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§4338 Designation by Senator Who Is Chairman or Vice Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Ethics of Employee in Office of That Senator to Perform Part-time Service for Committee; Amount Reimbursable; Procedure Applicable

Title 2 › CHAPTER 43 — CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES › SUBCHAPTER III — SENATE › § 4338

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

A Senator who is the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics may pick one employee from his Senate office to do part-time work for the Committee. The Committee must pay the Senator back for that employee’s Committee work by transferring money from the Senate’s contingent fund, using vouchers the Committee Chairman approves, into the Senator’s Administrative, Clerical, and Legislative Assistance Allowance. For each pay period, the amount paid back equals the same share of the employee’s salary (but not more than one-half of the salary) as the share of time the employee spends on Committee work, as the Committee Chairman decides. Money moved into that allowance can be used the same way as the rest of the allowance. For federal, state, territorial, or local law, the person is treated as an employee of the Senator’s office, not an employee of the Committee.

Full Legal Text

Title 2, §4338

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Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, a Senator who is the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics may designate one employee employed in his Senate office to perform part-time service for such Committee, and such Committee shall reimburse such Senator for such employee’s services for the Committee by transferring from the contingent fund of the Senate, upon vouchers approved by the Chairman of such Committee, to such Senator’s Administrative, Clerical, and Legislative Assistance Allowance, with respect to each pay period of such employee, an amount which bears the same ratio to such employee’s salary (but not more than one-half of such salary) for such period, as the portion of the time spent (or to be spent) by such employee in performing services for such Committee during such period bears to the total time for which such employee worked (or will work) during such period (as determined by the Chairman of such Committee) for such Committee and in such Senator’s office. Any funds transferred under authority of the preceding sentence to a Senator’s Administrative, Clerical, and Legislative Assistance shall be available for the same purposes and in like manner as funds therein which were not transferred thereto under such authority. For purposes of any law of the United States, a State, a territory, or a political subdivision thereof, an employee designated by a Senator pursuant to this section shall be considered to be an employee of such Senator’s Senate office and not an employee of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 72a–1f of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section is from the Congressional Operations Appropriation Act, 1985, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1985.

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Citation

2 U.S.C. § 4338

Title 2, The Congress

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110