[United States Senate Manual, 107th Congress]
[S. Doc. 107-1]
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[Pages 233-235]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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TITLE I.--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 2.--ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS; FORMALITIES OF ENACTMENT;
REPEALS; SEALING OF INSTRUMENTS
251 Sec. 112. Statutes at large; contents; admissibility in
evidence.
The Archivist of the United States shall cause to be
compiled, edited, indexed, and published, the United States
Statutes at Large, which shall contain all the laws and
concurrent resolutions enacted during each regular session
of Congress; all proclamations by the President in the
numbered series issued since the date of the adjournment of
the regular session of Congress next preceding; and also any
amendments to the Constitution of the United States proposed
or ratified pursuant to article V thereof since that date,
together with the certificate of the Archivist of the United
States issued in compliance with the provision contained in
section 106b of this title. In the event of an extra session
of Congress, the Archivist of the United States shall cause
all the laws and concurrent resolutions enacted during said
extra session to be consolidated with, and published as part
of, the contents of the volume for the next regular session.
The United States Statutes at Large shall be legal evidence
of laws, concurrent resolutions, treaties, international
agreements other than treaties, proclamations by the
President, and proposed or ratified amendments to the
Constitution of the United States therein contained, in all
the courts of the United States, the several States, and the
Territories and insular possessions of the United States.
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 636; Sept. 23, 1950, ch.
1001, Sec. 1, 64 Stat. 979; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, Sec. 3,
65 Stat. 710; Oct. 19, 1984, Pub. L. 98-497, Title I,
Sec. 107(d), 98 Stat. 2291.)
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252 Sec. 112b. United States international agreements;
transmission to Congress.
(a) The Secretary of State shall transmit to the
Congress the text of any international agreement (including
the text of any oral international agreement, which
agreement shall be reduced to writing), other than a treaty,
to which the United States is a party as soon as practicable
after such agreement has entered into force with respect to
the United States but in no event later than sixty days
thereafter. However, any such agreement the immediate public
disclosure of which would, in the opinion of the President,
be prejudicial to the national security of the United States
shall not be so transmitted to the Congress but shall be
transmitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives under an appropriate injunction of secrecy
to be removed only upon due notice from the President. Any
department or agency of the United States Government which
enters into any international agreement on behalf of the
United States shall transmit to the Department of State the
text of such agreement not later than twenty days after such
agreement has been signed.
(b) Not later than March 1, 1979, and at yearly
intervals thereafter, the President shall, under his own
signature, transmit to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and the chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Relations of the Senate a report with respect to each
international agreement which, during the preceding year,
was transmitted to the Congress after the expiration of the
60-day period referred to in the first sentence of
subsection (a), describing fully and completely the reasons
for the late transmittal.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an
international agreement may not be signed or otherwise
concluded on behalf of the United States without prior
consultation with the Secretary of State. Such consultation
may encompass a class of agreements rather than a particular
agreement.
(d) The Secretary of State shall determine for and
within the executive branch whether an arrangement
constitutes an international agreement within the meaning of
this section.
(e) The President shall, through the Secretary of State,
promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to
carry out this section. (Pub. L. 92-403, Sec. 1, Aug. 22,
1972, 86 Stat. 619; Pub. L. 95-45, Sec. 5, June 15, 1977, 91
Stat. 224; Pub. L. 95-426, Title VII, Sec. 708, Oct. 7,
1978, 92 Stat. 993; Pub. L. 103-236, Sec. 138, Apr. 30,
1994, 108 Stat. 397; Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 1, Nov. 2, 1994,
108 Stat. 4581.)
Chapter 3.--CODE OF LAWS OF UNITED STATES AND SUPPLEMENTS;
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CODE AND SUPPLEMENTS
253 Sec. 211. Copies [of the Code of Laws] to Members of
Congress.
In addition to quotas provided for by section 210 of
this title there shall be printed, published, and
distributed of the Code of Laws relating to the District of
Columbia with tables, index and other ancillaries, suitably
bound and with thumb inserts and other convenient devices to
distinguish the parts, and of the supplements to both codes
as provided for by sections 202, 203 of this title, ten
copies of each for each
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Member of the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Congress in which the original authorized publication is
made, for his use and distribution, and in addition for the
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives
and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a number of
bound copies of each equal to ten times the number of
members of such committees, and one bound copy of each for
the use of each committee of the Senate and House of
Representatives. (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.)
254 Sec. 212. Additional distribution at each new Congress.
In addition the Superintendent of Documents shall, at
the beginning of the first session of each Congress, supply
to each Senator and Representative in such Congress, who may
in writing apply for the same, one copy each of the Code of
Laws of the United States, the Code of Laws relating to the
District of Columbia, and the latest supplement to each
code: Provided, That such applicant shall certify in his
written application for the same that the volume or volumes
for which he applies is intended for his personal use
exclusively: And provided further, That no Senator or
Representative during his term of service shall receive
under this section more than one copy each of the volumes
enumerated herein. (July 30, 1947, Ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.)
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