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Title 2 — The Congress

Chapter 55 — House of Representatives Officers and Administration

§ 5514. Green and Gold Congressional Aide Program

Statutory text

(a)

Establishment

There is established in the House of Representatives the Green and Gold Congressional Aide Program (hereafter in this section referred to as the “Program”) for veterans and Gold Star Families, under the direction of the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives, under which an eligible individual may serve a 2-year fellowship in the office of a Member of the House of Representatives (including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress) or House Officer.

(b)

Placement

An individual may serve a fellowship under the Program at the Member’s office in the District of Columbia or the Member’s office in the congressional district the Member represents. Fellows assigned to House Officers may serve where assigned.

(c)

Exclusion of appointees for purposes of limit on number of employees in Member offices

Any individual serving a fellowship under the Program in the office of a Member shall not be included in the determination of the number of employees employed by the Member under section 5321(a) of this title.

(d)

Regulations

The Program shall be carried out in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Committee on House Administration.

(e)

Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2022 and each succeeding fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to carry out the Program.

(f)

Effective date

This section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2022 and each succeeding fiscal year.

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. Department of the Treasury Appropriations Act, 2022

    Pub. L. 117–103 div. I title I § 114 · 136 Stat. 49

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 5514

    (Pub. L. 117–103, div. I, title I, § 114, Mar. 15, 2022, 136 Stat. 511.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 117–103, div. I, title I, § 114, Mar. 15, 2022, 136 Stat. 511.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 114. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropriation made available in this Act to the Internal Revenue Service may be transferred to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s appropriation upon the advance approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided, That no transfer may increase or decrease any such appropriation by more than 2 percent.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 117–103, div. I, title I, § 114, , 136 Stat. 511.)

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