Legislative Branch (113th Congress)
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Sam Farr (CA)
Betty McCollum (MN)
Jurisdiction
House of Representatives
Joint Items
Architect of the Capitol (Except Senate Items)
Botanic Garden
Capitol Police
Capitol Visitors Center
Congressional Budget Office
Government Accountability Office
Government Printing Office
John C. Stennis Center
Library of Congress
Office of Compliance
Open World Leadership Center
United States Capitol Preservation Commission
Thank you, Chairman Cole and Ranking Member Wasserman Schultz, for your hard work on this Subcommittee. While this may be the smallest of the appropriations bills, your leadership serves as an example to others of how the partisan-divide can be bridged and compromise can be reached. I look forward to continuing my work with you and the rest of this Subcommittee.
Without Senate items, this bill to fund the operations of our nation's legislative branch is $3.326 billion, the same as 2014. While I am pleased with the overall funding level, it was my hope that after years of cuts to member representational allowances, or MRA's, we might provide a modest increase this year.
Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on President Obama's FY 2015 budget request:
"The FY2015 budget and appropriations process offers Congress its best opportunity in years to reject the politics of brinkmanship and crisis management, and instead fulfill our responsibility to invest in our future, create and protect jobs, and support services on which American families rely.
"I commend President Obama for a budget request that keeps faith with discretionary spending levels set in the Bipartisan Budget Act, yet recognizes that the federal government can and must do more to achieve significant economic goals in research, education, manufacturing, and skills training. We must reject a single-minded focus on austerity, which has unnecessarily slowed our economic recovery while starving our economic future.
2013 enacted level: $4.28 billion
2014 Committee mark: $3.23 billion (House bills do not include Senate funding)
2014 Omnibus: $4.26 billion
· $1.181 billion for the US House of Representatives, which is $42.3 million less than the 2013 enacted level and $19 million more than the post-sequester level.
· $338.5 million for the Capitol Police, which is equal to the 2013 enacted level.
· $45.7 million for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which is $2 million more than the 2013 enacted level.
· $505.4 million for the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which is roughly equal to the 2013 enacted level.
· $602.0 million for the Architect of the Capitol, which is $39.6 million more than the 2013 enacted level.