[201] GENERAL AND PERMANENT LAWS RELATING [Extracts from the United States Code]1 TITLE 1.-GENERAL PROVISIONS Chapter 2.-ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS; FORMALITIES OF § 112. Statutes at large; contents; admissibility in evidence. The Administrator of General Services shall cause to be compiled, 201 edited, indexed, and published, the United States Statutes at Large, which shall contain all the laws and concurrent resolutions enacted during each regular session of Congress; all proclamations by the President in the numbered series issued since the date of the adjournment of the regular session of Congress next preceding; and also any amendments to the Constitution of the United States proposed or ratified pursuant to article V thereof since that date, together with the certificate of the Administrator of General Services issued in compliance with the provision contained in section 106b of this title. In the event of an extra session of Congress, the Administrator of General Services shall cause all the laws and concurrent resolutions enacted during said extra session to be consolidated with, and published as part of, the contents of the volume for the next regular session. The United States Statutes at Large shall be legal evidence of laws, concurrent resolutions, treaties, international agreements other than treaties, proclamations by the President, and proposed or ratified amendments to the Constitution of the United States therein contained, in all the courts of the United States, the several States, and the Territories and insular possessions of the United States. (Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, § 3, 65 Stat. 710.) § 112b. United States international agreements; transmission to Con- 201.5 gress. (a) The Secretary of State shall transmit to the Congress the text of any international agreement (including the text of any oral international agreement, which agreement shall be reduced to writing), other than a treaty, to which the United States is a party as soon as practicable after such agreement has entered into force with respect to the United States 1 Contains changes through Pub. L. 97-69, enacted October 26, 1981. Since some provisions of the most recently enacted statutes may receive slightly different editorial treatment in the codification process, and since a few stylistic changes have been made in this Manual to achieve more convenient adaptation to Senate needs, some pro forma deviations from the exact format of the United States Code may be noted. but in no event later than sixty days thereafter. However, any such agreement the immediate public disclosure of which would, in the opinion of the President, be prejudicial to the national security of the United States shall not be so transmitted to the Congress but shall be transmitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives under an appropriate injunction of secrecy to be removed only upon due notice from the President. Any department or agency of the United States Government which enters into any international agreement on behalf of the United States shall transmit to the Department of State the text of such agreement not later than twenty days after such agreement has been signed. (b) Not later than March 1, 1979, and at yearly intervals thereafter, the President shall, under his own signature, transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report with respect to each international agreement which, during the preceding year, was transmitted to the Congress after the expiration of the 60-day period referred to in the first sentence of subsection (a), describing fully and completely the reasons for the late transmittal. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an international agreement may not be signed or otherwise concluded on behalf of the United States without prior consultation with the Secretary of State. Such consultation may encompass a class of agreements rather than a particular agreement. (d) The Secretary of State shall determine for and within the executive branch whether an arrangement constitutes an international agreement within the meaning of this section. (e) The President shall, through the Secretary of State, promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out this section. (Aug. 25, 1972, Pub. L. 92-403, § 1, 86 Stat. 619; June 15, 1977, Pub. L. 95-45, § 5, 91 Stat. 224; Oct. 7, 1978, Pub. L. 95-426, § 708, 92 Stat. 993.) Chapter 3.-CODE OF LAWS OF UNITED STATES AND SUPPLE- 202 § 211. Copies [of Code of Laws] to Members of Congress. In addition to quotas provided for by section 210 of this title there shall be printed, published, and distributed of the Code of Laws relating to the District of Columbia with tables, index and other ancillaries, suitably bound and with thumb inserts and other convenient devices to distinguish the parts, and of the supplements to both codes as provided for by sections 202, 203 of this title, ten copies of each for each Member of the Senate * for his use and distribution, and in addition for the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a number of bound copies of each equal to ten times the number of members of such committee[s], and one bound copy of each for the use of each committee of the Senate (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.) 203 § 212. Additional distribution at each new Congress. In addition the Superintendent of Documents shall, at the beginning of the first session of each Congress, supply to each Senator * in such Congress, who may in writing apply for the same, one copy each of the Code of Laws of the United States, the Code of Laws relating to the District of Columbia, and the latest supplement to each code: Provided, That such applicant shall certify in his written application for the same that the volume or volumes for which he applies is intended for his personal use exclusively: And provided further, That no Senator * during his term of service shall receive under this section more than one copy each of the volumes enumerated herein. (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.) * TITLE 2.-THE CONGRESS Chapter 1.-ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES 205 81. Time for election of Senators. 205.1 At the regular election held in any State next preceding the expiration of the term for which any Senator was elected to represent such State in Congress, at which election a Representative to Congress is regularly by law to be chosen, a United States Senator from said State shall be elected by the people thereof for the term commencing on the 3d day of January next thereafter. (June 4, 1914, ch. 103, § 1, 38 Stat. 384; June 5, 1934, ch. 390, §3, 48 Stat. 879.) CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS The first section of Amendment XX to the Constitution provides in part: the terms of Senators and Representatives [shall end] at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin." CROSS REFERENCES Time for election of Senators, see Const. Art. I, §4, cl. 1 (Senate Manual section 761.14). Vacancies in the Senate, see Const. Amend. XVII (Senate Manual section 787). 206 §1a. Election to be certified by governor. It shall be the duty of the executive of the State from which any Senator has been chosen to certify his election, under the seal of the State, to the President of the Senate of the United States. (R.S. §18.) 207 § 1b. Same; countersignature by secretary of state. The certificate mentioned in section la of this title shall be countersigned by the secretary of state of the State. (R.S. § 19.) Chapter 2.-ORGANIZATION OF CONGRESS 210 $21. Oath of Senators. The oath of office shall be administered by the President of the Senate to each Senator who shall be elected, previous to his taking his seat. (R.S. § 28.) 211 §22. Oath of President of Senate. When a President of the Senate has not taken the oath of office, it shall be administered to him by any Member of the Senate. (R.S. § 29.) 212 $23. Presiding officer of Senate may administer oaths. The presiding officer, for the time being, of the Senate of the United States, shall have power to administer all oaths and affirmations that are or may be required by the Constitution, or by law, to be taken by any Senator, officer of the Senate, witness, or other person, in respect to any matter within the jurisdiction of the Senate. (Apr. 18, 1876, ch. 66, § 1, 19 Stat. 34.) § 24. Secretary of Senate or Assistant Secretary may administer oaths. 213 The Secretary of the Senate, and the Assistant Secretary thereof, shall, respectively, have power to administer any oath or affirmation required by law, or by the rules or orders of the Senate, to be taken by any officer of the Senate, and to any witness produced before it. (Apr. 18, 1876, ch, 66, § 2, 19 Stat. 34; amended, Pub. L. 92-51, § 101, July 9, 1971, 85 Stat. 126.) § 27. Change of place of meeting. Whenever Congress is about to convene, and from the prevalence of contagious sickness, or the existence of other circumstances, it would, in the opinion of the President, be hazardous to the lives or health of the Members to meet at the seat of Government, the President, is authorized, by proclamation, to convene Congress at such other place as he may judge proper. (R.S. § 34.) Chapter 3.-COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS §31. Compensation of Members of Congress. (1) The annual rate of pay for (A) each Senator, Member of the House of Representatives, and Delegate to the House of Representatives, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, (B) the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader of the Senate, and the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, and (C) the Speaker of the House of Representatives, shall be the rate determined for such positions under sections 351 to 361 of this title, as adjusted by paragraph (2) of this section. (2) Effective at the beginning of the first applicable pay period commencing on or after the first day of the month in which an adjustment takes effect under section 5305 of Title 5 in the rates of pay under the General Schedule, each annual rate referred to in paragraph (1) shall be adjusted by an amount, rounded to the nearest multiple of $100 (or if midway between multiples of $100, to the next higher multiple of $100), equal to the percentage of such annual rate which corresponds to the overall average percentage (as set forth in the report transmitted to the Congress under section 5305 of Title 5) of the adjustment in the rates of pay under the General Schedule. (Mar. 4, 1925, c. 549, § 4, 43 Stat. 1301; May 17, 1932, c. 190, 47 Stat. 158; Aug. 2, 1946, c. 753, Title VI, § 601(a), 60 Stat. 860; Jan. 19, 1949, c. 2, § 1(d), 63 Stat. 4; Mar. 2, 1955, c. 9, § 4(a), 69 Stat. 11; Aug. 14, 1964, Pub. L. 88-426, Title II, § 204, 78 Stat. 415; Oct. 29, 1965, Pub. L. 89-301, §11(e), 79 Stat. 1120; Dec. 16, 1967, Pub. L. 90206, Title II, §225(h), 81 Stat. 644; Sept. 15, 1969, Pub. L. 91-67, §2, 83 Stat. 107; Aug. 9, 1975, Pub. L. 94-82, Title II, § 204(a), 89 Stat. 421.) 214 220 §31a-1. Expense allowance of Majority and Minority Leaders of 220.5 Senate; expense allowance of Majority and Minority Whips; methods of payment. Effective with fiscal year 1978 and each fiscal year thereafter, the expense allowance of the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate are increased to $10,000 for each fiscal year for each Leader: Provided, That, effective April 1, 1977, there is hereby authorized an expense |