Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 51 — House of Representatives Leadership
§ 5104. Authority of Speaker and Minority Leader to allocate funds among certain House leadership offices
Statutory text
Authority of Speaker
Authority described
Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including any provision of law that sets forth an allowance for official expenses), the amount appropriated or otherwise made available during a Congress for the salaries and expenses of any office or authority described in paragraph (2) shall be the amount allocated for such office or authority by the Speaker of the House of Representatives from the aggregate amount appropriated or otherwise made available for all such offices and authorities.
Offices and authorities described
The offices and authorities described in this paragraph are as follows:
The Office of the Speaker.
The Speaker’s Office for Legislative Floor Activities.
The Republican Steering Committee (if the Speaker is a member of the Republican party) or the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee (if the Speaker is a member of the Democratic party).
The Republican Policy Committee (if the Speaker is a member of the Republican party).
Training and program development—majority (as described under the heading “House leadership offices” in the most recent bill making appropriations for the legislative branch that was enacted prior to ).
Cloakroom personnel—majority (as so described).
Authority of Minority Leader
Authority described
Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including any provision of law that sets forth an allowance for official expenses), the amount appropriated or otherwise made available during a Congress for the salaries and expenses of any office or authority described in paragraph (2) shall be the amount allocated for such office or authority by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives from the aggregate amount appropriated or otherwise made available for all such offices and authorities.
Offices and authorities described
The offices and authorities described in this paragraph are as follows:
The Office of the Minority Leader.
The Democratic Steering and Policy Committee (if the Minority Leader is a member of the Democratic party) or the Republican Steering Committee (if the Minority Leader is a member of the Republican party).
The Republican Policy Committee (if the Minority Leader is a member of the Republican party).
Training and program development—minority (as described under the heading “House leadership offices” in the most recent bill making appropriations for the legislative branch that was enacted prior to ).
Cloakroom personnel—minority (as so described).
Nine minority employees (as so described).
Effective date
This section shall apply with respect to any months occurring during the One Hundred Twelfth Congress that begin after , and to any succeeding Congress.
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.
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012
Pub. L. 112–74 div. G title I § 103 · 125 Stat. 1121
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 5104
(Pub. L. 112–74, div. G, title I, § 103, Dec. 23, 2011, 125 Stat. 1121.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 112–74, div. G, title I, § 103, Dec. 23, 2011, 125 Stat. 1121.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 103. None of the funds in this Act, or previous Acts, making funds available for Energy and Water Development, shall be used to award any continuing contract that commits additional funding from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund unless or until such time that a long-term mechanism to enhance revenues in this Fund sufficient to meet the cost-sharing authorized in the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (Public Law 99–662) is enacted.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The most recent bill making appropriations for the legislative branch that was enacted prior to , containing the heading “House leadership offices”, referred to in subsecs. (a)(2)(E) and (b)(2)(D), is Pub. L. 111–68, div. A, , 123 Stat. 2023. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 74a–11a of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Section is from the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2012, which is div. G of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012.