Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 6 — Congressional and Committee Procedure; Investigations
§ 197. Compensation of employees
Statutory text
The rate of compensation for any position under the appropriations now available for, or hereafter made for, expenses of inquiries and investigations of the Senate or expenses of special and select committees of the House of Representatives shall not exceed the rates fixed under chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, for positions with comparable duties; and the salary limitations of $3,600 attached to appropriations heretofore made for expenses of inquiries and investigations of the Senate or for expenses of special and select committees of the House of Representatives are repealed.
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.
Pub. L. 75–9 · 50 Stat. 8
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 197
Feb. 9, 1937, ch. 9, title I, § 1, 50 Stat. 9
Source evidence
Code source credit
Feb. 9, 1937, ch. 9, title I, § 1, 50 Stat. 9
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
“Chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5” substituted in text for “the Classification Act of 1949” on authority of section 7(b) of Pub. L. 89–554, , 80 Stat. 631, section 1 of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Amendments
1949—Act , substituted “Classification Act of 1949” for “Classification Act of 1923”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Repeals
Act Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, cited as a credit to this section, was repealed (subject to a savings clause) by Pub. L. 89–554, , § 8, 80 Stat. 632, 655.
Credits
1937–1949 · 2 acts
- 1937Feb. 9, 1937, ch. 9, title I, § 1, 50 Stat. 9
- 1949Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, title XI, § 1106(a), 63 Stat. 972.
Show as published
(Feb. 9, 1937, ch. 9, title I, § 1, 50 Stat. 9; Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, title XI, § 1106(a), 63 Stat. 972.)