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                Including Members' Clerk Hire, Official

                 Expenses of Members, and Official Mail

    For Members' representational allowances, including Members' clerk 
hire, official expenses, and official mail, $385,279,000.

                          Committee Employees

                Standing Committees, Special and Select

    For salaries and expenses of standing committees, special and 
select, authorized by House resolutions, $89,743,000: Provided, That 
such amount shall remain available for such salaries and expenses until 
December 31, 2000.

                      Committee on Appropriations

    For salaries and expenses of the Committee on Appropriations, 
$19,373,000, including studies and examinations of executive agencies 
and temporary personal services for such committee, to be expended in 
accordance with section 202(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 
1946 and to be available for reimbursement to agencies for services 
performed: Provided, That such amount shall remain available for such 
salaries and expenses until December 31, 2000.


                     salaries, officers and employees

    For compensation and expenses of officers and employees, as 
authorized by law, $89,991,000, including: for salaries and expenses of 
the Office of the Clerk, including not more than $3,500, of which not 
more than $2,500 is for the Family Room, for official representation 
and reception expenses, $15,365,000; for salaries and expenses of the 
Office of the Sergeant at Arms, including the position of 
Superintendent of Garages, and including not more than $750 for 
official representation and reception expenses, $3,501,000; for 
salaries and expenses of the Office of the Chief Administrative 
Officer, $57,211,000, including $24,282,000 for salaries, expenses and 
temporary personal services of House Information Resources, of which 
$23,074,000 is provided herein: Provided, That of the amount provided 
for House Information Resources, $7,130,000 shall be for net expenses 
of telecommunications: Provided further, That House Information 
Resources is authorized to receive reimbursement from Members of the 
House of Representatives and other governmental entities for services 
provided and such reimbursement shall be deposited in the Treasury for 
credit to this account; for salaries and expenses of the Office of the 
Inspector General, $3,953,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office 
of General Counsel, $840,000; for the Office of the Chaplain, $133,000; 
for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Parliamentarian, 
including the Parliamentarian and $2,000 for preparing the Digest of 
Rules, $1,106,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Law 
Revision Counsel of the House, $1,912,000; for salaries and expenses of 
the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the House, $4,980,000; for 
salaries and expenses of the Corrections Calendar Office, $799,000; and 
for other authorized employees, $191,000.


                         allowances and expenses

    For allowances and expenses as authorized by House resolution or 
law, $136,468,000, including: supplies, materials, administrative costs 
and Federal tort claims, $2,575,000; official mail for committees, 
leadership offices, and administrative offices of the House, $410,000; 
Government contributions for health, retirement, Social Security, and 
other applicable employee benefits, $132,832,000; and miscellaneous 
items including purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair and operation 
of House motor vehicles, interparliamentary receptions, and gratuities 
to heirs of deceased employees of the House, $651,000.


                            child care center

    For salaries and expenses of the House of Representatives Child 
Care Center, such amounts as are deposited in the account established 
by section 312(d)(1) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1992 
(40 U.S.C. 184g(d)(1)), subject to the level specified in the budget of 
the Center, as submitted to the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives.

                       Administrative Provisions

    Sec. 101. (a) Section 2(a) of House Resolution 611, Ninety-seventh 
Congress, agreed to November 30, 1982, as enacted into permanent law by 
section 127 of Public Law 97-377 (2 U.S.C. 88b-3), is amended--
        (1) by adding ``and'' at the end of paragraph (1);
        (2) by striking ``; and'' at the end of paragraph (2) and 
    inserting a period; and
        (3) by striking paragraph (3).
    (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect 
to the One Hundred Sixth Congress and each succeeding Congress.
    Sec. 102. Subsection (b) of the first section of House Resolution 
1047, Ninety-fifth Congress, agreed to April 4, 1978, as enacted into 
permanent law by section 111 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations 
Act, 1979 (2 U.S.C. 130-1(b)), is amended by striking ``$55,000'' and 
inserting ``$80,000''.
    Sec. 103. (a) There is hereby established an account in the House 
of Representatives for purposes of carrying out training and program 
development activities of the Republican Conference and the Democratic 
Steering and Policy Committee.
    (b) Subject to the allocation described in subsection (c), funds in 
the account established under subsection (a) shall be paid--
        (1) for activities of the Republican Conference in such 
    amounts, at such times, and under such terms and conditions as the 
    Speaker of the House of Representatives may direct; and
        (2) for activities of the Democratic Steering and Policy 
    Committee in such amounts, at such times, and under such terms and 
    conditions as the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives 
    may direct.
    (c) Of the total amount in the account established under subsection 
(a)--
        (1) 50 percent shall be allocated to the Speaker for payments 
    for activities of the Republican Conference; and
        (2) 50 percent shall be allocated to the Minority Leader for 
    payments for activities of the Democratic Steering and Policy 
    Committee.
    (d) There are authorized to be appropriated to the account under 
this section for fiscal year 1999 and each succeeding fiscal year such 
sums as may be necessary for training and program development 
activities of the Republican Conference and the Democratic Steering and 
Policy Committee during the fiscal year.
    Sec. 104. (a) Section 311(e)(2) of the Legislative Branch 
Appropriations Act, 1991 (2 U.S.C. 59(e)(2)) is amended--
        (1) by adding ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (B);
        (2) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``; and'' and inserting a 
    period; and
        (3) by striking subparagraph (D).
    (b) Section 311(e) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 59e(e)) is amended by 
striking paragraph (4).
    Sec. 105. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or any other 
rule or regulation, any information on payments made by the Committee 
on Standards of Official Conduct of the House of Representatives to an 
individual for attendance as a witness before the Committee in 
executive session during a Congress shall be reported not later than 
the second semiannual report filed under section 106 of the House of 
Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act (2 
U.S.C. 104b) in the following Congress.
    Sec. 106. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Committee on House Oversight may prescribe by regulation appropriate 
conditions for the incidental use, for other than official business, of 
equipment and supplies owned or leased by, or the cost of which is 
reimbursed by, the House of Representatives.
    (b) The authority of the Committee on House Oversight to prescribe 
regulations pursuant to subsection (a) shall apply with respect to 
fiscal year 1999 and each succeeding fiscal year.
    Sec. 107. (a) The Speaker, Majority Leader, and Minority Leader of 
the House of Representatives are each authorized to appoint and fix the 
compensation of one consultant, on a temporary or intermittent basis, 
at a daily rate of compensation not in excess of the per diem 
equivalent of the highest gross rate of annual compensation which may 
be paid to employees of a standing committee of the House.
    (b) This section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 1999 and 
each succeeding fiscal year.
    Sec. 108. Any amount appropriated in this Act for ``HOUSE OF 
REPRESENTATIVES--Salaries and Expenses--Members' Representational 
Allowances'' shall be available only for fiscal year 1999. Any amount 
remaining after all payments are made under such allowances for such 
fiscal year shall be deposited in the Treasury, to be used for deficit 
reduction.


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