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Senate corridors of the Capitol; Congress and provision of off-site book conservation of the Statue of Freedom storage facilities for the Library; atop the Capitol dome; completion of management oversight of the Thurgood the murals in the first-floor House Marshall Federal Judiciary Building; corridors; improvement of speech- design and construction of the National reinforcement, electrical, and fire- Garden adjacent to the U.S. Botanic protection systems in the Capitol and Garden Conservatory; restoration of the congressional office buildings; removal U.S.Botanic Garden Conservatory; and of architectural barriers throughout the planning for a proposed Capitol Visitor Capitol complex; preparation and Center. publication of a new book on the artist Constantino Brumidi, whose paintings The serves as decorate much of the Capitol; a member of the following bodies: installation of an improved Senate , Capitol Guide subway system; preparation of a Board, District of Columbia Zoning telecommunications plan for the Commission, Advisory Council on legislative branch agencies; work on Historic Preservation, National Capital security improvements within the Capitol Memorial Commission, and the Art complex; construction of new House Advisory Committee to the Washington and Senate child care facilities; Metroploitan Area Transit Authority. He construction of a new Senate Page is also an ex-officio member of the U.S. school; renovation, restoration, and Capitol Preservation Commission, the modification of the interiors and Commission on the Bicentennial of the exteriors of the Thomas Jefferson and U.S. Capitol, and the National Building John Adams Buildings of the Library of Museum.

For further information, contact the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC 20515. Phone, 202–228–1793. Internet, http://www.aoc.gov/.

UNITED STATES BOTANIC GARDEN Office of Executive Director, 245 First Street SW., Washington, DC 20024 Phone, 202–225–8333. Internet, http://www.aoc.gov/. Conservatory, Maryland Avenue, First to Second Streets SW., Washington, DC 20024 Phone, 202–225–6647 Production Facility, 4700 Shepherd Parkway SW., Washington, DC 20032 Phone, 202–563–2220

Director (Architect of the Capitol) ALAN M. HANTMAN Executive Director (VACANCY)

The Botanic Garden informs visitors about the aesthetic, cultural, economic, therapeutic, and ecological importance of plants to the well-being of humankind.

The U.S. Botanic Garden carries out its acting as a repository for endangered mission by presenting artistic displays of species; and growing plants for the plants, exhibits, and a program of beautification of the Capitol complex. educational activities; promoting Uniquely situated at the heart of the U.S. botanical knowledge through the Government, the Botanic Garden seeks cultivation of an ordered collection of to promote the exchange of ideas and plants; fostering plant conservation by information relevant to this mission

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among national and international visitors Arts and Sciences, an organization that and policymakers. was the outgrowth of an association Collections of the U.S. Botanic Garden known as the Metropolitan Society and include orchids, epiphytes, bromeliads, that received its charter from Congress carnivorous plants, ferns, cycads, cacti, on April 20, 1818. The Garden succulents, medicinal plants, rare and continued under the direction of this endangered plants, and plants valued as Institute until 1837, when the Institute sources of food, beverages, fibers, and ceased to exist as an active organization. other industrial products. The Botanic Garden remained The U.S. Botanic Garden is currently abandoned until 1842, when it became undergoing a significant expansion and necessary for the Government to provide transformation. The Conservatory, one of the largest structures of its kind in this accommodations for the botanical country, closed to the public on collections brought to Washington, DC, September 2, 1997, for a complete from the South Seas by the U.S. renovation. In addition to upgraded Exploring Expedition of 1838–42, under amenities for visitors, it will feature 12 the leadership of Capt. Charles Wilkes. new exhibit and plant display areas The collections were placed temporarily interpreting plants in their relationship to on exhibition at the Patent Office upon humankind and to the environment. The return of the expedition in June 1842. Conservatory is expected to reopen in The first greenhouse for this purpose was the year 2000, along with the National constructed in 1842 on a lot behind the Garden which is now under construction Patent Office Building under the on the 3-acre site just west of the direction and control of the Joint Conservatory. This new public facility Committee of Congress on the Library, will feature a First Ladies water garden, from funds appropriated by Congress. a formal rose garden, a showcase garden The act of May 15, 1850 (9 Stat. 427), displaying the outstanding native plants provided for the relocation of the of the Mid-Atlantic region in naturalistic Botanic Garden under the direction of settings, and the Senator John Heinz the Joint Committee on the Library. The Environmental Learning Center. site selected was on The Mall at the west Outdoor plantings are showcased in end of the Capitol Grounds, practically Bartholdi Park, a home landscape the same site the Garden occupied demonstration area. Each of the displays during the period it functioned under the is sized and scaled for suitability in an Columbia Institute. This site was later urban or suburban house site. The enlarged, and the main area continued gardens display ornamental plants that to serve as the principal Botanic Garden perform well in this region arrayed in a site from 1850 to 1933, when the variety of styles and themes. Also Garden was relocated to its site. located in this park is Bartholdi Although the Botanic Garden began Fountain, created by Frederic-Auguste functioning as a Government-owned Bartholdi (1834–1904), sculptor of the institution in 1842, the records indicate . The Botanic Garden makes available that it was not until 1856 that the many rare and interesting botanical maintenance of the Garden was specimens for study to students, specifically placed under the direction of botanists, and floriculturists . In addition the Joint Committee on the Library and to educational programs and special a regular, annual appropriation was exhibits, a horticultural hotline is provided by Congress (11 Stat. 104). available to answer questions from the At the present time the Joint public. Committee exercises its supervision The U.S. Botanic Garden was founded through the Architect of the Capitol, who in 1820 under the auspices of the has been serving as Acting Director Columbian Institute for the Promotion of since 1934.

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For further information concerning the United States Botanic Garden, contact the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC 20515. Phone, 202–228–1793. Horticulture Hotline, 202–225–8333. Internet, http://www.aoc.gov/.

GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE 441 G Street NW., Washington, DC 20548 Phone, 202–512–3000. Internet, http://www.gao.gov/.

Comptroller General of the United States DAVID M. WALKER Deputy Comptroller General of the United (VACANCY) States Principal Assistant Comptroller General JAMES F. HINCHMAN Assistant Comptroller General for Planning (VACANCY) and Reporting Assistant Comptroller General for Operations JOAN M. DODARO Assistant Comptroller General for Policy THOMAS J. BREW, Acting Assistant Comptroller General, General NANCY KINGSBURY, Acting Government Division Assistant Comptroller General, Health, RICHARD L. HEMBRA Education, and Human Services Division Assistant Comptroller General, Office of JOHN HARMAN Information Management and Communications Assistant Comptroller General, National HENRY L. HINTON, JR. Security and International Affairs Division Assistant Comptroller General, Resources, KEITH O. FULTZ Community, and Economic Development Division Assistant Comptroller General, Accounting GENE L. DODARO and Information Management Division General Counsel ROBERT P. MURPHY Chief Accountant PHILIP CALDER Assistant Comptroller General for Special ROBERT H. HAST, Acting Investigations Support Functions: Chief Economist LOREN YAGER, Acting Director, Civil Rights Office NILDA I. APONTE Director, Office of Congressional Relations HELEN H. HSING Director, Office of Counseling and Career HOWARD N. JOHNSON Development Inspector General FRANCES GARCIA Director, Office of International Liaison LINDA L. WEEKS Director, Personnel PATRICIA M. RODGERS Director, Office of Public Affairs CLEVE E. CORLETT Director, Office of Recruitment PAUL JONES Director, Training Institute ANNE K. KLEIN , Personnel Appeals Board MICHAEL WOLF

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