2 U.S.C. § 504: Mass mailings by Senate…

Summary

Two weeks after the end of each calendar quarter, or as soon as practical after that, the Senate’s Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper must send every Senate office a bill showing postage, paper, and other costs for mass mailings that quarter. The bill must separate postage and paper from other costs, show what’s for newsletters versus other mailings, and give the total cost per person in the State. All bills are compiled and sent to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. A short summary of that compilation is published every quarter in the Congressional Record and put in the Secretary of the Senate’s semiannual report. For each Senate office it must list the office name, the number of mass-mail pieces sent that quarter, the total cost, and for Senators the cost per State resident, pieces per State resident, and the amount allocated from the official mail funds.

Title 2, §504

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Two weeks after the close of each calendar quarter, or as soon as practicable thereafter, the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate shall send to each Senate office a statement of the cost of postage and paper and of the other operating expenses incurred as a result of mass mailings processed for such Senate office during such quarter. The statement shall separately identify the cost of postage and paper and other costs, and shall distinguish the costs attributable to newsletters and all other mass mailings. The statement shall also include the total cost per capita in the State. A compilation of all such statements shall be sent to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. A summary tabulation of such information shall be published quarterly in the Congressional Record and included in the semiannual report of the Secretary of the Senate. Such summary tabulation shall set forth for each Senate office the following information: the Senate office’s name, the total number of pieces of mass mail mailed during the quarter, the total cost of such mail, and, in the case of Senators, the cost of such mail divided by the total population of the State from which the Senator was elected, and the total number of pieces of mass mail divided by the total population of the State from which the Senator was elected, and in the case of each Senator, the allocation made to such Senator from the appropriation for official mail expenses.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 59f of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section is from the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1991.

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–283 inserted before period at end “, and in the case of each Senator, the allocation made to such Senator from the appropriation for official mail expenses”.

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Effective Date

of 1994 Amendment Pub. L. 103–283, title I, § 3(c), July 22, 1994, 108 Stat. 1427, provided that: “The

Amendments

made by this section [amending this section and section 4108 of this title] shall be effective with respect to— “(1) reports and statements covering periods beginning on and after October 1, 1994; and “(2) appropriations made and obligations incurred on and after such date.”

§504 Mass Mailings by Senate Offices; Quarterly Statements; Publication of Summary Tabulations

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Title 2, §504

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