Title 2 — The Congress
Part A · Chapter 65 — Senate Officers and Administration
§ 6596. Employment of personnel by Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of Senate at daily rates of compensation; authorization; limitation on amount of compensation
Statutory text
The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, in carrying out the duties of his office, is authorized to employ personnel at daily rates of compensation; no individual so employed shall be paid at a daily rate of compensation which is in excess of the per diem equivalent of the highest gross rate of annual compensation which may be paid to employees of a standing committee of the Senate; and payments under authority of this section shall be made from the account, within the contingent fund of the Senate, for the “Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate”, upon vouchers approved by the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper 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.
Pub. L. 98–367 title I § 6 · 98 Stat. 472
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 6596
(Pub. L. 98–367, title I, § 6, July 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 475.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 98–367, title I, § 6, July 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 475.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 6. The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, in 2 USC 61f–9. carrying out the duties of his office, is authorized to employ personnel at daily rates of compensation; no individual so employed shall be paid at a daily rate of compensation which is in excess of the per diem equivalent of the highest gross rate of annual compensation which may be paid to employees of a standing committee of the Senate; and payments under authority of this section shall be made from the account, within the contingent fund of the Senate, for the “Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate”, upon vouchers approved by the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 61f–9 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Section is from the Congressional Operations Appropriation Act, 1985, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1985.