. LANGEN. And then there are eight additional not included in the 1967 budget; is that correct?

Mr. GIBSON. That is right. They were just authorized last month. Mr. LANGEN. I thought that needed clarification because it might leave the impression that these 26 were not in the 1967 budget. That refers to 1966 really.

TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES

Mr. MILLER. Mr. Langen, I believe also we have a worksheet with job titles as temporary messengers. We have to have a number for each job that we have now and the Committee on House Administration has allowed us to have 15 temporary messengers and that is not carried in the budget because that was just given to us shortly after the Easter recess.

Mr. LANGEN. So that in addition to these employees we have been talking about, you also have temporary employees; 15? Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir.

Mr. LANGEN. Did you have them last year?

Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir, and they were discontinued.

Mr. LANGEN. And now they are coming back again?

Mr. MILLER. The committee has seen fit to aid us and has given us the privilege to advise the Committee on Personnel, which is our patronage committee, that they have 15 jobs. "Please fill them for us so we can get the work out."

Mr. LANGEN. And they will be employed during the 3 summer

months?

Mr. MILLER. Not necessarily during the 3 summer months. As long as we have to have them. Until after the election more than likely. Until after all the heavy work of the folding room is over.

Mr. LANGEN. How long did you have them last year?

Mr. MILLER. Through the end of October.

Mr. LANGEN. Until Congress adjourned, I suppose, or thereabouts? Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir.

WORKLOAD PROBLEMS

Mr. LANGEN. With the revisions and new authorizations that you have received regarding the folding room, including the equipment and recommended improvements, is that going to leave you in a position now so that you can care for what you anticipate the demands will be during this year or will there be further problems?

Mr. MILLER. Mr. Langen, if we could open the so-called machine and be allowed to work on an overtime basis, when that material starts coming in heavy, without having to wait even 1 minute or 1 day or 1 hour, we could meet these problems and not have any big problems to confront us at the time like we did last fall. But, under this new Classification Act, we are not allowed to do anything unless we are told to by the Committee on House Administration.

Now, the Committee on House Administration has been mighty fine as far as the Doorkeeper is concerned. He has had no requests turned down as yet. He puts it in writing, goes before the Subcommittee on Accounts, explains his position, the Subcommittee on Accounts will act either favorably or unfavorably, they will bring it before the full committee and before long we either get it or we don't get it.

Mr. LANGEN. So, actually, a part of your problem that you experienced in quite some magnitude last year might have been alleviated had you not been handicapped by virtue of not being able to use overtime

Mr. MILLER. When we had a lump sum of $300,000.

Mr. ROBERTS. We never had that trouble until the Reclassification Act was enacted. Since then all these problems have developed. Mr. LANGEN. The Reclassification Act

Mr. ROBERTS. It is to blame for the whole mess.

Mr. LANGEN (continuing). Has had its result in terms of the delays and the storage problems?

Mr. ROBERTS. We never had any problem before.

Mr. MILLER. When we had a lump sum for folding, inserting, and sealing documents in the House folding room, we had a $300,000 sum and we were allowed to use our discretion and hire on overtime or an hourly basis and pay our people and we were working around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in order to keep up with the requests you gentlemen send to the Publications and Distribution Service. But now we don't have any lump sum like that. We don't have any way to get to that unless some of you gentlemen do see fit to send a huge amount of material down to us. It gets clogged up. Then you have to see your colleagues on the Committee on House Administration; he has to see his committee: then you have to get the Speaker and the majority leader and that is the way it has to be handled.

It was handled that way last fall and has been handled that way this spring.

If we could get that lump sum creation again, I believe we wouldn't have any problem to confront us like having to pay out almost a double figure to the Government Printing Office in comparison to our figure.

Mr. LANGEN. As I understand, the problem part of it comes about because of the variation in the workload that comes by, maybe we can call it season

Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir; we like that word; that is a good word.

Mr. LANGEN. So that prior to the Reclassification Act you could then adjust to that seasonal workload?

Mr. MILLER. That is correct.

Mr. LANGEN. You could do it better by means of overtime and extra employees, if necessary.

Mr. MILLER. I think the figure at the Government Printing Office is approximately $3.58 an hour. We were paying $2.18. We were get