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§6629 Purchase, Lease, Exchange, Maintenance, and Operation of Vehicles Out of Account for Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of Senate Within Senate Contingent Fund; Authorization of Appropriations

Title 2 › CHAPTER 65 — SENATE OFFICERS AND ADMINISTRATION › SUBCHAPTER III — SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER OF SENATE › Part B — General Powers and Duties › § 6629

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each year, starting with the year that ends September 30, 1985, Congress can put money into a Senate contingent fund account for the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper. These extra funds pay to buy, lease, trade, maintain, and run vehicles. The money pays for one vehicle each for the Vice President, the President pro tempore, the Senate Majority Leader, the Senate Minority Leader, the Majority Whip, the Minority Whip, and the attending physician. It also pays for as many mail vehicles as needed under Senate Resolution 90 of the 100th Congress, vehicles for the offices of the Secretary of the Senate, the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, the Secretary for the Majority, and the Secretary for the Minority, and any other vehicles that a law specifically allows.

Full Legal Text

Title 2, §6629

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For each fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985) there is authorized to be appropriated to the account, within the contingent fund of the Senate, for the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, such funds (which shall be in addition to funds authorized to be so appropriated for other purposes) as may be necessary for the purchase, lease, exchange, maintenance, and operation of vehicles as follows: one for the Vice President, one for the President pro tempore of the Senate, one for the Majority Leader of the Senate, one for the Minority Leader of the Senate, one for the Majority Whip of the Senate, one for the Minority Whip of the Senate, one for the attending physician, one as authorized by Senate Resolution 90 of the 100th Congress such number as is needed for carrying mails, and for official use of the offices of the Secretary of the Senate, the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, the Secretary for the Majority, and the Secretary for the Minority, and such additional number as is otherwise specifically authorized by law.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Senate Resolution 90 of the 100th Congress, referred to in text, which was agreed to Jan. 28, 1987, provided in part for the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate to provide, by lease or purchase, and maintain an automobile for the former President pro tempore of the Senate. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 68–5 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section is from the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1985.

Amendments

1987—Pub. L. 100–202 substituted “one for the attending physician, one as authorized by Senate Resolution 90 of the 100th Congress” for “and” and inserted “, and such additional number as is otherwise specifically authorized by law”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1987 Amendment Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(i) [title I, § 3(b)], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–290, 1329–294, provided that: “The

Amendments

made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall be effective in the case of fiscal years ending after September 30, 1986.”

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

2 U.S.C. § 6629

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Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110