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§6157 Services of Consultants to Majority and Minority Conference Committee of Senate

Title 2 › Chapter 61— SENATE LEADERSHIP › Subchapter IV— MAJORITY AND MINORITY SECRETARIES, CONFERENCES, AND POLICY COMMITTEES › § 6157

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Senate Majority or Minority Conference Committees may, with approval from the Committee on Rules and Administration, use certain authorized funds to hire individual experts or organizations for temporary (up to one year) or occasional consulting to study or advise on committee work or run its affairs. They can hire them as independent contractors or pay individuals daily up to the per diem equal to the committee’s highest regular employee pay. The committee chairman picks the consultants, and those contracts do not have to follow federal advertising rules.

Full Legal Text

Title 2, §6157

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(a)Funds authorized to be expended under section 6155 of this title may be used by the Majority or Minority Conference Committee of the Senate, with the approval of the Committee on Rules and Administration, to procure the temporary services (not in excess of one year) or intermittent services of individual consultants, or organizations thereof, to make studies or advise the committee with respect to any matter within its jurisdiction or with respect to the administration of the affairs of the committee.
(b)Such services in the case of individuals or organizations may be procured by contract as independent contractors, or in the case of individuals, by employment at daily rates of compensation not in excess of the per diem equivalent of the highest gross rate of compensation which may be paid to a regular employee of such committee. Such contracts shall not be subject to the provisions of section 6101 of title 41 or any other provision of law requiring advertising.
(c)Any such consultant or organization shall be selected for the Majority or Minority Conference Committee of the Senate by the chairman thereof.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 61g–7 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. In subsec. (b), “section 6101 of title 41” substituted for “section 5 of title 41” on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts. Section is from the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1985.

Amendments

1996—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104–197 inserted “or with respect to the administration of the affairs of the committee” before period at end.

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Citation

2 U.S.C. § 6157

Title 2 — The Congress

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60