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Title 2 — The Congress

Chapter 9C — Office of Parliamentarian of House of Representatives

§ 287a. Parliamentarian

Statutory text

The management, supervision, and administration of the Office shall be vested in the Parliamentarian, who shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives without regard to political affiliation and solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of the position. Any person so appointed shall serve at the pleasure of the Speaker.

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. 95–94 title I § 115 · 91 Stat. 1254

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 287a

    (Pub. L. 95–94, title I, § 115, Aug. 5, 1977, 91 Stat. 668.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 95–94, title I, § 115, Aug. 5, 1977, 91 Stat. 668.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 115. The provisions of House Resolution 1495, Ninety-fourth Congress, relating to the salaries of Official Reporters of Debates and 2 USC 316–5 and note. Official Reporters to Committees; House Resolution 1576, Ninety-fourth Congress, providing for an additional employee for former Speakers of the House of Representatives; paragraph 29 of House Resolution 5, Ninety-fifth Congress, amending Rule XI 6(c) of the 2 USC 75–1, 76–1, 77a, 282b. House relating to the pay of committee staffs; House Resolution 8, Ninety-fifth Congress, increasing the basic levels of pay for selected positions in the House of Representatives; House Resolution 119, Ninety-fifth Congress, increasing the basic levels of pay for six 2 USC 41 note, 56 note, 122a note. 2 USC 74a–3, 74a–4. minority positions; section 302 of House Resolution 287, Ninety-fifth Congress, relating to official expense allowances of Members; House Resolution 393, Ninety-fifth Congress, relating to additional employees in the Office of the Minority Leader and the Offices of the Majority Whip and the Chief Majority Whip, and additional allowances for the Majority Leader, the Minority Leader, the Majority Whip, and the 2 USC 130 and note. 2 USC 287–287d. Minority Whip; House Resolution 434, Ninety-fifth Congress, relating to expenses of interparliamentary meetings and the reception of heads of states and other foreign dignitaries; and House Resolution 502, Ninety-fifth Congress, relating to the establishment and administration of the Office of the Parliamentarian, shall be the permanent law with respect thereto.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is based on section 2 of House Resolution No. 502, Ninety-fifth Congress, , which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 95–94.

Credits

(Pub. L. 95–94, title I, § 115, , 91 Stat. 668.)

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