Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc.
§ 276p. United States Senate-Japan Interparliamentary Group
Statutory text
Establishment and meetings
Not to exceed 12 Senators shall be appointed to meet once per Congress with representatives of the Diet of Japan for discussion of common problems in the interest of relations between the United States and Japan. The Senators so appointed shall be referred to as the “United States group” of the United States Senate-Japan Interparliamentary Group. The meetings shall take place in Japan and Washington, D.C. alternatively.
Appointment of members
The President of the Senate shall appoint Senators under this section, including a Chair and Vice Chair, upon recommendations of the majority and minority leaders of the Senate. Such appointments shall be for the duration of each Congress.
Funding
There is authorized to be appropriated $100,000 for each Congress to assist in meeting the expenses of the United States group. Appropriations shall be disbursed on vouchers to be approved by the Chair of the United States group.
Certification of expenditures
A report of expenditures by the United States group shall be prepared and certified each Congress by the Chair.
Effective date
This section shall apply to fiscal year 2008, and each fiscal year thereafter.
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.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008
Pub. L. 110–161 div. H title I § 5 · 121 Stat. 1844
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 276p
(Pub. L. 110–161, div. H, title I, § 5, Dec. 26, 2007, 121 Stat. 2221.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 110–161, div. H, title I, § 5, Dec. 26, 2007, 121 Stat. 2221.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 5. EMERGENCY DESIGNATIONS. Any designation in any division of this Act referring to this section is a designation of an amount as an emergency requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of section 204 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2008.
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