[60] NONSTATUTORY STANDING ORDERS NOT EM- COMMITTEE PERSONNEL AND EXPENDITURE REPORTS [60] Resolved, That the Senate shall not (1) authorize the pay- [60.1], ment from the contingent fund of the Senate of the expenses, in excess of $5,000, of any inquiry or investigation hereafter authorized, or (2) increase the amount heretofore authorized to be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate in connection with any inquiry or investigation, unless, prior to adoption of the resolution authorizing such payment or providing for such increase, the committee or subcommittee thereof authorized to conduct such inquiry or investigation shall have submitted to the Committee on Rules and Administration' a budget, in such form as the committee may require, setting forth its estimates of expenses proposed to be incurred for personal services, hearings, and travel, and such other information as the committee may require. SEC. 2. Whenever the head of any department or agency of [60.2] the Government shall have detailed or assigned personnel of such department or agency to the staff of any Senate committee or subcommittee thereof, the appropriations of such department or agency from which the personnel so assigned or detailed is paid shall be reimbursed from funds available As amended, S. Jour. 173, 80-1, Mar. 28, 1947. * See also "Limitations on Appointment of Professional Members," Senate Manual section [275.6]. [60.3] [60.4] [61] to the committee or subcommittee at the end of each quarterly period in the amount of the salaries of such personnel while on such detail or assignment; and the services of any personnel so detailed or assigned shall not be accepted or utilized unless, at the time of such detail or assignment, funds are available to such committee or subcommittee for the reimbursement of appropriations, as herein provided, for the period of such detail or assignment. SEC. 3. The foregoing provisions of this resolution shall become effective on April 1, 1946. 1 SEC. 4. The Committee on Rules and Administration 1 of the Senate is authorized to make such studies as may be necessary to enable it to prescribe uniform requirements as to the form and content of budgets required to be submitted under the first section of this resolution and otherwise to carry out its functions under such section. [S. Jour. 288, 79-1, June 28, 1945. PRINTING IN CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Resolved, That hereafter no written or printed matter shall be received for printing in the body of the Congressional Record as a part of the remarks of any Senator unless such matter (1) shall have been read orally by such Senator on the floor of the Senate, or (2) shall have been offered and received for printing in such manner as to indicate clearly that the contents thereof were not read orally by such Senator on the floor of the Senate. All such matter shall be printed in the Record in accordance with the rules prescribed by the Joint Committee on Printing. No request 1 As amended, S. Jour. 173, 80-1, Mar. 28, 1947. shall be entertained by the Presiding Officer to suspend by unanimous consent the requirements of this resolution. SPECIAL DEPUTIES [S. Jour. 510, 80-1, July 23, 1947. Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate is authorized and empowered from time to time to appoint such special deputies as he may think necessary to serve process or perform other duties devolved upon the Sergeant at Arms by law or the rules or orders of the Senate, or which may hereafter be devolved upon him, and in such case they shall be officers of the Senate; and any act done or return made by the deputies so appointed shall have like effect and be of the same validity as if performed or made by the Sergeant at Arms in person. [S. Jour. 47, 51-1, Dec. 17, 1889. PERSONS NOT FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES OF SENATE Resolved, That hereafter, standing or select committees employing the services of persons who are not full-time employees of the Senate or any committee thereof shall submit monthly reports to the Senate (or to the Secretary during a recess or adjournment) showing (1) the name and address of any such person; (2) the name and address of the department or organization by whom his salary is paid; and (3) the annual rate of compensation in each case. [S. Jour. 407, 78-2, Aug. 23, 1944. FLOWERS IN THE SENATE CHAMBER Resolved, That until further orders the Sergeant at Arms is instructed not to permit flowers to be brought into the Senate Chamber. [8. Jour. 261, 58-3, Feb. 24, 1905. [62] [63] [64] [65] [65.1] [65.2] LENGTH OF SERVICE AND AGE OF SENATE PAGES Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the Sergeant at Arms to classify the pages of the Senate, so that at the close of the present and each succeeding Congress, one-half the number shall be removed * [S. Jour. 514, 33-1, July 17, 1854. Resolved, ** That in no case shall a page of the Senate be appointed for duty in the Senate Chamber who is younger than fourteen years of age and who has not completed the eighth grade of school, or is seventeen years of age or older, except that those enrolled in the Senate page school who attain age seventeen may serve as pages through the session of the Senate in which the page-school year terminates. [S. Jour. 54, 81-1, Jan. 13, 1949; S. Jour. 23, 86–2, Jan. 11, 1960. [66] [67] SEAL OF THE SENATE Resolved, That the Secretary shall have the custody of the seal, and shall use the same for the authentication of process transcripts, copies, and certificates whenever directed by the Senate; and may use the same to authenticate copies of such papers and documents in his office as he may lawfully give copies of. [S. Jour. 194, 49-1, Jan. 20, 1886. MARBLE BUSTS OF VICE PRESIDENTS Resolved, That marble busts of those who have been Vice Presidents of the United States shall be placed in the Senate wing of the Capitol from time to time, that the Architect of the Capitol is authorized, subject to the advice and approval of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, to carry into execution the object of this resolution, and the expenses incurred in doing so shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate. [S. Jour. 40, 55-2, Jan. 6, 1898; S. Jour. 173, 80-1, Mar. 28, 1947. READING OF WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS Ordered, That, unless otherwise directed, on the twentysecond day of February in each year, or if that day shall be on Sunday, then on the day following, immediately after the reading of the Journal, Washington's Farewell Address shall be read to the Senate by a Senator to be designated for the purpose by the Presiding Officer; and that thereafter the Senate will proceed with its ordinary business. Resolved, That witnesses summoned to appear before the Senate or any of its committees shall be entitled to a witness fee rated at not to exceed $16 for each full day spent in traveling to and from the place of examination and for each full day in attendance. A witness shall also be entitled to reimbursement of the actual and necessary transportation expenses incurred by him in traveling to and from the place of examination, in no case to exceed 12 cents a mile for the distance actually traveled by him for the purpose of appearing as a witness. [8. Jour. 286, 82–1, May 23, 1951; S. Jour. 572, 84-1, July 30, 1955; S. Jour. 654, 87-1, Aug. 21, 1961. The Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1961 (July 12, 1960, Public Law 86-628, 74 Stat. 449) contained the following restriction on advances of witness fees: "No part of any appropriation disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate shall be available hereafter for the payment to any person, at the time of the service upon him of a subpena requiring his attendance at any inquiry or hearing conducted by any committee of the Congress or of the Senate or any subcommittee of any such committee, of any witness fee or any sum of money as an advance payment of any travel or subsistence expense which may be Incurred by such person in responding to that subpena." [68] [69] |