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allowance for the Majority and Minority Whips of the Senate which shall not exceed $2,500 each fiscal year for each Whip: Provided further, That, during the period beginning on January 3, 1977, and ending September 30, 1977, and during each fiscal year thereafter, the Vice President, the Majority Leader, the Minority Leader, the Majority Whip, and the Minority Whip may receive the expense allowance (a) as reimbursement for actual expenses incurred upon certification and documentation of such expenses by the Vice President, the respective Leader or the respective Whip, or (b) in equal monthly payments. Effective January 3, 1977, the amounts paid to the Vice President, the Majority or Minority Leader of the Senate, or the Majority or Minority Whip of the Senate as reimbursement of actual expenses incurred upon certification and documentation pursuant to this section, shall not be reported as income, and the expenses so reimbursed shall not be allowed as a deduction, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. (May 4, 1977, Pub. L. 95-26, Title I, § 100, 91 Stat. 79; Aug. 5, 1977, Pub. L. 95-94, Title I, § 109, 91 Stat. 661; Sept. 8, 1978, Pub. L. 95-355, Title I, § 100, 92 Stat. 532.)

§31c. (Repealed) (Aug. 1, 1953, ch. 304, § 101, 67 Stat. 322, Oct. 1, 1981, Pub. L. 97-51, § 139(b)(2), 95 Stat. 967.)

222 $32. Compensation of President Pro Tempore of Senate.

Whenever there is no Vice President, the President of the Senate for the time being is entitled to the compensation provided by law for the Vice President. (R.S. § 36.)

CROSS REFERENCES

Compensation of Vice President, see section 104 of title 3, United States Code, relating to the President (Senate Manual section 421).

Mileage of President of Senate, see section 43a of this title (Senate Manual section 233).

222.5 §32a. Compensation of Deputy President pro tempore of Senate.

Effective January 5, 1977, the compensation of a Deputy President pro tempore of the Senate shall be at a rate equal to the rate of annual compensation of the President pro tempore and the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate. (May 4, 1977, Pub. L. 95-26, Title I, § 100, 91 Stat. 79.)

222.6 §32b. Expense allowance of President Pro Tempore of Senate; methods of payment; taxability.

Effective with fiscal year 1978 and each fiscal year thereafter, there is hereby authorized an expense allowance for the President Pro Tempore which shall not exceed $10,000 each fiscal year. The President Pro Tempore may receive the expense allowance (1) as reimbursement for actual expenses incurred upon certification and documentation of such expenses by the President Pro Tempore, or (2) in equal monthly payments. Such amounts paid to the President Pro Tempore as reimbursement of actual expenses incurred upon certification and documentation pursuant to this provision, shall not be reported as income, and the expenses so reimbursed shall not be allowed as a deduction, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. (Sept. 8, 1978, Pub. L. 95-355, Title I, § 100, 92 Stat. 532.)

§33. (Repealed)

NOTE

Repeal of this section shall be effective in the case of compensation payable for months after December 1981.

§36. Salaries of Senators.

Salaries of Senators appointed to fill vacancies in the Senate shall commence on the day of their appointment and continue until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, That when Senators have been elected during a sine die adjournment of the Senate to succeed appointees, the salaries of Senators so elected shall commence on the day following their election.

Salaries of Senators elected during a session to succeed appointees shall commence on the day they qualify: Provided, That when Senators have been elected during a session to succeed appointees, but have not qualified, the salaries of Senators so elected shall commence on the day following the sine die adjournment of the Senate.

When no appointments have been made the salaries of Senators elected to fill such vacancies shall commence on the day following their election. (Feb. 13, 1935, ch. 6, § 1, 49 Stat. 22, 23.)

SIMILAR PROVISIONS

1894-July 31, 1894, ch. 174, 28 Stat. 162.

1873-R.S. §51.

CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS

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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."

§36a. Payment of sums due deceased Senators and Senate personnel. 226 Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Senate, a person serving as a Senator or officer or employee whose compensation is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate may designate a beneficiary or beneficiaries to be paid any unpaid balance of salary or other sums due such person at the time of his death. When any person dies while so serving, any such unpaid balance shall be paid by the disbursing officer of the Senate to the designated beneficiary or beneficiaries. If no designation has been made, such unpaid balance shall be paid to the widow or widower of that person, or if there is no widow or widower, to the next of kin or heirs at law of that person. (Jan. 6, 1951, ch. 1213, § 1, 64 Stat. 1224; Oct. 31, 1972, Pub. L. 92-607, § 503, 86 Stat. 1505.)

§ 39. Deductions for absence.

The Secretary of the Senate and Sergeant at Arms of the House, respectively, shall deduct from the monthly payments (or other periodic payments authorized by law) of each Member or Delegate the amount of his salary for each day that he has been absent from the Senate or House, respectively, unless such Member or Delegate assigns as the reason for such absence the sickness of himself or of some member of his family. (R.S. § 40; Oct. 1, 1981, Pub. L. 97-51, §112(d), 95 Stat. 963.)

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228 $40. Deductions for withdrawal.

When any Member or Delegate withdraws from his seat and does not return before the adjournment of Congress, he shall, in addition to the sum deducted for each day, forfeit a sum equal to the amount which would have been allowed by law for his mileage in returning home; and such sum shall be deducted from his compensation, unless the withdrawal is with the leave of the Senate or House of Representatives, respectively. (R.S. § 41.)

229 § 40a. Deductions for delinquent indebtedness.

Whenever a Representative, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, or a United States Senator, shall fail to pay any sum or sums due from such person to the House of Representatives or Senate respectively the appropriate committee or officer of the House of Representatives or Senate, as the case may be, having jurisdiction or the activity under which such debt arose, shall certify such delinquent sum or sums to the Sergeant at Arms of the House in the case of an indebtedness to the House of Representatives and to the Secretary of the Senate in the case of an indebtedness to the Senate, and such latter officials are authorized and directed, respectively, to deduct from any salary, mileage, or expense money due to any such delinquent such certified amounts or so much thereof as the balance or balances due such delinquent may cover. Sums so deducted by the Secretary of the Senate shall be disposed of by him in accordance with existing law, and sums so deducted by the Sergeant at Arms of the House shall be paid to the Clerk of the House and disposed of by him in accordance with existing law. (June 19, 1934, ch. 648, § 1, 48 Stat. 1024.)

231 § 42a. Air mail and special-delivery postage allowances for President of the Senate.

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The Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed to procure and furnish each fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982) to the President of the Senate, upon request by such person, United States special-delivery postage stamps in such amount as may be necessary for the mailing of postal matters arising in connection with his official business. (July 2, 1954, ch. 455, § 101, 68 Stat. 402; Aug. 5, 1955, ch. 568, 69 Stat. 503; June 27, 1956, ch. 453, 70 Stat. 359; July 31, 1958, Pub. L. 85-570, 72 Stat. 442; July 12, 1960, Pub. L. 86-628, 74 Stat. 449; Dec. 30, 1963, Pub. L. 88-248, 77 Stat. 805; July 27, 1965, Pub. L. 89-90,

79 Stat. 268; July 23, 1968, Pub. L. 90-417, 82 Stat. 400; Dec. 12, 1969, Pub. L. 91-145, § 101, 83 Stat. 342; July 9, 1971, Pub. L. 92-51, § 101, 85 Stat. 128; Oct. 31, 1972, Pub. L. 92-607, § 506(h)(1), 86 Stat. 1508, Oct. 1, 1981, Pub. L. 97-51, § 127, 95 Stat. 965.)

232 § 43. Mileage of Senators, Representatives, and Delegates.

Each Senator, Representative, and Delegate shall receive mileage at the rate of 20 cents per mile, to be estimated by the nearest route usually traveled in going to and returning from each regular session. (July 28, 1866, ch. 296, § 17, 14 Stat. 323.)

233 § 43a. Mileage of President of Senate.

On and after July 1, 1935, the President of the Senate shall be paid mileage at the same rate and in the same manner as now allowed by law

to Senators, Members of the House of Representatives, and Delegates in Congress. (July 8, 1935, ch. 374, § 1, 49 Stat. 459.)

§ 43d. Organizational expenses of Senator-elect.

(a) Upon the recommendation of a Senator-elect (other than an incumbent Senator or a Senator elected to fill a vacancy), the Secretary of the Senate shall appoint two employees to assist such Senator-elect. Any employee so appointed shall serve through the day before the date on which the Senator-elect recommending his appointment commences his service as a Senator, except that his employment may be terminated before such day upon recommendation of such Senator-elect.

(b)(1) Salaries of employees appointed under subsection (a) of this section shall be paid from the appropriation for “Administrative, Clerical, and Legislative Assistance to Senators".

(2) Salaries paid to employees appointed upon recommendation of a Senator-elect under subsection (a) of this section shall be charged against the amount of compensation which may be paid to employees in his office under section 61-1(d) of this title (hereinafter referred to as the “clerk-hire allowance"), for the fiscal year in which his service as a Senator commences. The total amount of salaries paid to employees so appointed upon recommendation of a Senator-elect shall be charged against his clerk-hire allowance for each month in such fiscal year beginning with the month in which his service as a Senator commences (until the total amount has been charged) by whichever of the following amounts is greater: (1) one-ninth of the amount of salaries so paid, or (2) the amount by which the aggregate amount of his clerk-hire allowance which may be paid as of the close of such month under section 611(d)(1)(B) of this title exceed the aggregate amount of his clerk-hire allowance actually paid as of the close of such month.

(c) Each Senator-elect and each employee appointed under subsection (a) of this section is authorized one round trip from the home State of the Senator-elect to Washington, D.C., and return, for the purposes of attending conferences, caucuses, or organizational meetings, or for any other official business connected with the impending Congress. In addition, each Senator-elect and each such employee is authorized per diem for not more then seven days while en route to and from Washington, D.C., and while in Washington, D.C. Such transportation and per diem expenses shall be in the same amounts as are payable to Senators and employees in the office of a Senator under section 58(e) of this title, and shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon itemized vouchers certified by the Senator-elect concerned and approved by the Secretary of the Senate.

(d)(1) Each Senator-elect is authorized to be reimbursed for expenses incurred for telegrams and telephone services related to his position as a Senator-elect in an amount not exceeding one-twelfth of the total amount of expenses authorized to be paid to or on behalf of a Senator from the State which he will represent under section 58 of this title. Reimbursement to a Senator-elect under this subsection shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon itemized vouchers certified by such Senator-elect and approved by the Secretary of the Senate. (2) Amounts reimbursed to a Senator-elect under this subsection shall be charged against the amount of expenses which are authorized to be paid to him or on his behalf under section 58 of this title, for each of the twelve months beginning with the month in which his service as a

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Senator commences (until all of such amounts have been charged) by whichever of the following amounts is greater: (1) one-twelfth of the amounts so reimbursed, or (2) the amount by which the aggregate amount authorized to be so paid under section 58(c) of this title as of the close of such months exceeds the aggregate amount actually paid under such section 58 of this title as of the close of such month. (Sept. 8, 1978, Pub. L. 95-355, Title I, § 105(a)–(d), 92 Stat. 534).

236 § 46a. Stationery allowance for President of the Senate.

Effective April 1, 1975, and each fiscal year thereafter, the allowance for stationery for the President of the Senate shall be at the rate of $4,500 per annum. (Jan. 6, 1964, Pub. L. 88-258, 77 Stat. 864; May 29, 1967, Pub. L. 90-21, 81 Stat. 38; Dec. 12, 1969, Pub. L. 91-145, § 101, 83 Stat. 342; July 9, 1971, Pub. L. 92-51, § 101, 85 Stat. 128; Dec. 15, 1971, Pub. L. 92-184, § 401, 85 Stat. 635; Oct. 31, 1972, Pub. L. 92-607, § 506(h)(3), 86 Stat. 1508; June 12, 1975, Pub. L. 94-32, Title I, § 101, 89 Stat. 182.)

237 § 46a.-1. Revolving fund for stationery allowances; availability of unexpended balances; withdrawals.

There is established within the contingent fund of the Senate a revolving fund which shall consist of (1) the unexpended balance of the appropriation "Contingent Expenses, Senate, Stationery, fiscal year 1957", (2) any amounts hereafter appropriated for stationery allowances of the President of the Senate, and for stationery for use of officers of the Senate and the Conference of the Majority and the Conference of the Minority of the Senate, and (3) any undeposited amounts heretofore received, and any amounts hereafter received as proceeds of sales by the stationery room of the Senate. Any moneys in the fund shall be available until expended for use in the same manner and for the same purposes as funds heretofore appropriated to the contingent fund of the Senate for stationery, except that (1) the balance of any amount appropriated for stationery for use of committees and officers of the Senate which remains unexpended at the end of any fiscal year and (2) allowances which are not available for obligation due to vacancies or waiver of entitlement thereto, shall be withdrawn from the revolving fund. (June 21, 1957, Pub. L. 85-58, § 1101, 71 Stat. 188; Oct. 31, 1972, Pub. L. 92-607, § 506(i), 86 Stat. 1508; July 8, 1980, Pub. L. 96-304, §112(b)(3), 96 Stat. 889, 892.) 237.1 § 46a-3. Senate stationery allowances; availability.1

[The stationery allowance, as authorized by law, for each Senator shall hereafter be available only for (1) purchases made through the Senate stationery room of stationery and other office supplies for use for official business, and (2) reimbursement upon presentation, within thirty days after the close of the fiscal year for which the allowance is provided, of receipted invoices for purchases elsewhere of stationery and other office supplies (excluding items not ordinarily available in the Senate stationery room) for use for official business in an office maintained by a Senator in his home State. Any part of the allowance for stationery which remains unobligated at the end of the fiscal year 1969 or any

This provision was repealed in respect to Senators (sec. 506(h)(4) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1973; Oct. 31, 1972, Pub. L. 92–607, § 506(h)(4), 86 Stat. 1508), but continues to be applicable to the President of the Senate (see sec. 46a-4, Senate Manual section 237.2.

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