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§6133 Chiefs of Staff for Senate Majority and Minority Leaders; appointment; compensation
Title 2 › Chapter CHAPTER 61— - SENATE LEADERSHIP › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - MAJORITY AND MINORITY LEADERS AND WHIPS › § 6133
Summary
Creates Chief of Staff jobs for the Senate Majority Leader and the Senate Minority Leader. Each Leader picks their Chief of Staff and sets that person’s pay. For the fiscal year ending September 30, 1987, the pay for those jobs had to come from the Senate’s appropriation for that year under the budget line for salaries and employees.
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Title 2, §6133
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(a)There is established within the Offices of the Majority and Minority Leaders the positions of Chief of Staff for the Majority Leader and Chief of Staff for the Minority Leader, respectively. Individuals appointed to such positions by the Majority Leader and Minority Leader, respectively, shall receive compensation at a rate fixed by the appropriate Leader.
(b)Gross compensation for employees filling positions established by subsection (a) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1987, shall be paid out of any funds available in the Senate appropriation for such year under the item “Salaries, Officers and Employees”.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 61h–7 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section is based on Senate Resolution No. 89, One Hundredth Congress, Jan. 28, 1987, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 101–163.
Amendments
2019—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–94 substituted “by the appropriate Leader.” for “by the appropriate Leader not to exceed the maximum annual rate of gross compensation of the Assistant Secretary of the Senate.”
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2019 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 116–94 effective on the later of the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2020, or the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after Dec. 20, 2019, see section 212(c) of Pub. L. 116–94, set out as a note under section 282b of this title.
Effective Date
Pub. L. 101–163, title I, § 9, Nov. 21, 1989, 103 Stat. 1046, provided that this section is effective on Jan. 28, 1987, the date on which Senate Resolution No. 89, One Hundredth Congress, was agreed to.
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2 U.S.C. § 6133
Title 2 — The Congress
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Apr 6, 2026
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