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PUBLIC LAW 94-000—MMMM. DD, 1975

PUBLIC LAW 94-59—JULY 25, 1975

89 STAT. 299

herein, shall be the permanent law with respect thereto; Provided, That the provisions herein for the various items of official expenses of Members, officers, and committees of the Senate and House, and clerk hire for Senators and Members shall be the permanent law with respect thereto. SEC. 1103. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall Standard level be available for paying to the Administrator of the General Services user charge, Administration in excess of 90 per centum of the standard level user limitation. charge established pursuant to section 210(j) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, for space and 40 USC 490. services. SEC. 1104. Section 105(b) of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1961 (22 U.S.C. 276c-l), as amended, relating to reporting of expenditures by members of groups or delegations to interparliame^ tary groups, is amended by striking out the entire section and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Each chairman or senior member of the House of Representatives and Senate group or delegation of the United States group or delegation to the Interparliamentary Union, the North Atlantic Assembly, the Canada-United States Interparliamentary Group, the MexicoUnited States Interparliamentary Group, or any similar interparliamentary group of which the United States is a member or participates, by whom or on whose behalf local currencies owned by the United States are made available and expended and/or expenditures are made from funds appropriated for the expenses of such group or delegation, shall file with the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate in the case of the group or delegation of the Senate, or with the chairman of the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives in the case of the group or delegation of the House, an itemized report showing all such expenditures made by or on behalf of each Member or employee of the group or delegation together with the purposes of the expenditure, including per diem (lodging and meals), transportation, and other purposes. Within sixty days after the beginning of each regular session of Reports, public Congress, the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations and inspection. the chairman of the Committee on International Relations shall prepare consolidated reports showing with respect to each such group or delegation the total amount expended, the purposes of the expenditures, the amount expended for each such purpose, the names of the Members or employees by or on behalf of whom the expenditures were made and the amount expended by or on behalf of each Member or employee for each such purpose. The consolidated reports prepared by the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate shall be filed with the Secretary of the Senate, and the consolidated reports prepared by the chairman of the Committee on International Relations of the House shall be filed with the Committee on House Administration of the House and shall be open to public inspection.". SEC. 1105. Section 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954 (22 Report, public U.S.C. 1764(b)), relating to the use of foreign currency, is amended inspection. by striking out the last two sentences and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Within the first sixty days that Congress is in session in each calendar year, the chairman of such committee shall prepare a cwisolidated report itemizing the amounts and dollar equivalent values of each such foreign currency expended and the amounts of dollar expenditures from appropriated funds in connection with travel outside the United States, together with the purposes of the expenditure.