That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes, namely:

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any amounts appropriated under this Act for HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES — Salaries and Expenses — MEMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES shall be available only until December 31, 2028. Any amount remaining after all payments are made under such allowances after December 31, 2028, shall be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction (or, if there is no Federal budget deficit after all such payments have been made, for reducing the Federal debt, in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury considers appropriate). (b) The Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives shall have authority to prescribe regulations to carry out this section. (c) As used in this section, the term Member of the House of Representatives means a Representative in, or a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress.

None of the funds made available in this Act may be used by the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives to make any payments from any Members' Representational Allowance for the leasing of a vehicle, excluding mobile district offices, in an aggregate amount that exceeds $1,000 for the vehicle in any month.

The head of any Federal entity that provides assistance to the House of Representatives in the House's efforts to deter, prevent, mitigate, or remediate cybersecurity risks to, and incidents involving, the information systems of the House shall take all necessary steps to ensure the constitutional integrity of the separate branches of the government at all stages of providing the assistance, including applying minimization procedures to limit the spread or sharing of privileged House and Member information.

(a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2027 for a Member, committee, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives may be obligated, awarded, or expended to procure or purchase covered information technology equipment in cases where the manufacturer, bidder, or offeror, or any subsidiary or parent entity of the manufacturer, bidder, or offeror, of the equipment is an entity or parent company of an entity listed on any of the following: (1) The Chinese Military Company List of the Department of Defense. (2) The Non-SDN Chinese Military Industrial Complex Companies List of the Department of the Treasury. (3) The Denied Persons List, Entity List, or Military End User List of the Department of Commerce, if the entity is— (A) an agency or instrumentality of the People’s Republic of China; (B) an entity headquartered in the People’s Republic of China; or (C) directly or indirectly owned or controlled by an agency, instrumentality, or entity described in subparagraph (A) or (B). (4) The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List of the Department of Homeland Security. (b) The prohibition under subsection (a) shall apply to a case in which a Member, committee, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives has entered into a contract with another entity for the procurement or purchase of, or the expenditure of funds on, covered information technology equipment. (c) In this section, the term covered information technology equipment — (1) means a computer, printer, or interoperable videoconferencing equipment for direct use by a Member, committee, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives in an office environment; and (2) does not include services that use such equipment, including cloud services.

Starting on January 3, 2027, none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to satisfy any requirement Workplace Rights and Responsibilities training for Members of Congress who has a publicly disclosed matter under review by the House Ethics Committee unless such training is completed in person.

None of the funds made available in this Act for the Architect of the Capitol may be used to make incentive or award payments to contractors for work on contracts or programs for which the contractor is behind schedule or over budget, unless the Architect of the Capitol, or agency-employed designee, determines that any such deviations are due to unforeseeable events, government-driven scope changes, or are not significant within the overall scope of the project and/or program.

(a) In General For fiscal year 2027, the obligational authority of the Library of Congress for the activities described in subsection (b) may not exceed $342,285,000. (b) Activities The activities referred to in subsection (a) are reimbursable and revolving fund activities that are funded from sources other than appropriations to the Library in appropriations Acts for the legislative branch.

None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act for the Government Accountability Office may be used with respect to a civil action brought under section 1016 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 687U.S. Code — Title 2, Section 687View official source on GovInfo) unless Congress has adopted a concurrent resolution authorizing the Comptroller General to bring such civil action.

No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the maintenance or care of private vehicles, except for emergency assistance and cleaning as may be provided under regulations relating to parking facilities for the House of Representatives issued by the Committee on House Administration and for the Senate issued by the Committee on Rules and Administration.

No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond fiscal year 2027 unless expressly so provided in this Act.

Whenever in this Act any office or position not specifically established by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 (46 Stat. 32 et seq.) is appropriated for or the rate of compensation or designation of any office or position appropriated for is different from that specifically established by such Act, the rate of compensation and the designation in this Act shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: Provided, That the provisions in this Act for the various items of official expenses of Members, officers, and committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, and clerk hire for Senators and Members of the House of Representatives shall be the permanent law with respect thereto.

The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, under section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive order issued under existing law.

Amounts available for administrative expenses of any legislative branch entity which participates in the Legislative Branch Financial Managers Council (LBFMC) established by charter on March 26, 1996, shall be available to finance an appropriate share of LBFMC costs as determined by the LBFMC, except that the total LBFMC costs to be shared among all participating legislative branch entities (in such allocations among the entities as the entities may determine) may not exceed $2,000.

None of the funds made available in this Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), none of the funds made available to the Architect of the Capitol in this Act may be used to eliminate or restrict guided tours of the United States Capitol which are led by employees and interns of offices of Members of Congress and other offices of the House of Representatives and Senate, unless through regulations as authorized by section 402(b)(8) of the Capitol Visitor Center Act of 2008 (2 U.S.C. 2242(b)(8)U.S. Code — Title 2, Section 2242(b)(8)View official source on GovInfo). (b) At the direction of the Capitol Police Board, or at the direction of the Architect of the Capitol with the approval of the Capitol Police Board, guided tours of the United States Capitol which are led by employees and interns described in subsection (a) may be suspended temporarily or otherwise subject to restriction for security or related reasons to the same extent as guided tours of the United States Capitol which are led by the Architect of the Capitol.

(a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this Act may be used to acquire telecommunications or video surveillance equipment produced by— (1) Huawei Technologies Company, ZTE Corporation, Hytera Communications Corporation, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Company, or Dahua Technology Company (or any subsidiary or affiliate of such entities); or (2) any entity that the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of the National Intelligence or the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, reasonably believes to be an entity owned or controlled by, or otherwise connected to, the government of a foreign adversary. (b) The term foreign adversary has the meaning given the term covered nation in section 4872(f) of title 10, United States Code.

(a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer network unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography. (b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out criminal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities or other official government activities.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no adjustment shall be made under section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 4501U.S. Code — Title 2, Section 4501View official source on GovInfo) (relating to cost of living adjustments for Members of Congress) during fiscal year 2027.

Notwithstanding section 2 of the Librarian of Congress Succession Modernization Act of 2015 (2 U.S.C. 136U.S. Code — Title 2, Section 136View official source on GovInfo–1) and section 301 of title 44, United States Code, the Librarian of Congress and the Director of the Government Publishing Office shall be appointed, and may be removed, without regard to political affiliation and solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of the office, upon a majority vote of a congressional commission consisting of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the majority leader of the Senate, the minority leaders of the House of Representatives and Senate, the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, the chairman and the ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives, and the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate.

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