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§4523 Deductions for Delinquent Indebtedness
Title 2 › Chapter 45— CONGRESSIONAL PAY AND BENEFITS › Subchapter I— GENERAL › Part B— Administration › § 4523
Summary
Requires that if a Representative, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator owes money to their chamber, the committee or officer in charge of the matter must certify the unpaid amount to the Chief Administrative Officer for the House or to the Secretary of the Senate. Those officials must then deduct the certified amount, up to the unpaid balance, from any salary, mileage, or expense payments due to that member, and handle the money under existing law.
Full Legal Text
Title 2, §4523
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Whenever a Representative, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or a United States Senator, shall fail to pay any sum or sums due from such person to the House of Representatives or Senate, respectively, the appropriate committee or officer of the House of Representatives or Senate, as the case may be, having jurisdiction of the activity under which such debt arose, shall certify such delinquent sum or sums to the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives in the case of an indebtedness to the House of Representatives and to the Secretary of the Senate in the case of an indebtedness to the Senate, and such latter officials are authorized and directed, respectively, to deduct from any salary, mileage, or expense money due to any such delinquent such certified amounts or so much thereof as the balance or balances due such delinquent may cover. Sums so deducted by the Secretary of the Senate shall be disposed of by him in accordance with existing law, and sums so deducted by the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall be disposed of by him in accordance with existing law.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 40a of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Amendments
1996—Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives in” for “Sergeant at Arms of the House in” and “Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall be” for “Sergeant at Arms of the House shall be paid to the Clerk of the House and”.
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2 U.S.C. § 4523
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Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
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