Mr. ANDREWS. You need a little language a transfer?

Mr. RAIDEN. Yes, language to permit the transfer up to a sufficient amount from the mileage and expense account.

Mr. ANDREWS. If I read correctly, from page 2 of the committee print, the increased amount necessary for life insurance contributions is $21,500?

Mr. RAIDEN. Increase, yes.

Mr. ANDREWS. And your mileage was overestimated by about $20,000! Mr. RAIDEN. $20,000. Due to certain vacancies that we have in the salary account during the year we can absorb, I am sure, the $1,500 without difficulty.

Mr. ANDREWS. You ask that the mileage and expense allowance ap propriation be continued at $200,000?

Mr. RAIDEN. For this appropriation, in order to have the funds to take care of the increased contributions.

Mr. JENNINGS. No. It will be transferred. The total amount is all right.

Mr. ANDREWS. You are asking that the appropriation for mileage be decreased from $200,000 to $170,000?

Mr. RAIDEN. The figure is $190,000 for mileage.

Mr. ANDREWS That would include insurance contributions; would it not?

Mr. RAIDEN. That would include it, but to read the figure properly. it would be $170,000 for mileage.

Mr. JENNINGS. You see, the budget was submitted to the Bureau of the Budget in October and that is when the various officers make their request and this was not included at that time because this was not effective until the first of the year.

Mr. ANDREWs. The staff can work out the details.

OFFICE OF THE ENROLLING CLERK, SALARIES

Mr. ANDREWS. On page 2, under the Office of the Enrolling Clerk, I notice the salary of the Assistant Enrolling Clerk is somewhat higher than the salary of the Enrolling Clerk. How does that come about?

Mr. JENNINGS. Mr. Chairman, that comes about by reason of the fact we have a new Enrolling Clerk and, under the Classification Act, longevity is a factor for those who have been here for years, plus the fact there was a grandfather clause in the act that said no employee would be reduced as a result of the act. So these people who were aboard at that time who were making more money were not reduced. But by the same token, since we have a new Enrolling Clerk, the As sistant Enrolling Clerk who has more longevity would be placed in a higher category than the new Enrolling Clerk.

Mr. ANDREWS. Both salaries are set by law?

Mr. JENNINGS. Yes.

Mr. ANDREWS. You show the salary of the Enrolling Clerk as $12923.52, and the salary of the Assistant Enrolling Clerk is $14,604.92 Mr. JENNINGS. Yes.

Mr. ANDREWS. That is due to the longevity that the Assistant Enrol ing Clerk has accumulated?

Mr. JENNINGS. Yes, sir; that is correct. Of course, I would por out that does not include salary increases that will come about t 1st of July under the Pay Act.

SALARY INCREASE EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1968

Mr. ANDREWS. Does your request before the committee take into consideration the salary increases that will occur the 1st of July? Mr. JENNINGS. No, sir; not in July.

Mr. LIVINGSTON. We do not know what they will be. The Speaker has to approve the formula.

Mr. ANDREWS. So if you do have a substantial salary increase, you may come back for something else?

Mr. JENNINGS. It is possible.

CLERK'S DOCUMENT ROOM

Mr. ANDREWS. You list at the bottom of page 2 the Clerk's document room. Where is that located?

Mr. JENNINGS. The Clerk's document room is located in the basement of the Cannon Building.

Mr. ANDREWS. Specifically, what does that document room do? Mr. JENNINGS. Specifically, they go around and pick up excess Congressional Records and distribute them to Members who would like to have more. They distribute the green bounds and the hardbound copies of the Congressional Record and render a lot of service that in my opinion is overlapping, to some extent, of other functions in the House of Representatives.

Mr. ANDREWS. Do you recommend that it be closed?

Mr. JENNINGS. No, sir; I do not recommend that it be closed, but I very frankly recommend that a real good look be taken at many of these functions, some of which are overlapping.

Mr. ANDREWS. I thought we asked you to do that last year and report to us this year.

Mr. JENNINGS. Mr. Chairman, I can look at those functions that come under my jurisdiction, but the document room of the House comes under the Doorkeeper. The Clerk's document room is required to keep certain records, and we keep them, but I am satisfied there are overlapping functions between the Congressional Record clerk, the House document room and the Clerk's document room.

Mr. ANDREWS. We are talking now about the Clerk's document room. It has four positions.

Mr. JENNINGS. Yes.

Mr. ANDREWS. It is located in the Cannon Building?

Mr. JENNINGS. Yes.

Mr. ANDREWS. Where is the Doorkeeper's document room?

Mr. JENNINGS. In the Capitol.

Mr. ANDREWS. And you think there is a duplication of effort beween those two offices?

Mr. JENNINGS. There is a duplication of effort but each carries on function that the other does not carry on.

Mr. ANDREWS. Do you have any figures as to the amount or extent to hich your document room is utilized by Members and the committees? Mr. JENNINGS. Yes, sir.

Mr. ANDREWS. What are they?

Mr. JENNINGS. It is utilized quite extensively. For instance, they eliver the Congressional Records to the Members' offices. I have forotten the exact number each Member gets, but if there are surplus pies they will send and pick them up and if another Member needs

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