Sets annual spending limits for the expenses, including staff salaries, of 21 House committees for the 119th Congress, with separate caps for each year of the Congress and a shared reserve fund for unexpected costs.

• Sets a total spending cap for each of 21 House committees, including the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, for the full Congress.
• Splits those caps into separate limits for the 2025 session, running from January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2026, and the 2026 session, running from January 3, 2026 to January 3, 2027.
• Creates a $4,000,000 reserve fund for unanticipated committee expenses, with $2,000,000 available in each session, paid out under allocations approved by the Committee on House Administration.
• Requires committee payments to be made on vouchers signed by the committee chair and approved as the Committee on House Administration directs, and lets that committee adjust the caps if a presidential sequestration order under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 requires it.

• Committee on House Administration (House)

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