§ 276l. — BritishAmerican Interparliamentary Group.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC276l]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
SUBCHAPTER II-A--BRITISH-AMERICAN INTERPARLIAMENTARY GROUP
Sec. 276l. British-American Interparliamentary Group
(a) Establishment and meetings
Not to exceed 24 Members of Congress shall be appointed to meet
annually and when the Congress is not in session (except that this
restriction shall not apply to meetings held in the United States), with
representatives of the House of Commons and the House of Lords of the
Parliament of Great Britain for discussion of common problems in the
interest of relations between the United States and Great Britain. The
Members of Congress so appointed shall be referred to as the ``United
States group'' of the United States Interparliamentary Group.
(b) Appointment of Members
Of the Members of Congress appointed for purposes of this section--
(1) half shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of
Representatives from among Members of the House (not less than 4 of
whom shall be members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs), and
(2) half shall be appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the
Senate, upon recommendations of the majority and minority leaders of
the Senate, from among Members of the Senate (not less than 4 of
whom shall be members of the Committee on Foreign Relations) unless
the majority and minority leaders of the Senate determine otherwise.
(c) Chair and Vice Chair
(1) The Chair or Vice Chair of the House delegation of the United
States group shall be a member from the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
(2) The President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall designate the
Chair or Vice Chair of the Senate delegation.
(d) Funding
There is authorized to be appropriated $50,000 for each fiscal year
to assist in meeting the expenses of the United States group for each
fiscal year for which an appropriation is made, half of which shall be
for the House delegation and half of which shall be for the Senate
delegation. The House and Senate portions of such appropriations shall
be disbursed on vouchers to be approved by the Chair of the House
delegation and the Chair of the Senate delegation, respectively.
(e) Certification of expenditures
The certificate of the Chair of the House delegation or the Senate
delegation of the United States group shall be final and conclusive upon
the accounting officers in the auditing of the accounts of the United
States group.
(f) Annual report
The United States group shall submit to the Congress a report for
each fiscal year for which an appropriation is made for the United
States group, which shall include its expenditures under such
appropriation.
(Pub. L. 102-138, title I, Sec. 168, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 676.)
Codification
Section is comprised of section 168 of Pub. L. 102-138. Subsec. (g)
of section 168 of Pub. L. 102-138 amended section 1928e of this title.
Change of Name
Committee on Foreign Affairs of House of Representatives treated as
referring to Committee on International Relations of House of
Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
Appropriations for Expenses of Interparliamentary Groups
Pub. L. 98-164, title I, Sec. 109(b), (c), Nov. 22, 1983, 97 Stat.
1019, as amended by Pub. L. 99-415, Sec. 7(b), Sept. 19, 1986, 100 Stat.
949; Pub. L. 100-459, title III, Sec. 303(b), Oct. 1, 1988, 102 Stat.
2207; Pub. L. 101-515, title III, Sec. 304(b), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat.
2128; Pub. L. 106-113, div. B, Sec. 1000(a)(7) [div. A, title VII,
Sec. 701(a)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A-459; Pub. L. 107-77,
title IV, Sec. 408(b)(4), Nov. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 791, provided that:
``(b) There are authorized to be appropriated each fiscal year
$100,000, to be equally divided between delegations of the Senate and
the House of Representatives, to assist in meeting the expenses of the
United States Group of the British-American Parliamentary Group. Amounts
appropriated under this section [amending section 1928e of this title
and enacting this note] are authorized to remain available until
expended.
``(c) There are authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year
$50,000 for expenses of United States participation in the Transatlantic
Legislators' Dialogue (United States-European Union Interparliamentary
Group).''
[A permanent appropriation to carry out section 109(b) and (c) of
Pub. L. 98-164, set out above, is contained in section 101(a) [title
III, Sec. 303] of Pub. L. 100-202, set out as a Permanent Appropriation
for Delegation Expenses note under section 276e of this title.]
