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Title 2 — The Congress

Chapter 6 — Congressional and Committee Procedure; Investigations

§ 196. Senate resolutions for investigations; limit of cost

Statutory text

Senate resolutions providing for inquiries and investigations shall contain a limit of cost of such investigation, which limit shall not be exceeded except by vote of the Senate authorizing additional amounts.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 69–44 § 1 · 44 Stat. 161

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 196

    (Mar. 3, 1926, ch. 44, § 1, 44 Stat. 162.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 3, 1926, ch. 44, § 1, 44 Stat. 162.)

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Credits

(Mar. 3, 1926, ch. 44, § 1, 44 Stat. 162.)

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