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PUBLIC LAW 624-JUNE 27, 1956

Inquiries and investigations: For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate or conducted pursuant to section 134(a) of Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, including $400,000 for the Committee on Appropriations, to be available also for the purposes mentioned in Senate Resolution Numbered 193, agreed to October 14, 1943, and Public Law 20, Eightieth Congress, $2,000,000. Folding Documents: For the employment of personnel for folding speeches and pamphlets at a gross rate of not exceeding $1.61 per hour per person, notwithstanding any other provision of law, $29,000. Senate restaurants: For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended under the supervision of the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, $55,000. Motor vehicles: For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $16,560. Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $1,370,000. Postage Stamps: For Office of the Secretary, $650; Office of the Sergeant at Arms, $225; Offices of the Secretaries for the Majority and the Minority, $100; and for air-mail and specialrdelivery stamps for Senators and the President of the Senate, as authorized by law, $38,800, in all, $39,775, and the maximum allowance per capita for air-mail and special-delivery stamps of $300 is increased to $400 for the fiscal year 1957, and thereafter. Stationery: For stationery for Senators and for the President of the Senate, including $12,900 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $187,500. Communications: For an amount for communications which may be expended interchangeably for payment, in accordance with such limitations and restrictions as may oe prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration, of charges on official telegrams and longdistance telephone calls made by or on behalf of Senators or the President of the Senate, such telephone calls to be in addition to those authorized by the provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1947 (60 Stat. 392; 2 U.S.C. 46c, 46d, 46e), as amended, and the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1949 (63 Stat. 77; 2 U.S.C. 4 6 d - l), $14,550.

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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, each Senator may fix the basic compensation of one employee in his office at a rate of not to exceed $8,040 per annum in addition to other positions authorized by law. The Sergeant at Arms hereafter is authorized and directed to secure office space in suitable office space in post office or other Federal buildings in the ^*'**'^ buildings. State of each Senator for the use of such Senator and in the city to be designated by him: Provided, That in the event suitable space is not available in such buildings and a Senator leases or rents office space elsewhere, the Sergeant at Arms is authorized to approve for payment, from the contingent fund of the Senate, vouchers covering bona fide statements of rentals due in an amount not exceeding $1,200 per annum for each Senator. The Sergeant at Arms of the Senate hereafter is authorized and of«ce expenses, directed to approve for payment from the contingent fund of the Senate to each Senator an amount not to exceed $150 quarterly, upon certification of each such Senator, for official office expenses incurred

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