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§6504 Committee on Rules and Administration; Designation of Employees to Approve Vouchers for Payments From Senate Contingent Fund

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Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The committee can let its chair assign one or more staff to approve payment vouchers from the Senate contingent fund, and those approvals are treated as the committee's own approval.

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Title 2, §6504

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The Committee on Rules and Administration may authorize its chairman to designate any employee or employees of such Committee to approve in his behalf, all vouchers making payments from the contingent fund of the Senate, such approval to be deemed and held to be approval by the Committee on Rules and Administration for all intents and purposes.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 68–1 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–473 substituted “any employee or employees of such Committee” for “the committee Auditor and the committee Assistant Auditor”. 1981—Pub. L. 97–51 substituted “the committee Auditor and the committee Assistant Auditor” for “one committee employee”.

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2 U.S.C. § 6504

Title 2, The Congress

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102