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Legislative Branch Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011 S. HRG. 111–609 LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 3799 AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2011, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES Architect of the Capitol (except House items) Congressional Budget Office Government Accountability Office Government Printing Office Library of Congress Office of Compliance United States Capitol Police U.S. Senate Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations ( Available via the World Wide Web: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 54–980 PDF WASHINGTON : 2010 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, http://bookstore.gpo.gov. For more information, contact the GPO Customer Contact Center, U.S. Government Printing Office. Phone 202–512–1800, or 866–512–1800 (toll-free). E-mail, [email protected]. COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii, Chairman ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia THAD COCHRAN, Mississippi PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont CHRISTOPHER S. BOND, Missouri TOM HARKIN, Iowa MITCH MCCONNELL, Kentucky BARBARA A. MIKULSKI, Maryland RICHARD C. SHELBY, Alabama HERB KOHL, Wisconsin JUDD GREGG, New Hampshire PATTY MURRAY, Washington ROBERT F. BENNETT, Utah BYRON L. DORGAN, North Dakota KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON, Texas DIANNE FEINSTEIN, California SAM BROWNBACK, Kansas RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois LAMAR ALEXANDER, Tennessee TIM JOHNSON, South Dakota SUSAN COLLINS, Maine MARY L. LANDRIEU, Louisiana GEORGE V. VOINOVICH, Ohio JACK REED, Rhode Island LISA MURKOWSKI, Alaska FRANK R. LAUTENBERG, New Jersey BEN NELSON, Nebraska MARK PRYOR, Arkansas JON TESTER, Montana ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania CHARLES J. HOUY, Staff Director BRUCE EVANS, Minority Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH BEN NELSON, Nebraska, Chairman MARK PRYOR, Arkansas LISA MURKOWSKI, Alaska JON TESTER, Montana THAD COCHRAN, Mississippi DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii (ex officio) (ex officio) Professional Staff NANCY OLKEWICZ RACHELLE SCHROEDER (Minority) SARAH WILSON (Minority) Administrative Support TERI CURTIN (II) CONTENTS THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010 Page U.S. Senate: Office of the Secretary ...................................................................................... 1 Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper .................................................................. 72 United States Capitol Police ................................................................................... 93 THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2010 Architect of the Capitol ........................................................................................... 133 Office of Compliance ................................................................................................ 152 THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2010 Government Accountability Office .......................................................................... 173 Government Printing Office .................................................................................... 183 Congressional Budget Office ................................................................................... 189 THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2010 Library of Congress ................................................................................................. 225 (III) LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011 THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 4:32 p.m., in room SD–138, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Ben Nelson (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Nelson, Pryor, Tester, and Murkowski. U.S. SENATE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF HON. NANCY ERICKSON, SECRETARY OF THE SENATE ACCOMPANIED BY: CHRIS DOBY, FINANCIAL CLERK SHEILA DWYER, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR BEN NELSON Senator NELSON. The subcommittee will come to order. Good afternoon, everyone and welcome. I apologize for the start of this afternoon being different than scheduled, but sometimes the call of Senate business for votes hops in the way of what we were other- wise planning to do. So thank you for your indulgence. We meet this afternoon to take testimony on the fiscal year 2011 budget request for the Secretary of the Senate, the Senate Sergeant at Arms, and the U.S. Capitol Police. This is our first hearing of fiscal year 2011, and once again, I look forward to working closely with my good friend and ranking member, Senator Murkowski, and the other members of the subcommittee, Senator Pryor and Senator Tester. I understand Senator Pryor will be joining us here shortly. I think we had four very productive budget hearings last year, and it is my hope that we can continue that trend again this year. Having said that, I must say that I am very concerned that the subcommittee has, once again, been presented with a fairly large budget request for fiscal year 2011. The 2011 budget request for the legislative branch totals $5.1 billion, an increase of $466 mil- lion, or 10 percent, over the current year. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we really do need to reduce these numbers, but the fact is that this country remains in economic turmoil and the American taxpayers simply will not tolerate increased Govern- ment spending at a time of such significant high levels of unem- ployment. (1) 2 Last year, we received an overall increase of 5 percent in the leg- islative branch, including some large-ticket items for the House, over which we clearly have no control. But I hope that we will not be seeing an increase of that magnitude this year. In fact, I have stated repeatedly that I am going to do everything I can to hold the legislative branch flat this year. I think we really do need to lead by example with this subcommittee and we cannot do that by appropriating large increases to our agencies. The President sent the message very loud and clear in his State of the Union Address this year noting that families across the country are tightening their belts and making tough decisions. The Federal Government must do the same he said, and he announced a 3-year freeze on nonsecurity discretionary Government spending. The President said ‘‘Like any cash-strapped family, we will work within a budget to invest in what we need and sacrifice what we don’t.’’ And he went on further, ‘‘If we do not take meaningful steps to rein in our debt, it could damage our markets, increase the cost of borrowing, and jeopardize our recovery, all of which would have an even worse effect on our job growth and family incomes.’’ So with that having been said, I am happy today to introduce and welcome our three witnesses, Nancy Erickson, Secretary of the Senate; Terrance Gainer, the Senate Sergeant at Arms; and Phillip Morse, the Chief of the Capitol Police. I first want to acknowledge the dedication and work of all of you and your staffs. The Senate worked many late nights into early mornings, right up to the holidays this year, and even during our record snowfall this winter, your staff, all of them, did an excep- tional job of maintaining the services that we rely on here in the Capitol environs. We are grateful to each and every one of them and to you for keeping the Senate running safely and smoothly every day. To the extent it was not smooth, it was not your fault. Ms. Erickson, we are pleased to have you here this afternoon, and I look forward to hearing your testimony. Among many others on your staff, I want to acknowledge Chris Doby of the Disbursing Office for his fine work in balancing the books for the Senate. It is no easy task, but he and his team do a great job and we appre- ciate their dedication and commitment to this institution. For fiscal year 2011, your office is requesting a total of $60.2 mil- lion, which is an increase of $32.4 million, or a little over double your fiscal year 2010 amount. Now, I understand that the bulk of this increase, to be clear, $32 million, is a result of the transfer of the Senate information services to your office from the Senate Ser- geant at Arms where it is currently funded. So I look forward to hearing more about the specifics of your budget request and how we might fund this transition over several years as opposed to funding it perhaps as much as we are asked to in fiscal year 2011. Chief Gainer, the Sergeant at Arms request for 2011 totals $240 million, a 7 percent increase over fiscal year 2010, and I realize that your request includes several big-ticket items as well for the Senate community which are expensive, but I look forward to work- ing with you to identify what our true needs are, both in terms of salaries and expenses to maintain our current services. Terry, I 3 want to personally thank Skip Rouse and Grace Ridgeway of your office for their outstanding service to this subcommittee. And finally, Chief Morse, I understand you have recently resub- mitted your fiscal year 2011 budget request based on your first quarter review of fiscal year 2010 expenditures. The fiscal year 2011 request totals $385 million which is an increase of $57 mil- lion, or 17 percent, over the enacted fiscal year 2010 level. This in- cludes a request for 52 additional officers and 12 civilians. Chief Morse, I understand that your quarterly review also identi- fied some miscalculations in your fiscal year 2010 appropriation, which obviously is somewhat disturbing, and I look forward to dis- cussing this with you just a little bit later. It seems that your
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