At the regular election held in any State next preceding the expiration of the term for which any Senator was elected to represent such State in Congress, at which election a ...

It shall be the duty of the executive of the State from which any Senator has been chosen to certify his election, under the seal of the State, to the President of the Senate of...

The certificate mentioned in section 1a of this title shall be countersigned by the secretary of state of the State. ...

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(a) On the first day, or within one week thereafter, of the first regular session of the Eighty-second Congress and of each fifth Congress thereafter, the President shall transmit...

Each State shall be entitled, in the Seventy-eighth and in each Congress thereafter until the taking effect of a reapportionment under a subsequent statute or section 2a of...

In each State entitled in the Ninety-first Congress or in any subsequent Congress thereafter to more than one Representative under an apportionment made pursuant to the provisions...

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Candidates for Representative or Representatives to be elected at large in any State shall be nominated in the same manner as candidates for governor, unless otherwise provided by...

Should any State deny or abridge the right of any of the male inhabitants thereof, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, to vote at any election named...

The Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even numbered year, is established as the day for the election, in each of the States and Territories of the United...

The time for holding elections in any State, District, or Territory for a Representative or Delegate to fill a vacancy, whether such vacancy is caused by a failure to elect at...

All votes for Representatives in Congress must be by written or printed ballot, or voting machine the use of which has been duly authorized by the State law; and all votes received...

The oath of office shall be administered by the President of the Senate to each Senator who shall be elected, previous to his taking his seat. ...

When a President of the Senate has not taken the oath of office, it shall be administered to him by any Member of the Senate. ...

The presiding officer, for the time being, of the Senate of the United States, shall have power to administer all oaths and affirmations that are or may be required by...

The Secretary of the Senate, and the assistant secretary thereof, shall, respectively, have power to administer any oath or affirmation required by law, or by the rules or orders...

At the first session of Congress after every general election of Representatives, the oath of office shall be administered by any Member of the House of Representatives to...

(a) The people of the District of Columbia shall be represented in the House of Representatives by a Delegate, to be known as the ''Delegate to the House of Representatives from...

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Before the first meeting of each Congress the Clerk of the next preceding House of Representatives shall make a roll of the Representatives-elect, and place thereon the names...

Whenever Congress is about to convene, and from the prevalence of contagious sickness, or the existence of other circumstances, it would, in the opinion of the President, be...

(a) Periodic compilation; other useful materials; index digest; date of completion The Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives, at the beginning of the fifth...

The Speaker is authorized and directed to complete the Compilation of the Precedents of the House of Representatives by January 1, 1977, and prepare an updated compilation of such ...

(a) There shall be printed and bound as a public document two thousand sets of the Precedents of the House of Representatives compiled and prepared by Lewis Deschler (hereinafter...

(a) Delivery to Members of Ninety-fifth Congress; marking of volumes The Public Printer shall deliver one set of the Precedents to each Senator or Representative in,...

(a) The Public Printer shall make the following distribution of sets of the Precedents; (1) to each standing or joint committee of the Congress which is in existence...

(a) Any set of the Precedents printed and bound pursuant to subsection (a) of section 28b of this title, not needed to carry out the distributions required by sections 28b to 28e...

The Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives shall prepare, compile, and maintain on a current basis and in cumulative form, for each Congress commencing with the...

(a) Caucus or conference for incumbent Members reelected to and Members-elect of ensuing Congress; time and procedure for calling (1) The majority leader or...

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(a) Omitted (b) Committee composition The respective party caucus or conference of the House of Representatives shall each nominate to the House of Representatives at...

In all cases where Members of Congress or Senators are appointed to represent Congress on any board of trustees or board of directors of any corporation or institution to...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State or local law, no elected official of the legislative branch of the United States Government shall be required to serve on...

(1) The annual rate of pay for - (A) each Senator, Member of the House of Representatives, and Delegate to the House of Representatives, and the Resident Commissioner...

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(a) Gifts (1) No Member, officer, or employee of the Senate, or the spouse or dependent thereof, shall knowingly accept, directly or indirectly, any gift or gifts in any...

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Effective fiscal year 1978 and each fiscal year thereafter, the expense allowances of the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate are increased to $10,000 each fiscal year...

(a) Establishment; purpose There is hereby established an account, within the Senate, to be known as the ''Representation Allowance Account for the Majority and...

(a) The Secretary of the Senate shall, upon the written request of the Majority or Minority Leader of the Senate, transfer from any available funds in such Leader's allotment in...

(a) Requests for transfers Upon the written request of the Majority or Minority Leader of the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate shall transfer during any fiscal year, from...

(a) Requests for transfers Upon the written request of the Majority or Minority Whip of the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate shall transfer during any fiscal year, from...

For each fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985), there is hereby authorized an expense allowance for the Chairmen of the Majority and...

For each fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001), there is authorized an expense allowance for the Chairmen of the Majority and Minority...

There shall be paid to the Speaker of the House of Representatives in equal monthly installments an expense allowance of $10,000 per annum to assist in defraying expenses relating...

(a) Each former Speaker of the House of Representatives (hereafter referred to in sections 31b-1 to 31b-7 of this title as the ''Speaker'') is entitled to retain, for as long as he ...

The Speaker is entitled to have the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives be available for payment of, for as long as he determines there is need therefor, commencing...

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(a) The Speaker may send mail as franked mail under sections 3210 and 3213 of title 39, and send and receive mail as franked mail under section 3211 of that title, for as long as...

In order to provide staff assistance to the Speaker in connection with the administration, settlement, and conclusion of matters pertaining to or arising out of his incumbency...

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The entitlements of a former Speaker of the House of Representatives under sections 31b-1 to 31b-7 of this title shall be available - (1) in the case of an individual who is...

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Whenever there is no Vice President, the President of the Senate for the time being is entitled to the compensation provided by law for the Vice President. ...

Effective January 5, 1977, the compensation of a Deputy President pro tempore of the Senate shall be at a rate equal to the rate of annual compensation of the President pro...

Effective with fiscal year 1978 and each fiscal year thereafter, there is hereby authorized an expense allowance for the President Pro Tempore which shall not exceed $10,000...

Senators elected, whose term of office begins on the 3d day of January, and whose credentials in due form of law shall have been presented in the Senate, may receive...

Representatives and Delegates-elect to Congress, whose credentials in due form of law have been duly filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in accordance with...

Each Member and Delegate, after he has taken and subscribed the required oath, is entitled to receive his salary at the end of each month. ...

Section 35 of this title shall not be construed as being applicable to a Senator. ...

Salaries of Senators appointed to fill vacancies in the Senate shall commence on the day of their appointment and continue until their successors are elected and qualified:...

Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Senate, a person serving as a Senator or officer or employee whose compensation is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate may ...

The salaries of Representatives in Congress, Delegates from Territories, and Resident Commissioners, elected for unexpired terms, shall commence on the date of their election and...

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When any individual who has been elected a Member of, or Resident Commissioner to, the House of Representatives dies after the commencement of the Congress to which he has...

Any death gratuity payment at any time specifically appropriated by any Act of Congress or at any time made out of the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives or...

The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives (upon certification by the Clerk of the House of Representatives), respectively,...

When any Member or Delegate withdraws from his seat and does not return before the adjournment of Congress, he shall, in addition to the sum deducted for each day, forfeit a sum...

Whenever a Representative, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or a United States Senator, shall fail to pay any sum or sums due from such person to the House of Representatives...

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The Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed to procure and furnish each fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982) to the President of...

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(a) Each Member-elect (other than an incumbent Member reelected to the ensuing Congress) who attends a caucus or conference called under section 29a(a) of this title, and...

(a) Payments and reimbursements to staff persons under section 43b-2 of this title shall be made as provided (with respect to staff) in the regulations prescribed by the Committee...

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(a) Appointment of employees by Secretary of Senate to assist; termination of employment Upon the recommendation of a Senator-elect (other than an incumbent Senator or...

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Effective April 1, 1975, and each fiscal year thereafter, the annual allowance for stationery for the President of the Senate shall be $4,500. ...

There is established within the Contingent Fund of the Senate a revolving fund which shall consist of (1) the unexpended balance of the appropriation ''Contingent Expenses,...

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There is established a revolving fund for the purpose of administering the funds appropriated for stationery allowances to each Representative, Delegate, the Resident...

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Commencing January 20, 1949, the provisions of existing law relating to long-distance telephone calls for Senators shall be equally applicable to the Vice President of the...

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The compensation of Members and Delegates shall be passed as public accounts, and paid out of the public Treasury. ...

Salary and mileage accounts of Senators shall be certified by the President of the Senate, and those of Representatives and Delegates by the Speaker of the House of...

The Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to sign, during the recess of Congress after the first session and until the first day of the second session,...

The Speaker is authorized to designate from time to time some one from among those appointed by him and appropriated for and employed in his office, whose duty it shall be under...

Whenever any deceased Senator or Member of the House of Representatives shall be actually interred in the Congressional Cemetery, so-called, it shall be the duty of the Sergeant...

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(a) In general The Clerk of the House of Representatives shall, at the request of a Member of the House of Representatives, furnish to the Member, for official use only, one...

In lieu of the volumes of the Code of Laws of the United States, and the supplements thereto, supplied a Senator under section 212 of title 1, the Secretary of the Senate...

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(a) In general Subject to the provision of law specified in subsection (b) of this section, the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives may, by order of...

(a) In general An order under the provision of law specified in subsection (c) of this section may fix or adjust the allowances of the House of Representatives only by reason...

(a) In general There is established for the House of Representatives a single allowance, to be known as the ''Members' Representational Allowance'', which shall be available...

(a) Authorization for payment from Senate contingent fund The contingent fund of the Senate is made available for payment (including reimbursement) to or on behalf of each...

The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate shall furnish each Senator local and long-distance telecommunications services in Washington, District of Columbia, and in...

As used in sections 58a-1 to 58a-3 of this title, the term - (1) ''Sergeant at Arms'' means the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the United States Senate; and ...

(a) Regulations issued by Committee on Rules and Administration Subject to such regulations as may hereafter be issued by the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate,...

The Sergeant at Arms shall report to the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, at such time or times, and in such form and manner, as the Committee may direct,...

(a) As used in this section, the term - (1) ''Sergeant at Arms'' means the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the United States Senate; and (2) ''user'' means...

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(1) Effective January 1, 1988, there shall be, within the contingent fund of the Senate, a separate appropriation account to be known as the ''Senators' Official Personnel and...

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(a) Procurement by Sergeant at Arms of Senate in places designated by Senator; places subject to use; lease of office space (1) The Sergeant at Arms of the Senate shall secure...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, with the approval of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of...

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(a) Authorization; conditions Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a United States Senator may purchase, upon leaving office or otherwise ceasing to be a Senator (except...

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(a) Payment of reasonable expenses from applicable accounts of House; rules and regulations Effective August 16, 1978, notwithstanding any provision of law and until...

(a) Congressional committee regulations for expenditure of appropriations for official mail Except as otherwise provided in this section, funds appropriated by this Act or...

Two weeks after the close of each calendar quarter, or as soon as practicable thereafter, the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate shall send to each Senate office...

In fiscal year 1991 and thereafter, when a Senator disseminates information under the frank by a mass mailing (as defined in section 3210(a)(6)(E) of title 39), the Senator...

(a) Notice that mailing is at taxpayer expense Each mass mailing sent by a Member of the House of Representatives shall bear in a prominent place on its face, or on the...

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(a) Qualifications determinations; removal and discipline Each officer of the Congress having responsibility for the supervision of employees, including employees appointed upon ...

(a) Except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, any employee of the Senate who is required to file a report pursuant to Senate rules shall refrain from...

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(a) Each time the President adjusts the rates of pay of employees under section 5303 of title 5 (or section 5304 or 5304a of such title, as applied to employees employed in the...

No provision of this Act or of any Act enacted after October 1, 1976, which specifies a rate of compensation (including a maximum rate) for any position or employee whose...

(a) Whenever, after November 5, 1990, there is an adjustment in rates of pay for Senators (other than an adjustment which occurs by virtue of an adjustment under section 5303 of...

(a) Whenever an adjustment under section 5303 of title 5 becomes effective with respect to rates of pay under the General Schedule, the Chief Administrative Officer of the House...

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, or any other provision of law, rule, or regulation, on and after December 22, 1987, each time the President pro tempore of...

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The compensation of the Vice President, Senators, and officers and employees, whose compensation is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate, shall be payable on the fifth day of...

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(a) Reimbursement of banks for costs of clearing items for Senate The Secretary of the Senate is authorized to reimburse any bank which clears items for the United States Senate...

(a) Agreement by Secretary with appropriate State official; covered individuals Whenever - (1) the law of any State provides for the collection of an income tax...

(a) Definitions For purposes of this section, the term - (1) ''Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Senate; and (2) ''Architect'' means the Architect of the Capitol. ...

(a) Definitions In this section: (1) Eligible employee The term ''eligible employee'' means an individual - (A) who is an employee of the Senate; and ...

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The usual day for paying salaries in or under the House of Representatives shall be the last day of each month, except that if the last day of a month falls on a Saturday, Sunday,...

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(a) Agreement with proper State official; covered individuals Until otherwise provided by law, the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall, in...

For purposes of section 60e-1a of this title and this section - (1) the term ''State'' means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of...

(a) Authority Until otherwise provided by law and except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall - ...

For purposes of section 60e-1c of this title - (1) the term ''charitable organizations'' means national voluntary health and welfare agencies designated by the Director ...

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The classes of employees whose compensation is authorized by section 3 of the Legislative Pay Act of 1929, as amended (46 Stat. 38; 55 Stat. 615), to be fixed by the Architect of...

For overtime pay purposes, per diem and per hour employees under the Office of the Architect of the Capitol not subject to chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title...

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(a) Hiring authority of House Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners; allowance for payment of compensation Until otherwise provided by law and notwithstanding any other ...

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(a) Eligible employees This section shall apply to - (1) each employee of the Senate whose compensation is paid from the appropriation for Salaries, Officers and...

Any member of the Capitol Police who by reason of the provision repealed by subsection (b) was receiving immediately prior to September 1, 1964, longevity compensation provided...

The provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of section 60j of this title (as amended by section 110 of Pub. L. 95-391), shall apply to telephone operators (including the chief...

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Section 60j of this title on or after October 1, 1983 shall not apply to any individual whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate; except that, any individual who prior...

(a) House employees (1) In general Not later than 180 days after the date the minimum wage rate prescribed by section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of ...

(a) Coverage of House (1) In general Notwithstanding any provision of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.) or of other law, the ...

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(a) Approval; amount; source of payments Upon the approval of the appropriate employing authority, an employee of the House of Representatives may be paid a lump sum for ...

(a) In general The Financial Clerk of the Senate is authorized to accept from an individual whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary of (FOOTNOTE 1) Senate a payment...

No officer or employee of the Senate shall receive pay for any services performed by him at any rate higher than that provided for the office or employment to which he has...

(a) Annual rate; certification (1) Whenever the rate of compensation of any employee whose compensation is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate is fixed or adjusted on...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, appropriated funds are available for payment to an individual of pay from more than one position, each of which is either in the office...

At no time during the first three months of any fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year which begins October 1, 1984) shall the aggregate of payments of gross compensation...

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 61-1(d)(1) of this title, and except as otherwise provided in subparagraph (C) of such subsection (d)(1), the aggregate of...

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The Secretary of the Senate shall be paid at an annual rate of compensation of $40,000. ...

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The Assistant Secretary of the Senate may be paid at a maximum annual rate of compensation not to exceed $39,000. ...

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The Secretary of the Senate is hereafter authorized to advance, in his discretion, to any designated employee under his jurisdiction, such sums as may be necessary, not...

For the purpose of carrying out his duties, the Secretary of the Senate is authorized to incur official travel expenses. The Secretary of the Senate is authorized to advance, in...

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Effective October 1, 1981, all statutory positions in the Office of the Secretary (other than the positions of the Secretary of the Senate, Assistant Secretary of the...

The Parliamentarian of the Senate may be paid at a maximum annual rate of compensation not to exceed $39,000. ...

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For each fiscal year (beginning with the fiscal year which ends September 30, 1982), the Secretary of the Senate is authorized to expend from the contingent fund of the Senate...

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Any specific rate of compensation established by law, as such rate has been increased or may hereafter be increased by or pursuant to law, for any position under the jurisdiction...

The Assistant to the Majority of the Senate and the Assistant to the Minority of the Senate in the Office of the Secretary of the Senate may each be paid a maximum annual rate...

Effective with respect to pay periods beginning on or after December 22, 1987, the Chaplain of the Senate shall be compensated at a rate equal to the annual rate of basic pay...

The Chaplain of the Senate may appoint and fix the compensation of such employees as he deems appropriate, except that the amount which may be paid for any fiscal year as...

The Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed to procure and furnish each fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982) to the Chaplain of...

(a) Establishment There is established in the Treasury of the United States within the contingent fund of the Senate a revolving fund, to be known as the ''Office of the...

The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate shall be paid at an annual rate of compensation of $40,000. ...

Effective August 1, 1979, the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper may fix the compensation of the Deputy Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper at an annual rate not to exceed the maximum...

Effective August 1, 1979 - (1) the maximum annual rate of compensation of the Administrative Assistant to the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate shall be...

In the event of the death, resignation, or disability of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, the Deputy Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper shall act as Sergeant at...

The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate (hereinafter in this section referred to as the ''Sergeant at Arms'') may designate one or more employees in the Office of...

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For the purpose of carrying out his duties, the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate is authorized to incur official travel expenses during each fiscal year not to exceed...

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Effective October 1, 1981, all statutory positions in the Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate (other than the positions of the Sergeant at Arms and...

For each fiscal year (beginning with the fiscal year which ends September 30, 1982), the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate is hereby authorized to expend from the...

The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, in carrying out the duties of his office, is authorized to employ personnel at daily rates of compensation; no individual...

(a) In general (1) Subject to regulations that the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate may prescribe, the Secretary of the Senate and the Sergeant at Arms...

The Secretary for the Majority of the Senate (other than the incumbent holding office on April 1, 1977) and the Secretary for the Minority of the Senate shall each be paid at...

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Effective October 1, 1979, the Secretary of the Conference of the Majority and the Secretary of the Conference of the Minority are each authorized to appoint and fix the...

Effective October 1, 1977, the Secretary for the Majority and the Secretary for the Minority are each authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of such employees as they...

For each fiscal year (beginning with the fiscal year which ends September 30, 1982) there is authorized to be expended from the contingent fund of the Senate an amount, not in...

(a) Transfer of funds for Policy Committees (1) The Chairman of the Majority or Minority Policy Committee of the Senate may, during any fiscal year, at his or her election ...

(a) Authorization of expenditure with approval of Committee on Rules and Administration Funds authorized to be expended under section 61g-6 of this title may be used by...

Funds appropriated to the Conference of the Majority and funds appropriated to the Conference of the Minority for any fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year ending September...

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Effective April 1, 1977, the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader are each authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of such employees as they deem appropriate: Provided,...

Effective October 1, 1983, there is established within the Offices of the Majority and Minority Leaders the positions of Assistant to the Majority Leader for Floor Operations...

(a) The Majority Leader and the Minority Leader, are each authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of not more than six individual consultants, on a temporary or...

(a) There is established within the Offices of the Majority and Minority Leaders the positions of Chief of Staff for the Majority Leader and Chief of Staff for the Minority...

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Effective April 1, 1977, the Majority Whip and the Minority Whip are each authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of such employees as they deem appropriate: Provided, That...

Effective October 1, 1979, the President pro tempore is authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of such employees as he deems appropriate: Provided, That the gross...

Effective April 1, 1977, the Deputy President pro tempore is authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of an Administrative Assistant at not to exceed $47,595 per annum;...

The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate shall receive, directly or indirectly, no fees or other compensation or emolument whatever for performing the duties of the...

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The Secretary of the Senate is on and after November 1, 1973, authorized to designate, in writing, employees of the Disbursing Office of the Senate to administer oaths...

During any fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1982) the Secretary of the Senate is authorized to make such transfers between appropriations of...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Senate is authorized to receive moneys from the Department of the Treasury as reimbursements for salaries paid by...

For any period during which both the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary of