[United States Senate Manual, 107th Congress]
[S. Doc. 107-1]
[Non-statutory Standing Orders and Regulations Affecting the Business of the Senate]
[Pages 141-144]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]
97 SENIOR CITIZEN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Resolved, That (a) each Senator is authorized to employ
for not more than fourteen consecutive days each year during
the month of May a senior citizen intern or interns to serve
in his office in Washington, District of Columbia.
(b) To be eligible to serve as a senior citizen intern
an individual shall certify to the Secretary of the Senate
that he has attained the age of sixty years, is a bona fide
resi
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dent of the State of his employing Senator, and is a citizen
of the United States.
(c)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), for purposes
of payment of compensation and travel expenses, senior
citizen interns employed pursuant to this resolution shall
be subject to the same limitations and restrictions
applicable to Senators and Senate employees.
(2) An outside vendor may provide for the travel and per
diem expenses only of senior citizen interns in the Senior
Citizen Intern Program subject to approval by the Committee
on Rules and Administration. Documentation provided by such
vendor may be accepted as official travel expense
documentation for the purpose of reimbursing interns in the
program for travel expenses.
Sec. 2. Compensation and payment under this resolution
shall be paid from and charged against the clerk-hire and
travel allowances of the Senator employing such senior
citizen intern.
Sec. 3. The Committee on Rules and Administration is
authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as it
determines necessary to carry out this resolution.
[S. Res. 219, 95-2, May 5, 1978, S. Res. 96, 102-1, Apr. 24,
1991.]
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transportation costs and travel expenses incurred by members
and employees of the senate when engaged in authorized
foreign travel
Resolved, That until otherwise provided by law or
resolution of the Senate, the contingent fund of the Senate
is made available, as provided in this resolution, to defray
the costs of transportation and the ordinary and necessary
travel expenses of Members and employees of the Senate when
engaged in authorized foreign travel. The Secretary of the
Senate is authorized to advance funds, under authority of
this resolution, in the same manner provided for committees
of the Senate under the authority of Public Law 118, Eighty-
first Congress, approved June 22, 1949.
Sec. 2. (a) Transportation costs and ordinary and
necessary travel expenses incurred by a Member or employee
engaged in authorized foreign travel shall be paid upon
certification of such Member or employee, and upon vouchers
approved by the Senator who authorized such foreign travel.
(b) Transportation costs and ordinary and necessary
travel expenses which are incurred for a group of Members or
employees engaged in authorized foreign travel shall be
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paid upon certification of the Member who is chairman of
such group (or, if no chairman has been designated, upon
certification of the ranking Member of such group) or, if
the group does not include a Member, upon certification of
the senior employee in such group, and upon vouchers
approved by the Senator who authorized such foreign travel.
(c) The reports of the Secretary of the Senate setting
forth amounts paid from the contingent fund under authority
of this resolution shall, at the request of the chairman of
the Select Committee on Intelligence, omit any matter which
would identify the foreign countries in which Members and
employees of the Select Committee traveled on behalf of the
Select Committee.
Sec. 3. Payment of transportation costs and ordinary and
necessary travel expenses may not be paid under this
resolution to the extent that appropriated funds or foreign
currencies under section 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act
of 1954 are utilized to defray such costs and expenses. Such
funds and currencies shall be used to the maximum extent
possible.
Sec. 4. For purposes of this resolution--
(1) The term ``foreign travel'' means travel
outside the United States and includes travel within
the United States which is the beginning or end of
travel outside the United States.
(2) The term ``authorized foreign travel'' means
foreign travel on official business on behalf of the
Senate or a committee of the Senate which is
authorized--
(A) in the case of foreign travel on
behalf of the Senate, by the President pro
tempore, Majority Leader, or Minority Leader
of the Senate; and
(B) in the case of foreign travel on
behalf of a committee of the Senate, by the
chairman of that committee.
(3) The term ``committee of the Senate''
includes all standing, select, and special
committees of the Senate and all joint committees of
the Congress whose funds are disbursed by the
Secretary of the Senate.
(4) The term ``employee of the Senate'' includes
an individual (other than a Member) whose salary is
disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate or who is
treated as an employee of the Senate for purposes of
the Senate Code of Official Conduct.
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(5) The term ``ordinary and necessary travel
expenses'' includes, in the case of a group of
Members engaged in authorized foreign travel, such
special expenses as the chairman (or, if there is no
chairman, the ranking Member) deems appropriate,
including, to the extent not otherwise provided,
reimbursements to any agency of the Government for
(A) expenses incurred on behalf of the group, (B)
compensation (including overtime) of employees of
such agency officially detailed to the group, and
(C) expenses incurred in connection with providing
appropriate hospitality.
[S. Res. 179, 95-1, May 25, 1977.]