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Title 2 — The Congress

Part A · Chapter 65 — Senate Officers and Administration

§ 6544. Substitute reporters of debates and expert transcribers; temporary reporters of debates and expert transcribers; payments from Senate contingent fund

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Senate is on and after , authorized to employ, by contract or otherwise, substitute reporters of debates and expert transcribers at daily rates of compensation, or temporary reporters of debates and expert transcribers at annual rates of compensation; no temporary reporters of debates or expert transcribers may be employed under authority of this provision for more than ninety days in any fiscal year; and payments made under authority of this section shall be made from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the Secretary of the Senate.

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. 89–90 · 79 Stat. 265

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 6544

    Pub. L. 89–90, July 27, 1965, 79 Stat. 266

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 89–90, July 27, 1965, 79 Stat. 266

  2. Supplemental Appropriations and Rescission Act, 1981

    Pub. L. 97–12 title I § 105 · 95 Stat. 14

    1. Amended · 2 U.S.C. § 6544

      Pub. L. 97–12 amended section generally

    2. Substituted · 2 U.S.C. § 6544

      Pub. L. 97–12 substituting “authorized to employ, by contract or otherwise, substitute reporters of debates and expert transcribers at daily rates of compensation, or temporary reporters of debates and expert transcribers at annual rates of compensation; no temporary reporters of debates or expert transcribers may be employed under authority of this provision for more than ninety days in any fiscal year; and payments made under authority of this section shall be made from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the Secretary of the Senate” for “authorized to obtain by contract or otherwise, emergency reporters and transcribers as may be necessary, payments therefor to be made form the contingent fund of the Senate”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 97–12 amended section generally, substituting “authorized to employ, by contract or otherwise, substitute reporters of debates and expert transcribers at daily rates of compensation, or temporary reporters of debates and expert transcribers at annual rates of compensation; no temporary reporters of debates or expert transcribers may be employed under authority of this provision for more than ninety days in any fiscal year; and payments made under authority of this section shall be made from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the Secretary of the Senate” for “authorized to obtain by contract or otherwise, emergency reporters and transcribers as may be necessary, payments therefor to be made form the contingent fund of the Senate”.

0 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 3 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 126b of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

“On and after ” substituted in text for “hereafter”, which probably meant after the date of enactment of Pub. L. 97–12 rather than the date of enactment of Pub. L. 89–90.

Amendments

1981—Pub. L. 97–12 amended section generally, substituting “authorized to employ, by contract or otherwise, substitute reporters of debates and expert transcribers at daily rates of compensation, or temporary reporters of debates and expert transcribers at annual rates of compensation; no temporary reporters of debates or expert transcribers may be employed under authority of this provision for more than ninety days in any fiscal year; and payments made under authority of this section shall be made from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the Secretary of the Senate” for “authorized to obtain by contract or otherwise, emergency reporters and transcribers as may be necessary, payments therefor to be made form the contingent fund of the Senate”.

Credits

1965–1981 · 2 acts
  1. 1965Pub. L. 89–90, , 79 Stat. 266
  2. 1981Pub. L. 97–12, title I, § 105, , 95 Stat. 61.
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(Pub. L. 89–90, , 79 Stat. 266; Pub. L. 97–12, title I, § 105, , 95 Stat. 61.)

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