§ 72a-1e. — Assistance to Senators with committee memberships by employees in office of Senator.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC72a-1e]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 4--OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Sec. 72a-1e. Assistance to Senators with committee memberships
by employees in office of Senator
(1) Designation
A Senator may designate employees in his office to assist him in
connection with his membership on committees of the Senate. An employee
may be designated with respect to only one committee.
(2) Certification; professional staff privileges
An employee designated by a Senator under this section shall be
certified by him to the chairman and ranking minority member of the
committee with respect to which such designation is made. Such employee
shall be accorded all privileges of a professional staff member (whether
permanent or investigatory) of such committee including access to all
committee sessions and files, except that any such committee may
restrict access to its sessions to one staff member per Senator at a
time and require, if classified material is being handled or discussed,
that any staff member possess the appropriate security clearance before
being allowed access to such material or to discussion of it. Nothing
contained in this paragraph shall be construed to prohibit a committee
from adopting policies and practices with respect to the application of
this section which are similar to the policies and practices adopted
with respect to the application of section 705(c)(1) \1\ of Senate
Resolution 4, 95th Congress, and section 72a-1d(c)(1) \1\ of this title.
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\1\ See References in Text note below.
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(3) Termination
A Senator shall notify the chairman and ranking minority member of a
committee whenever a designation of an employee under this section with
respect to such committee is terminated.
(Pub. L. 95-94, title I, Sec. 111(c), Aug. 5, 1977, 91 Stat. 662.)
References in Text
Section 705(c)(1) of Senate Resolution 4, 95th Congress, referred to
in par. (2), which was not classified to the Code, was repealed by Pub.
L. 95-94, title I, Sec. 111(e)(2), Aug. 5, 1977, 91 Stat. 663.
Section 72a-1d(c)(1) of this title, referred to in par. (2), was
repealed by Pub. L. 95-94, title I, Sec. 111(e)(1), Aug. 5, 1977, 91
Stat. 663.
Codification
Section is from the Congressional Operations Appropriation Act,
1978, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act,
1978.
Effective Date
Section 111(f) of Pub. L. 95-94 provided that: ``This section, and
the amendments made by subsection (d) and the repeals made by subsection
(e) [enacting this section, amending section 61-1 of this title,
enacting notes set out under section 61-1 of this title, and repealing
notes set out under section 72a-1d of this title], shall take effect on
October 1, 1977.''
