§2102 Duties of Commission

Summary

Makes the Commission in charge of managing, protecting, placing, and showing all art, historical items, and exhibits that belong to the United States and are in the Senate wing of the Capitol or any Senate office building (including rooms, halls, and corridors). The Commission can also accept gifts or donations offered to the Senate for display in those places. The Commission must write rules for caring for, protecting, placing, and accepting these items and must publish those rules in the Congressional Record. Any security rules from the Sergeant at Arms, or actions by the Senate Rules Committee or the Architect of the Capitol, must follow the Commission’s rules. The Senate Rules Committee, working with the Architect and under the Commission’s rules, is responsible for supervising, protecting, and placing items that the Commission accepted or listed as U.S. property and that the Commission puts in the Senate spaces.