I-SEARCH (tm) V1.89P Retrieved Documents Listing on 10/11/93 at 05:15:00. Database: USCODE Search: (3:CITE) ------DocID 7763 Document 1 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC TITLE 3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 -HEAD- TITLE 3 - THE PRESIDENT -MISC1- THIS TITLE WAS ENACTED BY ACT JUNE 25, 1948, CH. 644, SEC. 1, 62 STAT. 672 Chap. Sec. 1. Presidential Elections and Vacancies 1 2. Office and Compensation of President 101 3. Protection of the President; the White House Police (FOOTNOTE 1) 201 (FOOTNOTE 1) Chapter heading amended by Pub. L. 95-179 without a corresponding amendment of chapter analysis. 4. Delegation of Functions 301 AMENDMENTS 1951 - Act Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, Sec. 4, 65 Stat. 711, added heading of chapter 4. POSITIVE LAW; CITATION This title has been made positive law by section 1 of act June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 672, which provided in part that: 'Title 3 of the United States Code, entitled 'The President', is codified and enacted into positive law and may be cited as '3 U. S. C., Sec. - .' ' SAVINGS CLAUSE Section 2 of act June 25, 1948, provided that: 'The provisions of title 3, 'The President', set out in section 1 of this Act, shall be construed as a continuation of existing law and no loss of rights, interruption of jurisdiction, nor prejudice to matters pending on the effective date of this Act shall result from its enactment.' REPEALS Section 3 of act June 25, 1948, provided that the sections or parts thereof of the Statutes at Large or the Revised Statutes covering provisions codified in this Act are repealed insofar as the provisions appeared in former Title 3, and provided that any rights or liabilities now existing under the repealed sections or parts thereof shall not be affected by the repeal. PRIOR REPEALS Former sections 21 and 22 relating to performance of presidential duties in absence of both the President and Vice President were repealed by act July 18, 1947, ch. 264, Sec. 1(g), 61 Stat. 381. Table Showing Disposition of All Sections of Former Title 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Title 3 Former Revised Statutes Title 3 New Sections Sections Statutes at Large --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 R.S. Sec. 131 1 2 R.S. Sec. 132 3 3 R.S. Sec. 133 4 4 R.S. Sec. 134 2 5 Feb. 3, 1887, ch. 7 90, Sec. 1, 24 Stat. 373 5a May 29, 1928, ch. 7 859, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 945 June 5, 1934, ch. 390, Sec. 6(a), 48 Stat. 879 6 Feb. 3, 1887, ch. 5 90, Sec. 2, 24 Stat. 373 7 Feb. 3, 1887, ch. 6 90, Sec. 3, 24 Stat. 373 7a May 29, 1928, ch. 6 859, Sec. 2, 45 Stat. 946 8 R.S. Sec. 137 8 9 R.S. Sec. 138 9 9a May 29, 1928, ch. 9 859, Sec. 3, 45 Stat. 946 10 R.S. Sec. 139 10 11 R.S. Sec. 140 11 Oct. 19, 1888, ch. 1216, Sec. 1, 25 Stat. 613 11a May 29, 1928, ch. 11 859, Sec. 4, 45 Stat. 946 11b May 29, 1928, ch. 12 859, Sec. 5, 45 Stat. 946 June 5, 1934, ch. 390, Sec. 6(b), 48 Stat. 879 11c May 29, 1928, ch. 13 859, Sec. 6, 45 Stat. 946 June 5, 1934, ch. 390, Sec. 6(c), 48 Stat. 879 12 Oct. 19, 1888, ch. 11, 12 1216, Sec. 1, 25 Stat. 613 13 R.S. Sec. 141 13 Oct. 19, 1888, ch. 1216, Sec. 2, 25 Stat. 613 14 R.S. Sec. 143 11 15 R.S. Sec. 144 11 16 R.S. Sec. 145 14 17 Feb. 3, 1887, ch. 15 90, Sec. 4, 24 Stat. 373 June 5, 1934, ch. 390, Sec. 7, 48 Stat. 879 18 Feb. 3, 1887, ch. 18 90, Sec. 5, 24 Stat. 374 19 Feb. 3, 1887, ch. 17 90, Sec. 6, 24 Stat. 375 20 Feb. 3, 1887, ch. 16 90, Sec. 7, 24 Stat. 375 21 Jan. 19, 1886, ch. 19 4, Sec. 1, 24 Stat. 1 22 Jan. 19, 1886, ch. 19 4, Sec. 2, 24 Stat. 1 23 R.S. Sec. 151 20 24 July 18, 1947, ch. 19 264, Sec. 1(a-f), 61 Stat. 380, 381 July 26, 1947, ch. 343, Sec. 311, 61 Stat. 509 41 R.S. Sec. 152 101 June 5, 1934, ch. 390, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 879 42 R.S. Sec. 153 102 Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 297, Sec. 1, 35 Stat. 859 43 June 23, 1906, ch. 103 3523, 34 Stat. 454 Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 744, Sec. 17(c), 60 Stat. 811. 44 R.S. Sec. 154 104 Feb. 26, 1907, ch. 1635, Sec. 4, 34 Stat. 993 Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 549, Sec. 4, 43 Stat. 1301 Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 753, Sec. 601(a), 60 Stat. 850. 45 Apr. 22, 1926, ch. 105 171, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 305 45a Apr. 3, 1939, ch. 106 36, Sec. 301, 53 Stat. 565 46 June 12, 1922, ch. 107 218, 42 Stat. 636 Feb. 13, 1923, ch. 72, 42 Stat. 1227 June 7, 1924, ch. 292, Sec. 1, 43 Stat. 521 Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 468, Sec. 1, 43 Stat. 1198, 1199. Apr. 22, 1926, ch. 171, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 305 Feb. 11, 1927, ch. 104, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 1069 May 16, 1928, ch. 580, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 573 Feb. 20, 1929, ch. 270, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 1230 Apr. 19, 1930, ch. 201, Sec. 1, 46 Stat. 229 Feb. 23, 1931, ch. 281, Sec. 1, 46 Stat. 1355 June 30, 1932, ch. 330, Sec. 1, 47 Stat. 452 June 16, 1933, ch. 101, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 284 Mar. 28, 1934, ch. 102, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 509 Feb. 2, 1935, ch. 3, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 6 Mar. 19, 1936, ch. 156, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 1148 June 28, 1937, ch. 396, Sec. 1, 50 Stat. 350 May 23, 1938, ch. 259, Sec. 1, 52 Stat. 411 Mar. 16, 1939, ch. 11, Sec. 1, 53 Stat 524 Apr. 8, 1940, ch. 107, Sec. 1, 54 Stat. 112 Apr. 5, 1941, ch. 40, Sec. 1, 55 Stat. 93 June 27, 1942, ch. 450, Sec. 1, 56 Stat. 392 June 26, 1943, ch. 145, Sec. 101, 57 Stat. 169. June 27, 1944, ch. 286, Sec. 101, 58 Stat. 361. May 3, 1945, ch. 106, Sec. 101, 59 Stat. 106 Mar. 28, 1946, ch. 113, Sec. 101, 60 Stat. 61 47 Mar. 4, 1911, ch. 108 285, Sec. 1, 36 Stat. 1404 48 June 25, 1910, ch. 109 384, Sec. 9, 36 Stat. 773 49 R.S. Sec. 1829 110 Feb. 26, 1925, ch. 377, Sec. 1, 2, 43 Stat. 1091. 50 R.S. Sec. 1832 109 51 R.S. Sec. 1833 109 52 RS. Sec. 1834 109 53 June 23, 1913, ch. 201 3, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 23 54 June 9, 1941, ch. Elim. 189, 55 Stat. 247 61 Sept. 14, 1922, ch. 202 308, Sec. 1, 42 Stat. 841 May 14, 1930, ch. 277, Sec. 1, 46 Stat. 328 62 Sept. 14, 1922, ch. 203 308, Sec. 2, 42 Stat. 841 May 14, 1930, ch. 277, Sec. 2, 46 Stat. 328 May 28, 1935, ch. 154, 49 Stat. 304 Apr. 22, 1940, ch. 133, 54 Stat. 156 June 9, 1947, ch. 102, 61 Stat. 132 62a Oct. 9, 1942, ch. 205 582, Sec. 1, 56 Stat. 778 62b Oct. 9, 1942, ch. 206 582, Sec. 2, 56 Stat. 778 63 Sept. 14, 1922, ch. 204 308, Sec. 3, 42 Stat. 842 May 14, 1930, ch. 277, Sec. 3, 46 Stat. 328 64 Sept. 14, 1922, ch. 207 308, Sec. 4, 42 Stat. 842 65 Sept. 14, 1922, ch. Rep. 308, Sec. 5, 42 Stat. 842 66 Sept. 14, 1922, ch. Rep. 308, Sec. 6, 42 Stat. 842 67 Sept. 14, 1922, ch. 208 308, Sec. 7, 42 Stat. 843 May 14, 1930, ch. 277, Sec. 4, 46 Stat. 329 ------------------------------- ------DocID 7767 Document 2 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 3. Number of electors -STATUTE- The number of electors shall be equal to the number of Senators and Representatives to which the several States are by law entitled at the time when the President and Vice President to be chosen come into office; except, that where no apportionment of Representatives has been made after any enumeration, at the time of choosing electors, the number of electors shall be according to the then existing apportionment of Senators and Representatives. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 672.) ------DocID 7801 Document 3 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC CHAPTER 3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 3 -HEAD- CHAPTER 3 - PROTECTION OF THE PRESIDENT; UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE UNIFORMED DIVISION -MISC1- Sec. (201. Repealed.) 202. United States Secret Service Uniformed Division; establishment, control, and supervision; privileges, powers, and duties. 203. Personnel, appointment, and vacancies. 204. Grades, salaries, and transfers of appointees. 205. (FOOTNOTE 1) Appointment in accordance with civil-service laws. (FOOTNOTE 1) Section repealed without amending analysis. 206. Privileges of civil-service appointees. 207. Participation in police and firemen's relief fund. 208. Reimbursement of State and local governments. 209. Appropriation to carry out provisions. AMENDMENTS 1977 - Pub. L. 95-179, Nov. 15, 1977, 91 Stat. 1371, substituted 'United States Secret Service Uniformed Division' for 'Executive Protective Service' in chapter heading and in item 202. 1975 - Pub. L. 94-196, Sec. 1(d)(2), Dec. 31, 1975, 89 Stat. 1110, added item 208 and renumbered former item 208 as 209. 1970 - Pub. L. 91-217, Sec. 1(2), Mar. 19, 1970, 84 Stat. 74, substituted 'Executive Protective Service' for 'White House Police' in chapter heading and in item 202. 1951 - Act July 16, 1951, ch. 226, Sec. 5(b), 65 Stat. 122, struck out item 201 'Protection of President and family authorized'. ------DocID 6919 Document 4 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 3, 4 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 3, 4. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section 3, act Aug. 8, 1911, ch. 5, Sec. 3, 37 Stat. 14, which related to election by districts, expired by its own limitation upon enactment of Reapportionment Act of June 18, 1929, ch. 28, Sec. 22, 46 Stat. 21 (section 2a of this title). It was not restated in act June 18, 1929, providing for reapportionment under Fifteenth Census, and hence it was not applicable thereto. See Wood v. Brown, 1932 (53 S. Ct. 1, 287 U.S. 1, 77 L. Ed. 131). Section 4, act Aug. 8, 1911, ch. 5, Sec. 4, 37 Stat. 14, which related to additional Representatives at large, expired by its own limitation upon enactment of Reapportionment Act of June 18, 1929, ch. 28, Sec. 22, 46 Stat. 21 (section 2a of this title). It was not restated in act June 18, 1929, providing for reapportionment under Fifteenth Census, and hence it was not applicable thereto. See Wood v. Brown, 1932 (53 S. Ct. 1, 287 U.S. 1, 77 L. Ed. 131). ------DocID 6947 Document 5 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC CHAPTER 3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 3 -HEAD- CHAPTER 3 - COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS -MISC1- Sec. 31. Compensation of Members of Congress. 31-1. Maximum amount of honoraria which may be accepted by Members of Congress. (a) Definitions. (b) Maximum as percentage of aggregate salary. (c) Honoraria paid to charitable organizations. 31-2. Gifts and travel. (a) Gifts. (b) Limits on domestic and foreign travel by Members and staff of Senate. 31a. Repealed. 31a-1. Expense allowance of Majority and Minority Leaders of Senate; expense allowance of Majority and Minority Whips; methods of payment; taxability. 31a-2. Representation Allowance Account for Majority and Minority Leaders of Senate. (a) Establishment; purpose. (b) Payments; allotment; reimbursement for actual expenses; taxability. (c) Authorization of appropriations. 31a-2a. Transfer of funds from representation allowance of Majority and Minority Leaders of Senate to expense allowance; availability; definitions. 31a-3. Expense allowance for Chairmen of Majority and Minority Conference Committees of Senate; method of payment; taxability. 31b. Expense allowance of Speaker of House of Representatives. 31b-1. Former Speakers of House of Representatives; retention of office, furniture, etc., in Congressional district following expiration of term as Representative; exceptions. 31b-2. Allowance available to former Speaker for payment of office and other expenses for administration, etc., of matters pertaining to incumbency in office as Representative and Speaker. 31b-3. Repealed. 31b-4. Franked mail and printing privileges of former Speaker. 31b-5. Staff assistance to former Speaker for administration, etc., of matters pertaining to incumbency in office as Representative and Speaker; compensation and status of staff. 31b-6, 31c. Repealed. 32. Compensation of President pro tempore of Senate. 32a. Compensation of Deputy President pro tempore of Senate. 32b. Expense allowance of President pro tempore of Senate; methods of payment; taxability. 33. Senators' salaries. 34. Representatives' and Delegates' salaries payable monthly. 35. Salaries payable monthly after taking oath. 35a. End-of-the-month salary payment schedule inapplicable to Senators. 36. Salaries of Senators. 36a. Payment of sums due deceased Senators and Senate personnel. 37. Salaries of Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners elected for unexpired terms. 38. Omitted. 38a. Disposition of unpaid salary and other sums upon death of Representative or Resident Commissioner. 38b. Death gratuity payments as gifts. 39. Deductions for absence. 40. Deductions for withdrawal. 40a. Deductions for delinquent indebtedness. 41. Newspapers. 42. Postage. 42a. Special delivery postage allowance for President of Senate. 42a-1, 42b. Omitted. 42c. Airmail and special delivery stamps for House Members and standing committees. 42d. Airmail and special delivery stamps for House Speaker, leaders, whips, and officers. 43. Mileage of Senators, Representatives, and Delegates. 43a. Mileage of President of Senate. 43b. Reimbursement of House Members for additional transportation expenses. 43b-1. Election by House Members of lump sum transportation payment in lieu of reimbursement of transportation expenses. 43b-2. Staff expenses for House Members attending organizational caucus or conference. 43b-3. Payments and reimbursements for certain House staff expenses. 43c. Repealed. 43d. Organizational expenses of Senator-elect. (a) Appointment of employees by Secretary of Senate to assist; termination of employment. (b) Payment of salaries of appointed employees; funding; maximum amount. (c) Payment of transportation and per diem expenses of Senator-elect and appointed employees for one round trip from home State to Washington, D.C. for business of impending Congress; funding; maximum amount. (d) Payment of telegram and telephone charges incurred by Senator-elect; funding; maximum amount. 44 to 46. Omitted. 46a. Stationery allowance for President of Senate. 46a-1. Senate revolving fund for stationery allowances; availability of unexpended balances; withdrawals. 46a-2 to 46a-4. Omitted or Repealed. 46b. Stationery allowance for House Members. 46b-1. House revolving fund for stationery allowances; disposition of moneys from stationery sales; availability of unexpended balances. 46b-2. Prorated stationery allowance for House Members. 46c, 46d. Repealed. 46d-1. Long-distance telephone calls for Vice President. 46d-2 to 46f-1. Repealed or Omitted. 46g. Telephone, telegraph, and radiotelegraph allowances for House Members. 46g-1. Telephone allowances for House Members for strictly official telephone service. 46h. Repealed. 46i. Definitions. 47. Mode of payment. 48. Certification of salary and mileage accounts. 49. Certificate of salary during recess. 50. Substitute to sign certificates for salary and accounts. 51. Monuments to deceased Senators or House Members. 52, 53. Repealed. 54. United States Code Annotated or Federal Code Annotated; procurement for House Members. 55. United States Code Annotated or United States Code Service; procurement for Senators. 56. Office expenses within the District of Columbia of the Delegate from the District of Columbia. 57. Adjustment of allowances by Committee on House Administration. 57a. Limitation on authority of Committee on House Administration to fix and adjust allowances. 58. Mail, telegraph, telephone, stationery, office supplies, and home State office and travel expenses for Senators. (a) Authorization for payment from Senate contingent fund. (b) Limits for authorized expenses; recalculation formula. (c), (d) Repealed. (e) Transportation, essential travel-related expenses, and per diem expenses; coverage; limitations; amounts. (f) Omitted. (g) Closing of deceased Senator's State offices. (h) Individuals serving on panels or other bodies recommending nominees for Federal judgeships, service academies, United States Attorneys, or United States Marshals. (i) Authorization of Secretary of Senate to pay reimbursable expenses. (j) Advances from Senate contingent fund for travel expenses for official business trips; vouchers; settlement. 58a. Telecommunications services for Senators; payment of costs out of contingent fund. 58a-1. Payment for telecommunications equipment and services; definitions. 58a-2. Certification of telecommunications equipment and services as official. (a) Regulations issued by Committee on Rules and Administration. (b) Equipment and services provided on reimbursable basis. (c) Establishment of reasonable charges. (d) Disposition of moneys received. (e) Committee authority to classify or reclassify equipment and services. 58a-3. Report on telecommunications to Committee on Rules and Administration. 58a-4. Metered charges on copiers; 'Sergeant at Arms' and 'user' defined; certification of services and equipment as official; deposit of payments; availability for expenditure. 58b. Repealed. 58c. Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense Account. 58c-1. Transfer of funds by Members of Senate from Senate Official Mail Costs Account to Senator's Official Personnel and Office Expense Account; writing respecting transfer to Financial Clerk of Senate; available amount and uses. 59. Home State office space for Senators; lease of office space. (a) Procurement by Sergeant at Arms of Senate in places designated by Senator; places subject to use; lease of office space. (b) Maximum amount of aggregate square feet for each Senator. (c) Maximum annual rental rate; maximum aggregate amount for acquisition of furniture, equipment, and other office furnishings. (d) Senators subject to maximum amount of aggregate square feet and maximum annual rental rate. (e) Mobile office. 59a. Repealed. 59b. Purchase of office equipment or furnishings by Senators. (a) Authorization; conditions. (b) Request by Senator and arrangement for purchase by Sergeant at Arms of Senate; regulations governing purchase; price. (c) Remittance of amounts received to General Services Administration; disposition. 59c. Transferred. 59d. Transportation of official records and papers to House Members' district. (a) Payment of reasonable expenses from contingent fund of House; rules and regulations. (b) 'Member' and 'official records and papers' defined. 59e. Official mail of persons entitled to use congressional frank. (a) Congressional committee regulations for expenditure of appropriations for official mail. (b) Postmaster General functions. (c) Source of funds for expenses of official mail. (d) Maintenance or use of unofficial office accounts or defrayal of official expenses from certain funds prohibited. (e) Official Mail Allowance in House of Representatives. (f) Mass mailing; submission of samples or description of proposed mail matter; advisory opinion. (g) 'Member of the House of Reperesentatives' and 'person entitled to use the congressional frank' defined. (h) Omitted. (i) Effective date. 59f. Mass mailings by Senate offices; quarterly statements; publication of summary tabulations. 59g. Mass mailing of information by Senators under frank; quarterly registration with Secretary of Senate. ------DocID 6955 Document 6 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 31a-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 3 -HEAD- Sec. 31a-3. Expense allowance for Chairmen of Majority and Minority Conference Committees of Senate; method of payment; taxability -STATUTE- For each fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985), there is hereby authorized an expense allowance for the Chairmen of the Majority and Minority Conference Committees which shall not exceed $3,000 each fiscal year for each such Chairman; and amounts from such allowance shall be paid to either of such Chairmen only as reimbursement for actual expenses incurred by him and upon certification and documentation of such expenses, and amounts so paid shall not be reported as income and shall not be allowed as a deduction under title 26. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 99-88, title I, Aug. 15, 1985, 99 Stat. 348.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section is from the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1985. ------DocID 6959 Document 7 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 31b-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 3 -HEAD- Sec. 31b-3. Repealed. Pub. L. 99-151, title I, Sec. 102(b), Nov. 13, 1985, 99 Stat. 797 -MISC1- Section, based on H. Res. No. 1238, Sec. 3, Dec. 23, 1970, enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 91-665, ch. VIII, Jan. 8, 1971, 84 Stat. 1989; Pub. L. 93-532, Sec. 1(a), Dec. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 1723, provided for reimbursement of the former Speaker of the House for telephone service charges for administration, etc., of matters pertaining to incumbency in office as Representative and Speaker. ------DocID 6991 Document 8 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 43b-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 3 -HEAD- Sec. 43b-3. Payments and reimbursements for certain House staff expenses -STATUTE- (a) Payments and reimbursements to staff persons under section 43b-2 of this title shall be made as provided (with respect to staff) in the regulations prescribed by the Committee on House Administration with respect to travel and other expenses of staff. Reimbursements shall be paid on special voucher forms prescribed by the Committee on House Administration. (b) Additional funds, if any, for staff allowances and office space for use by Members-elect (other than an incumbent Member reelected to the ensuing Congress) shall be authorized by the Committee on House Administration. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 94-59, title II, July 25, 1975, 89 Stat. 282.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section is based on section 2 of House Resolution No. 10, Ninety-fourth Congress, Jan. 14, 1975, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 94-59. ------DocID 6998 Document 9 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 46a-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 3 -HEAD- Sec. 46a-3. Repealed. Pub. L. 92-607, ch. V, Sec. 506(k)(4), formerly Sec. 506(h)(4), Oct. 31, 1972, 86 Stat. 1508, redesignated Sec. 506(i)(4), Pub. L. 95-391, title I, Sec. 108(a), Sept. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 773, redesignated Sec. 506(j)(4), Pub. L. 96-304, title I, Sec. 101, July 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 889, redesignated Sec. 506(k)(4), Pub. L. 97-276, Sec. 101(e), Oct. 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 1189 -MISC1- Section, Pub. L. 90-417, Sec. 106, July 23, 1968, 82 Stat. 413, placed limits on the availability of the stationery allowance for Senators. See section 58 of this title. EFFECTIVE DATE OF REPEAL Section 506(k), formerly Sec. 506(h), of Pub. L. 92-607, as amended by Pub. L. 93-145, Sec. 101, Nov. 1, 1973, 87 Stat. 532, and redesignated Sec. 506(i) by Pub. L. 95-391, title I, Sec. 108(a), Sept. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 773, redesignated Sec. 506(j) by Pub. L. 96-304, title I, Sec. 101, July 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 889, and redesignated Sec. 506(k) by Pub. L. 97-276, Sec. 101(e), Oct. 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 1189, provided that, insofar as this section has application to Senators, the repeal is effective Jan. 1, 1973. ------DocID 7006 Document 10 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 46d-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 3 -HEAD- Sec. 46d-3. Repealed. Pub. L. 92-184, ch. IV, Dec. 15, 1971, 85 Stat. 635 -MISC1- Section, Pub. L. 90-21, title I, May 29, 1967, 81 Stat. 38, made contingent fund of Senate available for reimbursement of each Senator of strictly official telephone service charges incurred outside District of Columbia up to $300 in each fiscal quarter. See section 58 of this title. EFFECTIVE DATE OF REPEAL Pub. L. 92-184 provided that the repeal is effective Jan. 1, 1972. ------DocID 7031 Document 11 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 58a-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 3 -HEAD- Sec. 58a-3. Report on telecommunications to Committee on Rules and Administration -STATUTE- The Sergeant at Arms shall report to the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, at such time or times, and in such form and manner, as the Committee may direct, on expenditures made, and revenues received, pursuant to sections 58a-1 to 58a-3 of this title. It shall be the function of the Sergeant at Arms to advise the Committee, as soon as possible, of any dispute regarding payments to and from such Appropriation Account as related to the line item for Telecommunications, including any amounts due and unpaid by any user, if any such dispute has remained unresolved for a period of at least 60 days. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 100-123, Sec. 3, Oct. 5, 1987, 101 Stat. 795.) -MISC1- EFFECTIVE DATE Section effective Oct. 1, 1987, see section 4 of Pub. L. 100-123, set out as a note under section 58a-1 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 58a-1, 58a-2 of this title. ------DocID 7058 Document 12 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 60c-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 60c-3. Withholding and remittance of State income tax by Secretary of Senate -STATUTE- (a) Agreement by Secretary with appropriate State official; covered individuals Whenever - (1) the law of any State provides for the collection of an income tax by imposing upon employers generally the duty of withholding sums from the compensation of employees and remitting such sums to the authorities of such State; and (2) such duty to withhold is imposed generally with respect to the compensation of employees who are residents of such State; then the Secretary of the Senate is authorized, in accordance with the provisions of this section to enter into an agreement with the appropriate official of that State to provide for the withholding and remittance of sums for individuals - (A) whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary; and (B) who request the Secretary to make such withholdings for remittance to that State. (b) Number of remittances authorized Any agreement entered into under subsection (a) of this section shall not require the Secretary to remit such sums more often than once each calendar quarter. (c) Requests by individuals of Secretary for withholding and remittance; amount of withholding; number and effective date of requests; change of designated State; revocation of request; rules and regulations (1) An individual whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary may request the Secretary to withhold sums from his pay for remittance to the appropriate authorities of the State that he designates. Amounts of withholdings shall be made in accordance with those provisions of the law of that State which apply generally to withholding by employers. (2) An individual may have in effect at any time only one request for withholdings, and he may not have more than two such requests in effect with respect to different States during any one calendar year. The request for withholdings is effective on the first day of the first month commencing after the day on which the request is received in the Disbursing Office of the Senate, except that - (A) when the Secretary first enters into an agreement with a State, a request for withholdings shall be effective on such date as the Secretary may determine; and (B) when an individual first receives an appointment, the request shall be effective on the day of appointment, if the individual makes the request at the time of appointment. (3) An individual may change the State designated by him for the purposes of having withholdings made and request that the withholdings be remitted in accordance with such change, and he may also revoke his request for withholdings. Any change in the State designated or revocation is effective on the first day of the first month commencing after the day on which the request for change or the revocation is received in the Disbursing Office. (4) The Secretary is authorized to issue rules and regulations he considers appropriate in carrying out this subsection. (d) Time or times of agreements by Secretary The Secretary may enter into agreements under subsection (a) of this section at such time or times as he considers appropriate. (e) Provisions as not imposing duty, burden, requirement or penalty on United States, Senate, or any officer or employee of United States; effect of filing paper, form, or document with Secretary This section imposes no duty, burden, or requirement upon the United States, the Senate, or any officer or employee of the United States, except as specifically provided in this section. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to consent to the application of any provision of law which has the effect of subjecting the United States, the Senate, or any officer or employee of the United States to any penalty or liability by reason of the provisions of this section. Any paper, form, or document filed with the Secretary under this section is a paper of the Senate within the provisions of rule XXX of the Standing Rules of the Senate. (f) 'State' defined For the purposes of this section, 'State' means any of the States of the United States and the District of Columbia. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 93-371, Sec. 2, Aug. 13, 1974, 88 Stat. 427.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The Standing Rules of the Senate, referred to in subsec. (e), were revised generally in 1979. Provisions relating to withdrawal of papers from the files of the Senate which were formerly contained in Rule XXX of the Standing Rules of the Senate are contained in Rule XI of the Standing Rules of the Senate. -CROSS- CROSS REFERENCES Withholding of District of Columbia and State income taxes by Clerk and Sergeant at Arms of House, see section 60e-1a of this title. Withholding of District of Columbia and State income taxes generally, see sections 5516 and 5517 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Withholding of State income taxes by Architect of Capitol, see section 166b-5 of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works. ------DocID 7070 Document 13 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 60e-3 to 60e-14 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 60e-3 to 60e-14. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Sections were omitted as obsolete and superseded. See section 61-1 of this title and chapter 10A (Sec. 331 et seq.) of this title. Section 60e-3, acts June 30, 1945, ch. 212, title V, Sec. 501, 59 Stat. 301; May 24, 1946, ch. 270, Sec. 5(a), (b), 60 Stat. 217; June 23, 1949, ch. 238, Sec. 5, 63 Stat. 265, provided for payment of additional compensation to legislative branch employees. Section 60e-4, acts June 30, 1945, ch. 212, title V, Sec. 502, 59 Stat. 301; May 24, 1946, ch. 270, Sec. 5(c), 60 Stat. 217, provided for payment of additional compensation to legislative branch employees. Section 60e-4a, act July 3, 1948, ch. 830, title III, Sec. 301, 62 Stat. 1267, provided for payment of additional compensation to employees of the Federal Government and the District of Columbia government. Section 60e-5, acts Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 783, title I, Sec. 101(a), (b), 63 Stat. 974; June 28, 1955, ch. 189, Sec. 4(e)(1), 69 Stat. 177, provided for payment of additional compensation to and an annual limit on compensation for legislative branch employees. Section 60e-6, acts Oct. 24, 1951, ch. 554, Sec. 2(a), (b), (d), 65 Stat. 613; June 28, 1955, ch. 189, Sec. 4(b), (e)(1), 69 Stat. 176, 177, provided for payment of additional compensation to and an annual limit on compensation for legislative branch employees. Section 60e-7, acts June 28, 1955, ch. 189, Sec. 4(a), (e)(1), (g), (h), 69 Stat. 176-178; June 27, 1956, ch. 453, Sec. 101, 70 Stat. 363, provided for payment of additional compensation to legislative branch employees. Section 60e-8, Pub. L. 85-462, Sec. 4(a), (e), (f), (r), June 20, 1958, 72 Stat. 207-209, provided for payment of additional compensation to legislative branch employees. Section 60e-9, Pub. L. 86-568, title I, Sec. 117(a), (e)-(h), July 1, 1960, 74 Stat. 303, provided for payment of additional compensation to legislative branch employees. Section 60e-10, Pub. L. 87-793, Sec. 1005(a), (e)-(g), (i), Oct. 11, 1962, 76 Stat. 866, provided for payment of additional compensation to and an annual limit on compensation for legislative branch employees. Section 60e-11, Pub. L. 88-426, title II, Sec. 202(a)-(c), (h), Aug. 14, 1964, 78 Stat. 413, 414, provided for payment of additional compensation to legislative branch employees. Section 60e-12, Pub. L. 89-301, Sec. 11(a), (b), (i), Oct. 29, 1965, 79 Stat. 1120, 1121, provided for payment of additional compensation to legislative branch employees. Section 60e-13, Pub. L. 89-504, title III, Sec. 302(a), (b), (e), (i), July 18, 1966, 80 Stat. 294, provided for payment of additional compensation to legislative branch employees. Section 60e-14, Pub. L. 90-206, title II, Sec. 214(a), (b), (f), (m), Dec. 16, 1967, 81 Stat. 635-637, provided for payment of additional compensation to legislative branch employees. ------DocID 7080 Document 14 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 60j-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 60j-3. Repealed. Pub. L. 97-276, Sec. 101(e), Oct. 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 1189 -MISC1- Section, Pub. L. 95-391, title I, Sec. 109, Sept. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 773; Pub. L. 96-304, title I, Sec. 107(c), July 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 890, provided for merit compensation for employees rated as outstanding and exceptional by Secretary of Senate and Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, respectively. EFFECTIVE DATE OF REPEAL Section 101 of S. 2939, 97th Congress, 2d Session, as reported Sept. 22, 1982, and incorporated by reference in section 101(e) of Pub. L. 97-276, to be effective as if enacted into law, provided that the repeal is effective Oct. 1, 1982. REPORTS COVERING FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1982 Section 101 of S. 2939, 97th Congress, 2d Session, as reported Sept. 22, 1982, and incorporated by reference in section 101(e) of Pub. L. 97-276, to be effective as if enacted into law, provided in part that the reports required by subsec. (e) of this section with respect to the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1982, be filed notwithstanding the repeal. Subsec. (e) of this section had required that within thirty days following the end of each fiscal year, the Secretary of the Senate and the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper file reports with the Senate Committee on Appropriations detailing the use and implementation of the authority contained in this section and that such reports include the names of all employees receiving merit compensation under authority of this section at the end of the fiscal year, the positions occupied by them and the date when each such employee first began to receive merit compensation. ------DocID 7090 Document 15 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 61a-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 61a-3. Compensation of Assistant Secretary of Senate -STATUTE- The Assistant Secretary of the Senate may be paid at a maximum annual rate of compensation not to exceed $39,000. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 91-145, Dec. 12, 1969, 83 Stat. 340; Pub. L. 93-371, Sec. 4, Aug. 13, 1974, 88 Stat. 429; Pub. L. 94-59, title I, Sec. 105, July 25, 1975, 89 Stat. 275.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1975 - Pub. L. 94-59 substituted '$39,000' for '$37,620', effective July 1, 1975. 1974 - Pub. L. 93-371 substituted provision setting maximum annual rate of compensation of Assistant Secretary at not to exceed $37,620, for provisions authorizing Secretary of Senate to fix the compensation of Assistant Secretary at not to exceed $11,826 per annum, effective July 1, 1974. -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME Assistant Secretary of the Senate deemed successor in references to Chief Clerk of Senate in all laws, rules, resolutions, and orders, effective July 1, 1971, under provisions of Pub. L. 92-51, July 9, 1971, 85 Stat. 125. 1974 ADJUSTMENT IN COMPENSATION NOT TO SUPERSEDE ADJUSTMENTS IN COMPENSATION OR LIMITATIONS BY PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE Adjustment in compensation by Pub. L. 93-371 not to supersede order of President pro tempore of the Senate authorizing higher rate of compensation or any authority of the President pro tempore to adjust rates of compensation or limitations under section 4 of the Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970, see section 4 of Pub. L. 93-371, set out in part as a note under section 61a of this title. -MISC4- INCREASES IN COMPENSATION Increases in compensation of Assistant Secretary of the Senate under authority of Federal Salary Act of 1967 (Pub. L. 90-206) and Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970 (Pub. L. 91-656), see section 60a-1 of this title, and Salary Directives of President pro tempore of the Senate, set out as notes under that section. ------DocID 7101 Document 16 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 61b-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 61b-3. Professional archivist; Secretary's authority to obtain services from General Services Administration -STATUTE- For each fiscal year (beginning with the fiscal year which ends September 30, 1982), the Secretary of the Senate is authorized to expend from the contingent fund of the Senate such amount as may be necessary to enable the Secretary to obtain from the General Services Administration the services of a professional archivist. Such services shall be obtained on a reimbursable basis and shall not be obtained except with the consent of the General Services Administration and the Committee on Rules and Administration. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 97-92, title I, Sec. 125, Dec. 15, 1981, 95 Stat. 1198.) -MISC1- REIMBURSEMENT OF ARCHIVIST OF THE UNITED STATES FOR EXPENDITURES FOR PROJECT TO PROVIDE FOR PRESERVATION OF RECORDS OF CONTINUING VALUE OF SENATE; PAYMENT, ETC., OF AMOUNTS Pub. L. 97-257, title I, Sec. 107, Sept. 10, 1982, 96 Stat. 850, provided that: 'For the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982, and for each of the next three succeeding fiscal years, the Secretary of the Senate is authorized to pay to the General Services Administration such amounts as may be necessary to reimburse the Archivist of the United States for expenditures made to conduct a project to provide for the proper preservation of the Senate's records of continuing value, which expenditures cannot be defrayed from funds otherwise available for such purpose. The aggregate of the sums paid to the General Services Administration under this section shall not exceed $300,000. Amounts paid under this section shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate on vouchers approved by the Secretary of the Senate.' ------DocID 7111 Document 17 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 61e-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 61e-3. Deputy Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper to act on death, resignation, disability, or absence of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of Senate -STATUTE- In the event of the death, resignation, or disability of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, the Deputy Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper shall act as Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate in carrying out the duties and responsibilities of that office in all matters until such time as a new Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate shall have been elected and qualified or such disability shall have been ended. For purposes of this section, the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate shall be considered as disabled only during such period of time as the Majority and Minority Leaders and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate certify jointly to the Senate that the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate is unable to perform his duties. In the event that the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate is absent, the Deputy Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper shall act during such absence as the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate in carrying out the duties and responsibilities of the office in all matters. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 97-51, Sec. 128, Oct. 1, 1981, 95 Stat. 966.) ------DocID 7120 Document 18 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 61g-1 to 61g-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 61g-1 to 61g-3. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section 61g-1, Pub. L. 89-691, title IV, Sec. 404, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 1024, authorized, effective Oct. 1, 1966, Senate Majority Leader to fix the gross compensation of Secretary for Majority at not to exceed $25,611.05 per annum so long as position is held by present incumbent. See section 61g of this title. Sections 61g-2 and 61g-3, Pub. L. 94-59, title I, July 25, 1975, 89 Stat. 272, originally classified to section 61g-3 and later reclassified to section 61g-2, authorized, effective July 1, 1975, and each fiscal year thereafter, Secretaries for Senate Majority and Minority to each appoint and fix compensation of an assistant during emergencies at specified rates of compensation for not more than six months in each fiscal year. Pub. L. 95-94, title I, Aug. 5, 1977, 91 Stat. 658, abolished such positions, effective Oct. 1, 1977, and authorized Secretaries concerned to appoint such employees as they deem appropriate. See section 61g-5 of this title. ------DocID 7128 Document 19 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 61h-2, 61h-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 61h-2, 61h-3. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section 61h-2, Pub. L. 94-59, title I, Sec. 105, July 25, 1975, 89 Stat. 275, set a maximum annual rate of compensation of $36,500 for legislative assistants in Offices of Senate Majority and Minority Leaders. Positions established by Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1970, for Offices of Senate Majority and Minority Leaders, which Act, Pub. L. 91-145, Dec. 12, 1969, 83 Stat. 339, classified to former section 61h-1 of this title, authorized the respective leaders to appoint a legislative assistant, were abolished, see Pub. L. 95-26, title I, May 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 80, set out as a note under section 61h-1 of this title. See, also, section 61h-4 of this title. Section 61h-3, Pub. L. 94-59, title I, July 25, 1975, 89 Stat. 269, authorized Senate Majority and Minority Leaders to appoint and fix compensation of an executive secretary and a clerical assistant effective July 1, 1975. Positions established by Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1970, for Offices of Senate Majority and Minority Leaders, which Act, Pub. L. 91-145, Dec. 12, 1969, 83 Stat. 339, classified to former section 61h-1 of this title, authorized the respective leaders to appoint an executive secretary, and a clerical assistant, were abolished, see Pub. L. 95-26, title I, May 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 80, set out as a note under section 61h-1 of this title. See, also, section 61h-4 of this title. ------DocID 7144 Document 20 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 64-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 64-3. Reimbursement for Capitol Police salaries paid by Senate for service at Federal Law Enforcement Training Center -STATUTE- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Senate is authorized to receive moneys from the Department of the Treasury as reimbursements for salaries paid by the United States Senate in connection with certain officers and members of the United States Capitol Police serving as instructors at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. Moneys so received shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 95-26, title I, Sec. 111, May 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 87.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section is from the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1977. ------DocID 7162 Document 21 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 68-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 68-3. Separate accounts for 'Secretary of the Senate' and for 'Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate'; establishment within Senate contingent fund; inclusion of funds in existing accounts -STATUTE- (a) Effective October 1, 1983 - (1) there shall be, within the contingent fund of the Senate, a separate account for the 'Secretary of the Senate', and a separate account for the 'Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate'; (2) the account for 'Automobiles and Maintenance', within the contingent fund of the Senate, is abolished, and funds for the purchase, lease, exchange, maintenance, and operation of vehicles for the Senate shall be included in the separate account, established by paragraph (1), for the 'Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate'; and (3) the account for 'Postage Stamps', within the contingent fund of the Senate, is abolished; and funds for special delivery postage of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate shall be included in the separate account, established by paragraph (1), for the 'Secretary of the Senate'; funds for special delivery postage of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate shall be included in the separate account, established by paragraph (1), for the 'Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate'; and postage stamps for the Secretaries for the Majority and the Minority and other offices and officers of the Senate, as authorized by law, shall be included in the account for 'Miscellaneous Items', within the contingent fund of the Senate. (b) Any provision of law which was enacted, or any Senate resolution which was agreed to, prior to October 1, 1983, and which authorizes moneys in the contingent fund of the Senate to be expended by or for the use of the Secretary of the Senate, or his office (whether generally or from a specified account within such fund) may on and after October 1, 1983, be construed to authorize such moneys to be expended from the separate account, within such fund, established by subsection (a)(1) of this section for the 'Secretary of the Senate'; and any provision of law which was enacted prior to October 1, 1983, and which authorizes moneys in the contingent fund of the Senate to be expended by or for the use of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, or his office (whether generally or from a specified account within such fund) may on and after October 1, 1983, be construed to authorize such moneys to be expended from the separate account, within such fund, established by subsection (a)(1) of this section for the 'Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate'. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 98-51, title I, Sec. 103, July 14, 1983, 97 Stat. 266.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section is from the Congressional Operations Appropriation Act, 1984, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriation, 1984. ------DocID 7183 Document 22 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 72a-2, 72a-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 72a-2, 72a-3. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section 72a-2, acts July 20, 1951, ch. 237, Sec. 1-3, 65 Stat. 123; Aug. 5, 1955, ch. 568, Sec. 1, 8, 69 Stat. 501, 509; Feb. 14, 1956, ch. 34, Ch. IV, 70 Stat. 13; June 27, 1956, ch. 453, 70 Stat. 357; July 28, 1967, Pub. L. 90-57, Sec. 103, 81 Stat. 141; Aug. 18, 1970, Pub. L. 91-382, Sec. 103, 84 Stat. 825, prescribed basic compensation of employees of House and Senate press, periodical, and radio galleries, and was omitted for lack of general applicability. Section 72a-3, Pub. L. 91-382, Aug. 18, 1970, 84 Stat. 814, which related to computation of salaries and wages paid out of House appropriation items, was from the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1971, and was not repeated in subsequent appropriation acts. See section 331 et seq. of this title. Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts: Pub. L. 91-145, Dec. 12, 1969, 83 Stat. 347. Pub. L. 90-417, July 23, 1968, 82 Stat. 404. Pub. L. 90-57, July 28, 1967, 81 Stat. 133. Pub. L. 89-545, Aug. 27, 1966, 80 Stat. 361. Pub. L. 89-90, July 27, 1965, 79 Stat. 273. Pub. L. 88-454, Aug. 20, 1964, 78 Stat. 542. Pub. L. 88-248, Dec. 30, 1963, 77 Stat. 809. Pub. L. 87-730, Oct. 2, 1962, 76 Stat. 686. Pub. L. 87-130, Aug. 10, 1961, 75 Stat. 327. Pub. L. 86-628, July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 453. Pub. L. 86-176, Aug. 21, 1959, 73 Stat. 405. Pub. L. 85-570, July 31, 1958, 72 Stat. 446. Pub. L. 85-75, July 1, 1957, 71 Stat. 249. June 27, 1956, ch. 453, 70 Stat. 363. Aug. 5, 1955, ch. 568, 69 Stat. 513. July 2, 1954, ch. 455, title I, 68 Stat. 403. ------DocID 7194 Document 23 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 74a-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 74a-3. Additional employees in offices of House Minority Leader, Majority Whip, and chief Majority Whip; authorization; compensation -STATUTE- (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, effective March 1, 1977, there shall be two additional employees in the office of the minority leader, and one additional employee each in the offices of the majority whip and the chief majority whip. (b) The annual rate of compensation for any individual employed under subsection (a) of this section shall not exceed the annual rate of basic pay of level V of the Executive Schedule of section 5316 of title 5, and until otherwise provided by law such compensation as may be necessary shall be paid from the contingent fund of the House. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 95-94, title I, Sec. 115, Aug. 5, 1977, 91 Stat. 668.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section is based on section 1 of House Resolution No. 393, Ninety-fifth Congress, Mar. 31, 1977, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 95-94. -MISC3- INCREASES IN COMPENSATION Increases in compensation for House officers and employees under authority of Federal Salary Act of 1967 (Pub. L. 90-206), Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970 (Pub. L. 91-656), and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1988 (Pub. L. 100-202), see sections 60a-2 and 60a-2a of this title, and Salary Directives of Speaker of the House, set out as notes under those sections. ------DocID 7222 Document 24 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 84-3, 84-4 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 84-3, 84-4. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section 84-3, which related to compensation of Deputy Sergeant at Arms (charge of pairs), was based on House Resolution No. 138, Feb. 2, 1961, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 87-130, Sec. 103, Aug. 10, 1961, 75 Stat. 334. See section 291 et seq. of this title. Section 84-4, which related to compensation of a clerk-messenger in office of Parliamentarian, was based on House Resolution No. 603, Apr. 16, 1962, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 88-248, Sec. 103, Dec. 30, 1963, 77 Stat. 817, and was omitted because a lump-sum appropriation is now made for the Office of Parliamentarian. ------DocID 7234 Document 25 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 88b-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 88b-3. Membership of Page Board -STATUTE- (a) Appointed and designated members The Page Board shall consist of - (1) two Members of the House appointed by the Speaker and one Member of the House appointed by the minority leader; (2) the Clerk, Doorkeeper, and Sergeant at Arms of the House; and (3) the Architect of the Capitol. (b) 'Member of the House' defined As used in sections 88b-2 to 88b-4 of this title, the term 'Member of the House' means a Representative in, and a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 97-377, title I, Sec. 127, Dec. 21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1914.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section is based on section 2 of House Resolution No. 611, Ninety-seventh Congress, Nov. 30, 1982, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 97-377. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 88b-4 of this title. ------DocID 7241 Document 26 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 88c-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 88c-3. Service of page during academic year and summer term; filling of vacancies; eligibility -STATUTE- (a)(1) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a page serving during an academic year - (A) shall be in the eleventh grade; and (B) shall serve for one full term or two full terms. (2) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a page serving during the summer term - (A) shall have completed the tenth grade; and (B) shall not have begun the twelfth grade. (b)(1) An unforeseen vacancy occurring in a page position during an academic year may be filled, but no appointment to fill that vacancy shall be for a period of less than two months. (2) An individual who has served as a congressional page at any time during each of any three terms shall not be eligible to serve as a page. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 98-367, title I, Sec. 103, July 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 479.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section is based on section 3 of House Resolution No. 234, Ninety-eighth Congress, June 29, 1983, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 98-367. -MISC3- EFFECTIVE DATE Section effective June 29, 1983, except that subsecs. (a)(1)(A) and (b)(2) applicable to terms beginning after Nov. 30, 1983, see note set out under section 88c-1 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 88c-1, 88c-4 of this title. ------DocID 7253 Document 27 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 92b-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 4 -HEAD- Sec. 92b-3. Vouchers -STATUTE- Payments under sections 92b-1 to 92b-3 of this title shall be made on vouchers approved by the Committee on House Administration and signed by the chairman of such committee. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 97-51, Sec. 101(c), Oct. 1, 1981, 95 Stat. 959.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section is based on section 3 of House Resolution 804, Ninety-sixth Congress, Oct. 2, 1980, as enacted into permanent law by H.R. 4120, as reported July 9, 1981, which was enacted into permanent law by section 101(c) of Pub. L. 97-51. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 92b-1, 92b-2 of this title. ------DocID 7440 Document 28 of 532------ -CITE- 2 USC Sec. 190a-3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 2 CHAPTER 6 -HEAD- Sec. 190a-3. Repealed. S. Res. 9, Sec. 2, Nov. 5, 1975 -MISC1- Section, Pub. L. 93-344, title I, Sec. 102(d), July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 301, provided that meetings of the Senate Committee on the Budget or any subcommittee thereof be open to the public except in certain specified instances. ------DocID 3893 Document 29 of 532------ -CITE- TABLE OF POPULAR NAMES Lead-Zinc Small Producers Stabilization Act of Oct. 3, 1961 -COD- Pub. L. 87-347, Oct. 3, 1961, 75 Stat. 766 (Title 30, Sec. 681 et seq.) Pub. L. 88-75, July 25, 1963, 77 Stat. 92 Pub. L. 89-238, Sec. 1, Oct. 5, 1965, 79 Stat. 925 ------DocID 7764 Document 30 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC CHAPTER 1 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- CHAPTER 1 - PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND VACANCIES -MISC1- Sec. 1. Time of appointing electors. 2. Failure to make choice on prescribed day. 3. Number of electors. 4. Vacancies in electoral college. 5. Determination of controversy as to appointment of electors. 6. Credentials of electors; transmission to Archivist of the United States and to Congress; public inspection. 7. Meeting and vote of electors. 8. Manner of voting. 9. Certificates of votes for President and Vice President. 10. Sealing and endorsing certificates. 11. Disposition of certificates. 12. Failure of certificates of electors to reach President of Senate or Archivist of the United States; demand on State for certificate. (FOOTNOTE 1) (FOOTNOTE 1) So in original. Does not conform to section catchline. 13. Same; demand on district judge for certificate. 14. Forfeiture for messenger's neglect of duty. 15. Counting electoral votes in Congress. 16. Same; seats for officers and Members of two Houses in joint meeting. 17. Same; limit of debate in each House. 18. Same; parliamentary procedure at joint meeting. 19. Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President; officers eligible to act. 20. Resignation or refusal of office. 21. Definitions. AMENDMENTS 1984 - Pub. L. 98-497, title I, Sec. 107(e)(3), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2292, substituted 'Archivist of the United States' for 'Administrator of General Services' in items 6 and 12. 1961 - Pub. L. 87-389, Sec. 2(b), Oct. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 820, added item 21. 1951 - Act Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, Sec. 5, 65 Stat. 711, substituted 'Administrator of General Services' for 'Secretary of State' in items 6 and 12. FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS Disclosure of Federal campaign funds and general provisions, see section 431 et seq. of Title 2, The Congress. ------DocID 7765 Document 31 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 1 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 1. Time of appointing electors -STATUTE- The electors of President and Vice President shall be appointed, in each State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 672.) -CROSS- CROSS REFERENCES Time of choosing electors, see Const. Art. 2, Sec. 1, cl. 3. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 18 sections 871, 1751. ------DocID 7766 Document 32 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 2 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 2. Failure to make choice on prescribed day -STATUTE- Whenever any State has held an election for the purpose of choosing electors, and has failed to make a choice on the day prescribed by law, the electors may be appointed on a subsequent day in such a manner as the legislature of such State may direct. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 672.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 18 sections 871, 1751. ------DocID 6873 Document 33 of 532------ -CITE- 1 USC Sec. 3 -EXPCITE- TITLE 1 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 3. 'Vessel' as including all means of water transportation -STATUTE- The word 'vessel' includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water. -SOURCE- (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 10 section 101; title 32 section 101; title 37 section 101; title 46 section 2101; title 46 App. section 1241o. ------DocID 7768 Document 34 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 4 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 4. Vacancies in electoral college -STATUTE- Each State may, by law, provide for the filling of any vacancies which may occur in its college of electors when such college meets to give its electoral vote. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 673.) ------DocID 7769 Document 35 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 5 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 5. Determination of controversy as to appointment of electors -STATUTE- If any State shall have provided, by laws enacted prior to the day fixed for the appointment of the electors, for its final determination of any controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors of such State, by judicial or other methods or procedures, and such determination shall have been made at least six days before the time fixed for the meeting of the electors, such determination made pursuant to such law so existing on said day, and made at least six days prior to said time of meeting of the electors, shall be conclusive, and shall govern in the counting of the electoral votes as provided in the Constitution, and as hereinafter regulated, so far as the ascertainment of the electors appointed by such State is concerned. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 673.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 15 of this title. ------DocID 7770 Document 36 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 6 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 6. Credentials of electors; transmission to Archivist of the United States and to Congress; public inspection -STATUTE- It shall be the duty of the executive of each State, as soon as practicable after the conclusion of the appointment of the electors in such State by the final ascertainment, under and in pursuance of the laws of such State providing for such ascertainment, to communicate by registered mail under the seal of the State to the Archivist of the United States a certificate of such ascertainment of the electors appointed, setting forth the names of such electors and the canvass or other ascertainment under the laws of such State of the number of votes given or cast for each person for whose appointment any and all votes have been given or cast; and it shall also thereupon be the duty of the executive of each State to deliver to the electors of such State, on or before the day on which they are required by section 7 of this title to meet, six duplicate-originals of the same certificate under the seal of the State; and if there shall have been any final determination in a State in the manner provided for by law of a controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors of such State, it shall be the duty of the executive of such State, as soon as practicable after such determination, to communicate under the seal of the State to the Archivist of the United States a certificate of such determination in form and manner as the same shall have been made; and the certificate or certificates so received by the Archivist of the United States shall be preserved by him for one year and shall be a part of the public records of his office and shall be open to public inspection; and the Archivist of the United States at the first meeting of Congress thereafter shall transmit to the two Houses of Congress copies in full of each and every such certificate so received at the National Archives and Records Administration. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 673; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, Sec. 6, 65 Stat. 711; Oct. 19, 1984, Pub. L. 98-497, title I, Sec. 107(e)(1), (2)(A), 98 Stat. 2291.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1984 - Pub. L. 98-497 substituted 'Archivist of the United States' for 'Administrator of General Services' in section catchline and wherever appearing in text and 'National Archives and Records Administration' for 'General Services Administration'. 1951 - Act Oct. 31, 1951, substituted 'Administrator of General Services' for 'Secretary of State' in section catchline and several places in text, and for 'Secretary of State of the United States' in one place, and 'General Services Administration' for 'State Department'. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1984 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 98-497 effective Apr. 1, 1985, see section 301 of Pub. L. 98-497, set out as a note under section 2102 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 15 of this title. ------DocID 7771 Document 37 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 7 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 7. Meeting and vote of electors -STATUTE- The electors of President and Vice President of each State shall meet and give their votes on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December next following their appointment at such place in each State as the legislature of such State shall direct. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 673.) -CROSS- CROSS REFERENCES Day of voting by electors, see Const. Art. II, Sec. 1, cl. 3. Voting by electors, see Const. Amend. XII. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 6 of this title. ------DocID 7772 Document 38 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 8 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 8. Manner of voting -STATUTE- The electors shall vote for President and Vice President, respectively, in the manner directed by the Constitution. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674.) ------DocID 7773 Document 39 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 9 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 9. Certificates of votes for President and Vice President -STATUTE- The electors shall make and sign six certificates of all the votes given by them, each of which certificates shall contain two distinct lists, one of the votes for President and the other of the votes for Vice President, and shall annex to each of the certificates one of the lists of the electors which shall have been furnished to them by direction of the executive of the State. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 12 of this title. ------DocID 7774 Document 40 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 10 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 10. Sealing and endorsing certificates -STATUTE- The electors shall seal up the certificates so made by them, and certify upon each that the lists of all the votes of such State given for President, and of all the votes given for Vice President, are contained therein. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674.) ------DocID 7775 Document 41 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 11 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 11. Disposition of certificates -STATUTE- The electors shall dispose of the certificates so made by them and the lists attached thereto in the following manner: First. They shall forthwith forward by registered mail one of the same to the President of the Senate at the seat of government. Second. Two of the same shall be delivered to the secretary of state of the State, one of which shall be held subject to the order of the President of the Senate, the other to be preserved by him for one year and shall be a part of the public records of his office and shall be open to public inspection. Third. On the day thereafter they shall forward by registered mail two of such certificates and lists to the Archivist of the United States at the seat of government, one of which shall be held subject to the order of the President of the Senate. The other shall be preserved by the Archivist of the United States for one year and shall be a part of the public records of his office and shall be open to public inspection. Fourth. They shall forthwith cause the other of the certificates and lists to be delivered to the judge of the district in which the electors shall have assembled. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, Sec. 7, 65 Stat. 712; Oct. 19, 1984, Pub. L. 98-497, title I, Sec. 107(e)(1), 98 Stat. 2291.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1984 - Pub. L. 98-497 substituted 'Archivist of the United States' for 'Administrator of General Services' two places in par. 'Third'. 1951 - Act Oct. 31, 1951, substituted 'Administrator of General Services' for 'Secretary of State' two places in par. 'Third'. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1984 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 98-497 effective Apr. 1, 1985, see section 301 of Pub. L. 98-497, set out as a note under section 2102 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 12 of this title. ------DocID 7776 Document 42 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 12 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 12. Failure of certificates of electors to reach President of the Senate or Archivist of the United States; demand on State for certificate -STATUTE- When no certificate of vote and list mentioned in sections 9 and 11 of this title from any State shall have been received by the President of the Senate or by the Archivist of the United States by the fourth Wednesday in December, after the meeting of the electors shall have been held, the President of the Senate or, if he be absent from the seat of government, the Archivist of the United States shall request, by the most expeditious method available, the secretary of state of the State to send up the certificate and list lodged with him by the electors of such State; and it shall be his duty upon receipt of such request immediately to transmit same by registered mail to the President of the Senate at the seat of government. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, Sec. 8, 65 Stat. 712; Oct. 19, 1984, Pub. L. 98-497, title I, Sec. 107(e)(1), (2)(B), 98 Stat. 2291.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1984 - Pub. L. 98-497 substituted 'Archivist of the United States' for 'Administrator of General Services' in section catchline and two places in text. 1951 - Act Oct. 31, 1951, substituted 'Administrator of General Services' for 'Secretary of State' in section catchline and two places in text. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1984 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 98-497 effective Apr. 1, 1985, see section 301 of Pub. L. 98-497, set out as a note under section 2102 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents. ------DocID 7777 Document 43 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 13 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 13. Same; demand on district judge for certificate -STATUTE- When no certificates of votes from any State shall have been received at the seat of government on the fourth Wednesday in December, after the meeting of the electors shall have been held, the President of the Senate or, if he be absent from the seat of government, the Archivist of the United States shall send a special messenger to the district judge in whose custody one certificate of votes from that State has been lodged, and such judge shall forthwith transmit that list by the hand of such messenger to the seat of government. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 674; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, Sec. 9, 65 Stat. 712; Oct. 19, 1984, Pub. L. 98-497, title I, Sec. 107(e)(1), 98 Stat. 2291.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1984 - Pub. L. 98-497 substituted 'Archivist of the United States' for 'Administrator of General Services'. 1951 - Act Oct. 31, 1951, substituted 'Administrator of General Services' for 'Secretary of State'. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1984 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 98-497 effective Apr. 1, 1985, see section 301 of Pub. L. 98-497, set out as a note under section 2102 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 14 of this title. ------DocID 7778 Document 44 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 14 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 14. Forfeiture for messenger's neglect of duty -STATUTE- Every person who, having been appointed, pursuant to section 13 of this title, to deliver the certificates of the votes of the electors to the President of the Senate, and having accepted such appointment, shall neglect to perform the services required from him, shall forfeit the sum of $1,000. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 675.) ------DocID 7779 Document 45 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 15 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 15. Counting electoral votes in Congress -STATUTE- Congress shall be in session on the sixth day of January succeeding every meeting of the electors. The Senate and House of Representatives shall meet in the Hall of the House of Representatives at the hour of 1 o'clock in the afternoon on that day, and the President of the Senate shall be their presiding officer. Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented, and acted upon in the alphabetical order of the States, beginning with the letter A; and said tellers, having then read the same in the presence and hearing of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes as they shall appear from the said certificates; and the votes having been ascertained and counted according to the rules in this subchapter provided, the result of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, which announcement shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons, if any, elected President and Vice President of the United States, and, together with a list of the votes, be entered on the Journals of the two Houses. Upon such reading of any such certificate or paper, the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any. Every objection shall be made in writing, and shall state clearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at least one Senator and one Member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received. When all objections so made to any vote or paper from a State shall have been received and read, the Senate shall thereupon withdraw, and such objections shall be submitted to the Senate for its decision; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, in like manner, submit such objections to the House of Representatives for its decision; and no electoral vote or votes from any State which shall have been regularly given by electors whose appointment has been lawfully certified to according to section 6 of this title from which but one return has been received shall be rejected, but the two Houses concurrently may reject the vote or votes when they agree that such vote or votes have not been so regularly given by electors whose appointment has been so certified. If more than one return or paper purporting to be a return from a State shall have been received by the President of the Senate, those votes, and those only, shall be counted which shall have been regularly given by the electors who are shown by the determination mentioned in section 5 of this title to have been appointed, if the determination in said section provided for shall have been made, or by such successors or substitutes, in case of a vacancy in the board of electors so ascertained, as have been appointed to fill such vacancy in the mode provided by the laws of the State; but in case there shall arise the question which of two or more of such State authorities determining what electors have been appointed, as mentioned in section 5 of this title, is the lawful tribunal of such State, the votes regularly given of those electors, and those only, of such State shall be counted whose title as electors the two Houses, acting separately, shall concurrently decide is supported by the decision of such State so authorized by its law; and in such case of more than one return or paper purporting to be a return from a State, if there shall have been no such determination of the question in the State aforesaid, then those votes, and those only, shall be counted which the two Houses shall concurrently decide were cast by lawful electors appointed in accordance with the laws of the State, unless the two Houses, acting separately, shall concurrently decide such votes not to be the lawful votes of the legally appointed electors of such State. But if the two Houses shall disagree in respect of the counting of such votes, then, and in that case, the votes of the electors whose appointment shall have been certified by the executive of the State, under the seal thereof, shall be counted. When the two Houses have voted, they shall immediately again meet, and the presiding officer shall then announce the decision of the questions submitted. No votes or papers from any other State shall be acted upon until the objections previously made to the votes or papers from any State shall have been finally disposed of. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 675.) -MISC1- COUNTING OF ELECTORAL VOTES 1989 - Pub. L. 100-646, Nov. 9, 1988, 102 Stat. 3341, provided: 'That in carrying out the procedure set forth in section 15 of title, 3, United States Code, for 1989, 'the fourth day of January' shall be substituted for 'the sixth day of January' in the first sentence of such section.' 1985 - Pub. L. 98-456, Oct. 9, 1984, 98 Stat. 1748, provided: 'That, in carrying out the procedure set forth in section 15 of title 3, United States Code, for 1985, 'the seventh day of January' shall be substituted for 'the sixth day of January' in the first sentence of such section.' ------DocID 7780 Document 46 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 16 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 16. Same; seats for officers and Members of two Houses in joint meeting -STATUTE- At such joint meeting of the two Houses seats shall be provided as follows: For the President of the Senate, the Speaker's chair; for the Speaker, immediately upon his left; the Senators, in the body of the Hall upon the right of the presiding officer; for the Representatives, in the body of the Hall not provided for the Senators; for the tellers, Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives, at the Clerk's desk; for the other officers of the two Houses, in front of the Clerk's desk and upon each side of the Speaker's platform. Such joint meeting shall not be dissolved until the count of electoral votes shall be completed and the result declared; and no recess shall be taken unless a question shall have arisen in regard to counting any such votes, or otherwise under this subchapter, in which case it shall be competent for either House, acting separately, in the manner hereinbefore provided, to direct a recess of such House not beyond the next calendar day, Sunday excepted, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon. But if the counting of the electoral votes and the declaration of the result shall not have been completed before the fifth calendar day next after such first meeting of the two Houses, no further or other recess shall be taken by either House. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 676.) ------DocID 7781 Document 47 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 17 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 17. Same; limit of debate in each House -STATUTE- When the two Houses separate to decide upon an objection that may have been made to the counting of any electoral vote or votes from any State, or other question arising in the matter, each Senator and Representative may speak to such objection or question five minutes, and not more than once; but after such debate shall have lasted two hours it shall be the duty of the presiding officer of each House to put the main question without further debate. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 676.) ------DocID 7782 Document 48 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 18 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 18. Same; parliamentary procedure at joint meeting -STATUTE- While the two Houses shall be in meeting as provided in this chapter, the President of the Senate shall have power to preserve order; and no debate shall be allowed and no question shall be put by the presiding officer except to either House on a motion to withdraw. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 676; Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1263, Sec. 3, 68 Stat. 1227.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1954 - Act Sept. 3, 1954, substituted 'chapter' for 'subchapter'. ------DocID 7783 Document 49 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 19 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 19. Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President; officers eligible to act -STATUTE- (a)(1) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is neither a President nor Vice President to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, upon his resignation as Speaker and as Representative in Congress, act as President. (2) The same rule shall apply in the case of the death, resignation, removal from office, or inability of an individual acting as President under this subsection. (b) If, at the time when under subsection (a) of this section a Speaker is to begin the discharge of the powers and duties of the office of President, there is no Speaker, or the Speaker fails to qualify as Acting President, then the President pro tempore of the Senate shall, upon his resignation as President pro tempore and as Senator, act as President. (c) An individual acting as President under subsection (a) or subsection (b) of this section shall continue to act until the expiration of the then current Presidential term, except that - (1) if his discharge of the powers and duties of the office is founded in whole or in part on the failure of both the President-elect and the Vice-President-elect to qualify, then he shall act only until a President or Vice President qualifies; and (2) if his discharge of the powers and duties of the office is founded in whole or in part on the inability of the President or Vice President, then he shall act only until the removal of the disability of one of such individuals. (d)(1) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is no President pro tempore to act as President under subsection (b) of this section, then the officer of the United States who is highest on the following list, and who is not under disability to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President shall act as President: Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Veterans Affairs. (2) An individual acting as President under this subsection shall continue so to do until the expiration of the then current Presidential term, but not after a qualified and prior-entitled individual is able to act, except that the removal of the disability of an individual higher on the list contained in paragraph (1) of this subsection or the ability to qualify on the part of an individual higher on such list shall not terminate his service. (3) The taking of the oath of office by an individual specified in the list in paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be held to constitute his resignation from the office by virtue of the holding of which he qualifies to act as President. (e) Subsections (a), (b), and (d) of this section shall apply only to such officers as are eligible to the office of President under the Constitution. Subsection (d) of this section shall apply only to officers appointed, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, prior to the time of the death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, of the President pro tempore, and only to officers not under impeachment by the House of Representatives at the time the powers and duties of the office of President devolve upon them. (f) During the period that any individual acts as President under this section, his compensation shall be at the rate then provided by law in the case of the President. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 677; Sept. 9, 1965, Pub. L. 89-174, Sec. 6(a), 79 Stat. 669; Oct. 15, 1966, Pub. L. 89-670, Sec. 10(a), 80 Stat. 948; Aug. 12, 1970, Pub. L. 91-375, Sec. 6(b), 84 Stat. 775; Aug. 4, 1977, Pub. L. 95-91, title VII, Sec. 709(g), 91 Stat. 609; Oct. 17, 1979, Pub. L. 96-88, title V, Sec. 508(a), 93 Stat. 692; Oct. 25, 1988, Pub. L. 100-527, Sec. 13(a), 102 Stat. 2643.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1988 - Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 100-527 inserted reference to Secretary of Veterans Affairs. 1979 - Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 96-88 substituted 'Secretary of Health and Human Services' for 'Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare' and inserted reference to Secretary of Education. 1977 - Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 95-91 inserted reference to Secretary of Energy. 1970 - Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 91-375 struck out 'Postmaster General,' after 'Attorney General,'. 1966 - Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 89-670 inserted reference to Secretary of Transportation. 1965 - Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 89-174 inserted reference to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1988 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 100-527 effective Mar. 15, 1989, see section 18(a) of Pub. L. 100-527, set out as a Department of Veterans Affairs Act note under section 201 of Title 38, Veterans' Benefits. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1979 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 96-88 effective May 4, 1980, with specified exceptions, see section 601 of Pub. L. 96-88, set out as an Effective Date note under section 3401 of Title 20, Education. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1970 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 91-375 effective within 1 year after Aug. 12, 1970, on date established therefor by Board of Governors of United States Postal Service and published by it in Federal Register, see section 16(a), formerly section 15(a) of Pub. L. 91-375, set out as an Effective Date note preceding section 101 of Title 39, Postal Service. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1966 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 89-670 effective Apr. 1, 1967, as prescribed by President and published in Federal Register, see section 16(a), formerly Sec. 15(a), of Pub. L. 89-670, and Ex. Ord. No. 11340, Mar. 30, 1967, 32 F.R. 5453, set out as notes under section 1651 of Title 49, Appendix, Transportation. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1965 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 89-174 effective upon expiration of first period of sixty calendar days following Sept. 9, 1965 or on earlier date specified by Executive order, see section 11(a) of Pub. L. 89-174 set out as an Effective Date note under section 3531 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 18 section 871. ------DocID 7784 Document 50 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 20 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 20. Resignation or refusal of office -STATUTE- The only evidence of a refusal to accept, or of a resignation of the office of President or Vice President, shall be an instrument in writing, declaring the same, and subscribed by the person refusing to accept or resigning, as the case may be, and delivered into the office of the Secretary of State. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 678.) -MISC1- PRESIDENTIAL RECORDINGS AND MATERIALS PRESERVATION ACT For protection and preservation of tape recordings of conversations involving former President Richard M. Nixon, see sections 101 to 106 of Pub. L. 93-526, set out as a note under section 2107 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 18 section 871. ------DocID 7785 Document 51 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC Sec. 21 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 1 -HEAD- Sec. 21. Definitions -STATUTE- As used in this chapter the term - (a) 'State' includes the District of Columbia. (b) 'executives of each State' includes the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia. -SOURCE- (Added Pub. L. 87-389, Sec. 2(a), Oct. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 820.) -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Except as otherwise provided in Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967, eff. Aug. 11, 1967 (in part), 32 F.R. 11669, 81 Stat. 948, functions of Board of Commissioners of District of Columbia transferred to Commissioner of District of Columbia by section 401 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967. Office of Commissioner of District of Columbia, as established by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967, abolished as of noon Jan. 2, 1975, by Pub. L. 93-198, title VII, Sec. 711, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 818, and replaced by office of Mayor of District of Columbia by section 421 of Pub. L. 93-198, classified to section 1-241 of the District of Columbia Code. ------DocID 7786 Document 52 of 532------ -CITE- 3 USC CHAPTER 2 -EXPCITE- TITLE 3 CHAPTER 2 -HEAD- CHAPTER 2 - OFFICE AND COMPENSATION OF PRESIDENT -MISC1- Sec. 101. Commencement of term of office. 102. Compensation of the President. 103. Traveling expenses. 104. Salary of the Vice President. 105. Assistance and services for the President. 106. Assistance and services for the Vice President. 107. Domestic Policy Staff and Office of Administration; personnel. 108. Assistance to the President for unanticipated needs. 109. Public property in and belonging to the Executive Residence at the White House. 110. Furniture for the Executive Residence at the White House. 111. Expense allowance of Vice President. 112. Detail of employees of executive departments. 113. Personnel report. 114. General pay limitation. AMENDMENTS 1978 - Pub. L. 95-570, Sec. 1(b), 2(b), 3(b), 5(b)(2), (c)(2), Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2447, 2449, 2450, 2451, substituted in item 105 'Assistance and services for the President' for 'Compensation of secretaries and executive, administrative, and staff assistants to President'; in item 106 'Assistance and services for the Vice President' for 'Administrative assistants'; in item 107 'Domestic Policy Staff and Office of Administration; personnel' for 'Detail of employees of executive departments to office of President'; in item 108 'Assistance to the President for unanticipated needs' for 'Accommodations for vehicles'; and in item 109 'the Executive Residence at the White House' for 'Executive Mansion'; inserted in item 110 'the Executive Residence at the' before 'White House'; and added items 112, 113 and 114. REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 1 OF 1977 42 F.R. 56101, 91 STAT. 1633, AS AMENDED BY PUB. L. 97-195, SEC. 1(C)(5), JUNE 16, 1982, 96 STAT. 115 Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, July 15, 1977, (FOOTNOTE 1) pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 9 of Title 5 of the United States Code. (FOOTNOTE 1) As amended Sept. 15, 1977. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT SECTION 1. REDESIGNATION OF DOMESTIC COUNCIL STAFF The Domestic Council staff is hereby designated the Domestic Policy Staff and shall consist of such staff personnel as are determined by the President to be necessary to assure that the needs of the President for prompt and comprehensive advice are met with respect to matters of economic and domestic policy. The staff shall continue to be headed by an Executive Director who shall be an Assistant to the President, designated by the President, as provided in Section 203 of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1970 (set out in Title 5, Appendix). The Executive Director shall perform such functions as the President may from time to time direct. SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF AN OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION There is hereby established in the Executive Office of the President the Office of Administration which shall be headed by the President. There shall be a Director of the Office of Administration. The Director shall be appointed by the President and shall serve as chief administrative officer of the Office of Administration. The President is authorized to fix the compensation and duties of the Director. The Office of Administration shall provide components of the Executive Office of the President with such administrative services as the President shall from time to time direct. SEC. 3. ABOLITION OF COMPONENTS The following components of the Executive Office of the President are hereby abolished: A. The Domestic Council; B. The Office of Drug Abuse Policy; C. The Office of Telecommunications Policy; and D. The Economic Opportunity Council. SEC. 4. APPOINTMENT OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION There shall be in the Department of Commerce an Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. (As amended Pub. L. 97-195, Sec. 1(c)(5), June 16, 1982, 96 Stat. 115.) SEC. 5. TRANSFERS OF FUNCTIONS The following functions shall be transferred: A. All functions vested in the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and in the Office of Science and Technology Policy pursuant to sections 205(a)(2), 206 and 209 of the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-282; 90 Stat. 459) (42 U.S.C. 6614(a)(2), 6615 and 6618), are hereby transferred to the Director of the National Science Foundation. The Intergovernmental Science, Engineering, and Technology Advisory Panel, the President's Committee on Science and Technology, and the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, established in accordance with the provisions of Titles II, III, IV of the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6611 et seq., 6631 et seq., and 6651 et seq.), are hereby abolished, and their functions transferred to the President. B. Those functions of the Office of Telecommunications Policy and of its Director relating to: (1) the preparation of Presidential telecommunications policy options including, but not limited to those related to the procurement and management of Federal telecommunications systems, national security, and emergency matters; and (2) disposition of appeals from assignments of radio frequencies to stations of the United States Government; are hereby transferred to the President who may delegate such functions within the Executive Office of the President as the President may from time to time deem desirable. All other functions of the Office of Telecommunications Policy and of its Director are hereby transferred to the Secretary of Commerce who shall provide for the performance of such functions. C. The functions of the Office of Drug Abuse Policy and its Director are hereby transferred to the President, who may delegate such functions within the Executive Office of the President as the President may from time to time deem desirable. D. The functions of the Domestic Council are hereby transferred to the President, who may delegate such functions within the Executive Office of the President as the President may from time to time deem desirable. E. Those functions of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Office of Environmental Quality relating to the evaluation provided for by Section 11 of the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-577, 88 Stat. 1878) (42 U.S.C. 5910), are hereby transferred to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. F. Those functions of the Office of Management and Budget and its Director relating to the Committee Management Secretariat (Public Law 92-463, 86 Stat. 770, as amended by Public Law 94-409, 90 Stat. 1247) (see section 7 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92-463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 774, as amended, set out in Title 5, Appendix) are hereby transferred to the Administrator of General Services. G. The functions of the Economic Opportunity Council are hereby transferred to the President, who may delegate such functions within the Executive Office of the President as the President may from time to time deem desirable. SEC. 6. INCIDENTAL TRANSFERS So much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations and other funds employed, used, held, available, or to be made available in connection with the functions transferred under this Plan, as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall determine, shall be transferred to the appropriate department, agency, or component at such time or times as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall provide, except that no such unexpended balances transferred shall be used for purposes other than those for which the appropriation was originally made. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall provide for terminating the affairs of all agencies abolished herein and for such further measures and dispositions as such Director deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Reorganization Plan. SEC. 7. EFFECTIVE DATE This Reorganization Plan shall become effective at such time or times on or before April 1, 1978, as the President shall specify, but not sooner than the earliest time allowable under Section 906 of Title 5 of the United States Code. MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT To the Congress of the United States: I herewith transmit my plan for the Reorganization of the Executive Office of the President (EOP), Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1977. This plan is the first of a series I intend to submit under the reorganization authority vested in me by the Reorganization Act of 1977 (Public Law 95-17) (5 U.S.C. 901-912). It adheres to the purposes set forth in Section 901(a) of the Act (5 U.S.C. 901(a)). This plan in conjunction with the other steps I am taking will: Eliminate seven of the seventeen units now within the EOP and modify the rest. There were 19 units when I took office; the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the Economic Policy Board have already been abolished. Thus with this plan I will have eliminated nine of 19 EOP units. Reduce EOP staffing by about 250 which includes the White House staff reduction of 134 or 28 percent which I have already ordered. Improve efficiency by centralizing administrative functions; and Improve the process by which information is provided for Presidential decisionmaking. These recommendations arise from a careful, systematic study of the EOP. They are based on the premise that the EOP exists to serve the President and should be structured to meet his needs. They will reduce waste and cost while improving the service the President, and the nation, receive from the EOP. The EOP now consists of the immediate White House Office, the Vice President's Office, the Office of Management and Budget, and fourteen other agencies. The EOP has a budget authority of about $80,000,000 and 1,712 full time employees. The White House Office concentrates on close personal support including policy and political advice and administrative and operational services. The Office of the Vice President provides similar support to him. OMB's primary mission is to develop and implement the budget; it also carries out a number of management and reorganization activities. Three EOP units have responsibility for policy development: National Security Council. Domestic Council. Council on International Economic Policy. The other 11 are more specialized offices that offer analysis and advice, help develop policy in certain areas, or carry out special projects. These are: Council of Economic Advisers. Council on Wage and Price Stability. Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. Council on Environmental Quality. Office of Science and Technology Policy. Office of Drug Abuse Policy. Office of Telecommunications Policy. Intelligence Oversight Board. Federal Property Council. Energy Resources Council. Economic Opportunity Council. To make the EOP more effective, four steps are necessary: I. Strengthen management of policy issues. II. Limit the EOP, wherever possible, to functions directly related to the President's work. III. Centralize administrative services. IV. Reduce size of White House and EOP staffs. I. STRENGTHEN PROCESS MANAGEMENT OF POLICY ISSUES Perhaps the most important function of the President's staff is to make sure he has the wide variety of views and facts he needs to make decisions. By building a more orderly system for collecting information and advice, the President can make sure that he will hear all the views he should - and hear them in time. To better insure that this happens, I am taking the following actions to: Institute for domestic and economic issues, a system similar to the Presidential Review Memorandum process currently used for National Security issues. Create a committee of Presidential advisers, chaired by the Vice President, to set priorities among issues