Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 43 — Congressional Committees
§ 4311. Approval of employment and compensation of committee employees by House standing committees
Statutory text
Standing committees of the House shall have authority to approve the employment and compensation of committee employees (other than special and select committee employees) from the effective date of the beginning of each Congress, or such subsequent date as their service commenced.
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. 87–130 § 103 · 75 Stat. 320
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 4311
(Pub. L. 87–130, § 103, Aug. 10, 1961, 75 Stat. 334.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 87–130, § 103, Aug. 10, 1961, 75 Stat. 334.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 103. Whenever any office or position not specifically established 46 Stat. 32. 2 USC 60a note. by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is appropriated for herein or whenever the rate of compensation or designation of any position appropriated for herein is different from that specifically established for such position by such Act, the rate of compensation and the designation of the position, or either, appropriated for or provided herein, shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: Provided, That the provisions herein for the various items of official expenses of Members, officers, and committees of the Senate and House, and clerk hire for Senators and Members shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: Provided further, That the provisions relating to positions and salaries thereof carried in H. Res. 646 of the Eighty-sixth Congress and H. Res. 16, 138, 139, 219, and 225 of the Eighty-seventh Congress shall be the permanent law with respect thereto.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 72a–1b of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Section is based on House Resolution No. 16, Eighty-seventh Congress, , which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 87–130.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Increases in Compensation
Increases in compensation for House officers and employees under authority of Federal Salary Act of 1967 (Pub. L. 90–206), Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970 (Pub. L. 91–656), and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1988 (Pub. L. 100–202), see sections 4531 and 4532 of this title, and Salary Directives of Speaker of the House, set out as notes under those sections.