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§6509 Vouchering Senate Office Charges

Title 2 › Chapter 65— SENATE OFFICERS AND ADMINISTRATION › Subchapter I— GENERAL › § 6509

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Senate support offices may send bills to the Secretary of the Senate when they either paid expenses for another Senate office or are owed money for goods or services they provided to another office. The money will be charged to the official funds of the office that benefited. Each bill must include a signed statement from the support office showing the amount and saying the charges could be paid from that office’s official funds. Bills must follow the rules set by the Committee on Rules and Administration.

Full Legal Text

Title 2, §6509

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(a)Charges for expenses of any office, the funds of which are disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate, may be vouchered by a Senate support office paying such expenses or to which such charges are owed for goods or services provided, if—
(1)such charges are paid on behalf of the office incurring such expenses by such Senate support office; or
(2)such charges are payable to such Senate support office for goods or services provided by such office to the office incurring such expenses.
(b)Payments under this section shall be charged to the official funds of the office on whose behalf the expenses were paid, or which received the goods or services for which payment is required.
(c)Any voucher submitted by a Senate support office pursuant to this section shall be accompanied by a certification from such office of the amount and that such purchases were of the nature that they could be charged to the official funds of the office on whose behalf charges were paid, or to which goods or services were provided.
(d)Vouchers under this section shall be submitted and paid subject to such regulations as may be promulgated by the Committee on Rules and Administration.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 68–8 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section is from the Congressional Operations Appropriations Act, 1994, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1994.

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Citation

2 U.S.C. § 6509

Title 2 — The Congress

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60