Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 30 — Operation and Maintenance of Capitol Complex
§ 2009. Assignment of rooms to Commissioner from Puerto Rico
Statutory text
In the matter of the assignment of rooms under sections 2004 to 2011 of this title, Delegates in Congress and the Commissioner from Puerto Rico shall be treated the same as Representatives.
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.
May 28, 1908, No. 30, 35 Stat. 579 · 35 Stat. 579
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 2009
May 28, 1908, No. 30, 35 Stat. 579
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 28, 1908, No. 30, 35 Stat. 579
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was classified to section 182 of former Title 40, prior to the enactment of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, by Pub. L. 107–217, § 1, , 116 Stat. 1062.
Words “and the Philippine Islands” after “Puerto Rico” were omitted pursuant to 1946 Proc. No. 2695, eff. , 11 F.R. 7517, 60 Stat. 1352, which granted independence to the Philippine Islands on , under the authority of act Mar. 24, 1934, ch. 84, § 10, 48 Stat. 463, as amended, which is classified to section 1394 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Puerto Rico” substituted in text for “Porto Rico” pursuant to act , which is classified to section 731a of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
Commissioner From Puerto Rico as Resident Commissioner
Section 2106 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, provides that the term “Members of Congress” shall include the “Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico.”
Credits
1908–1946 · 3 acts
- 1908, No. 30, 35 Stat. 579
- 1932May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158
- 1946Proc. No. 2695, eff. , 11 F.R. 7517, 60 Stat. 1352.
Show as published
(, No. 30, 35 Stat. 579; May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158; Proc. No. 2695, eff. , 11 F.R. 7517, 60 Stat. 1352.)