[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 [[Page 142]] 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.] 98 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 [[Page 143]] 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. [[Page 144]] (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.]