Mr. ANDREWS. Do you have an unexpended balance in this account? Mr. JENNINGS. No, sir, except the colloquy we have carried on here that would remain available. Mr. ANDREWS. Any questions about the stationery fund? Mr. LANGEN. No questions. Mr. ANDREWs. Proceed. POSTAGE STAMPS Mr. JENNINGS. For airmail and special delivery postage stamp allowances for the first session of the 91st Congress for the official use of each Member and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, each standing committee of the House, the Speaker, the majority and minority leaders, the majority and minority whips, and officers of the House, as authorized by law, $320,390; compared with $228,550 appropriated for 1968, or an increase of $91,840. This is the amount authorized by House Resolution 1003. Mr. JENNINGS. Yes, sir. Mr. ANDREWS. What does the resolution provide? Mr. JENNINGS. A copy is supplied for the record here. (The information follows:) H. Res. 1003 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S., DECEMBER 14, 1967 Resolved, That effective January 3, 1968, (a) in addition to postage stamps authorized to be furnished under any other provision of law, until otherwise provided by law, the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall procure and furnish United States airmail and special delivery postage stamps (1) to each Representative and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico serving as such on and after the date of adoption of this resolution, in an amount not exceeding $200 and (2) to each standing committee of the House of Representatives, upon request of the chairman thereof, in an amount not exceeding $120. (b) In addition to postage stamps authorized under any other provision of law, unless otherwise provided by law, the Speaker, the majority and minority leaders, and the majority and minority whips of the House of Representatives shall each be allowed United States airmail and special delivery postage stamps in an amount not exceeding $180, and the following officers of the House of Representatives shall each be allowed such stamps in the amounts herein specified as follows: The Clerk of the House, $320; the Sergeant at Arms, $240; the Doorkeeper, $200; and the Postmaster, $160. (c) There shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House of Representatives such sums as may be necessary to carry out this resolution. Attest: Clerk. Mr. ANDREWS. What it did, if I remember correctly, is increase the amount of postage stamps allocated to each member. that is movable comes under the Clerk of the House. There are ex tions, the venetian blinds and rugs and so forth, and electrical thing But I found in 1966 we paid $6,483.60 for ice, in 1967 we paid $6,159 for ice, and I found I could buy an ice machine for each of the three bu ings for $12,777.44. And I did. So far in the year of 1968, we have only spent $1,000. But in 199 we should not spend anything, or very, very little, and the reason this was spent was because the ice machines were not installed and this represents the expenditures back in those months at the beginning of the year before we started using the machine. Mr. ANDREWS. You have stopped buying ice now? Mr. JENNINGS. Yes, except on special requests and special occasions As a result, we are getting a cube of ice now that is much more usable and we do not have the waste. Mr. ANDREWS. What do you use that ice for? Mr. JENNINGS. It is used in the committees around the committe tables and for the witnesses. It is used in the dining rooms and it used in the individual Members' offices, such as the one you have righ on the table at this time. Mr. LANGEN. Any savings of that kind are certainly timely and arpropriate and ought to be made, and I commend the Clerk for ar savings he accomplishes in any and all of the services that are supplied Mr. ANDREWS. And you stopped buying ice from outside. You make the ice that is used here for ice water in committee rooms and in the dining rooms? Mr. JENNINGS. Yes, sir. Our last purchase of ice was November 8, 1967, and that was $229.80. Mr. ANDREWS. It had been running $6,000 a year? Mr. JENNINGS. In excess of $6,000 a year. Mr. ANDREWs. The Clerk is to be commended. Mr. LANGEN. He certainly is. Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Langen has another question he wants to a about savings you have been responsible for. WALL CALENDARS Mr. LANGEN. What about the wall calendars that have been sur plied to the Members? Can you tell us about this? Mr. JENNINGS. Yes, sir. This was something that was really getting out of hand through perhaps no fault of anyone. Last year in 1967spent a total of $48,960 for wall calendars. It represented 90,00€ of them and cost us 54.4 cents each. In our cleaning out operation it w not uncommon to find stacks of calendars that were not used. As a matter of fact, it was not uncommon to have Members of Congre place them outside and in our baling operation we would find the wh section of calendars that were a year old. This year I went before the House Administration Committee this. It was becoming quite a problem to me to determine who got wh. You would have requests for 1,500, 5,000, 200, there was no rule follow. So I asked the House Administration Committee to give r some direction and to pass some rules whereby everyone would only be treated alike, but it would bring some direction to this. have a total expenditure this year for calendars of $36,270. That resents a total of 71,431 calendars. We were able to get the cost d # to 40 cents each rather than 54 cents each; 25,603 of those calendars went to the stationery room and were paid out of stationery accounts, individual Members bought them, which means this year, rather than passing out 90,000 calendars, we passed out 45,828 for use around the Capitol. The cost was $25,844 instead of $48,960, for a total savings of $23,116. Mr. LANGEN. You are to be complimented. I am sure you found the distribution and satisfaction of everybody concerned was better served, too. Mr. JENNINGS. I do not know. I might have to take issue with that particular statement as far as the distribution and satisfaction is concerned. Mr. ANDREWS. Did you get many complaints? Mr. JENNINGS. Yes, sir; I got any number of complaints. As a matter of fact, I thought it was going to be reversed on several occasions. (Discussion off the record.) Mr. ANDREWS. Proceed, Mr. Clerk. REPORTING HEARINGS Mr. JENNINGS. For stenographic reports of committee hearings, other than special and select committees, $223,000. This is the same as ppropriated in 1968. We have no way of knowing exactly what will be used. However, ou will notice in 1966 we requested the same amount, we had $46,000 ft over. In 1967 the same amount, we had $51,000. As of February 9, we had spent $97,723.10, which leaves a balance of $125,276.90. I think based on past history, although we have been showing oughly $50,000 a year less, the business has increased as more and ore committee hearings are ordered and reported. Mr. ANDREWS. This is a matter over which you have no control? Mr. JENNINGS. Absolutely none. Mr. ANDREWS. There have been no changes in this appropriation nount for several years, but I know you have had a rather subantial unexpended balance in each of the last 2 years, and you forest about the same unexpended balance at the end of this year. Mr. JENNINGS. Based only on the expenditures to date and past ars. Mr. ANDREWS. Proceed, please. SPECIAL AND SELECT COMMITTEES Mr. JENNINGS. For the information of the committee, we submit r the record a tabulated statement showing the various committee. vestigations authorized during the 90th Congress, as if February 1968. This statement shows the total amounts authorized, the ounts expended, and the unexpended balances. The committee should take into consideration that the authorizations are on a sessio or term basis, whereas the appropriations are on a fiscal year basis. The total authorized for the 90th Congress as of February 29, 19 totals $8,288,400. SPECIAL AND SELECT COMMITTEES.-90TH CONG., JAN. 3, 1967, THROUGH FEB. 29, 1968 Committees Amount authorized Amount expended 83.372 ava able Agriculture (Congressman Poage, Texas, chairman), H. Res. 83, Feb. 21, Armed Services (Congressman Rivers, South Carolina, chairman), H. Res. Banking and Currency (Housing) (Congressman Patman, Texas, chair- District of Columbia (Congressman McMillan, South Carolina, chairman), Education and Labor (Congressman Perkins, Kentucky, chairman), H. Full committee. No. 1, Special Subcommittee on Education (Congressman Green, No. 2, Special Subcommittee on Labor (Congressman Thompson, No. 3, Select Subcommittee on Labor (Congressman Holland, Pennsylvania)... 54, 019.00 41.98 No. 4, General Subcommittee on Labor (Congressman Dent, Pennsylvania).. 38,08 No. 6, Select Subcommittee on Education (Congressman Daniels, No. 5, General Subcommittee on Education (Congressman Pucinski, Foreign Affairs (Congressman Morgan, Pennsylvania, chairman), H. Res. Interior and Insular Affairs (Congressman Aspinall, Colorado, chairman), Judiciary (Congressman Celler, New York, chairman), H. Res. 40, Feb. 21, Post Office and Civil Service (Congressman Dulski, New York, chairman), Public Works (Congressman Fallon, Maryland, chairman), H. Res. 203, Feb. Science and Astronautics (Congressman Miller, California, chairman), Ways and Means (Congressman Mills, Arkansas, chairman), H. Res. 266, 50,000.00 6.056.56 18.982.73 43 C This chart shows each committee, what was authorized, the amount of expenditures and the balances available. Mr. ANDREWS. All of these special and select committees were authorized by law or House resolution? Mr. JENNINGS. Yes, sir. Mr. ANDREWS. Proceed. Mr. JENNINGS. For the fiscal year 1966, $4,600,000 was appropriated or made available and $4,156,535 was expended; for the fiscal year 1967, $4,690,000 was appropriated or made available and $4,250,407 was expended; for the fiscal year 1968, $4,690,000 was appropriated or made available and through February 29, $2,865,282 was expended. We are requesting, for the fiscal year 1969, $4,865,000 compared with $4.690.000 appropriated for 1968 or an increase of $175,500. Of the $4,690,000 appropriated for 1968, we have expended $2,865,282 through February 29, leaving a balance of $1,824,718. This figure, of course, does not take into consideration expenses or obligations that these various committees have incurred prior to March 1, 1968, and which have not yet been submitted for payment. Mr. ANDREWS. Your regular appropriation, as you pointed out, for 1968 is $4,690,000. What is the pending pay supplemental? Mr. JENNINGS. For the special and select committees, $131,625. Mr. ANDREWS. If you get that amount in the supplemental, will you have a balance in this account at the end of the year? Mr. JENNINGS. I have no way of knowing. NEED FOR INCREASE Mr. ANDREWS. Is the increase requested more or less solely for the annualization of the pay increase last fall or are there increased authorizations other than for pay that you have to reckon with? Mr. JENNINGS. There are some of both. Mr. ANDREWS. What are the total authorizations for the 90th Congress, both sessions? Mr. JENNINGS. I am not sure I can get the appropriations on a session basis because these appropriations are made on the year basis of the session. COMPARISON OF TOTAL AUTHORIZATIONS Mr. ANDREWS. Give us the total authorizations for the record, going ack several years. Mr. JENNINGS. In the first session of the 90th Congress as a matter of comparison, it was $4,948,000. Mr. ANDREWS. Authorization? Mr. JENNINGS. Yes, $4,948,000. In the second session we have had 4.565.400. We show actually a decrease of $383,000. Since March 1, 1968, additional authorizations have been made to the overnment Operations Committee of $550,000; Science and Astroautics, $300,000; Un-American Activities, $375,000, or a total of 1.225,000. The authorization for other congressional years, going back to 1963 or the first session of the 88th Congress, was $3,443,950. The second ession 1964, 88th Congress, was $4,668,349.62. |