                          TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
 
CHAPTER 4--OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 
Sec. 126b. Substitute reporters of debates and expert 
        transcribers; temporary reporters of debates and expert 
        transcribers; payments from Senate contingent fund
        
    The Secretary of the Senate is on and after June 5, 1981, authorized 
to employ, by contract or otherwise, substitute reporters of debates and 
expert transcribers at daily rates of compensation, or temporary 
reporters of debates and expert transcribers at annual rates of 
compensation; no temporary reporters of debates or expert transcribers 
may be employed under authority of this provision for more than ninety 
days in any fiscal year; and payments made under authority of this 
section shall be made from the contingent fund of the Senate upon 
vouchers approved by the Secretary of the Senate.

(Pub. L. 89-90, July 27, 1965, 79 Stat. 266; Pub. L. 97-12, title I, 
Sec. 105, June 5, 1981, 95 Stat. 61.)

                          Codification

    ``On and after June 5, 1981'' substituted in text for ``hereafter'', 
which probably meant after the date of enactment of Pub. L. 97-12 rather 
than the date of enactment of Pub. L. 89-90.


                               Amendments

    1981--Pub. L. 97-12 amended section generally, substituting 
``authorized to employ, by contract or otherwise, substitute reporters 
of debates and expert transcribers at daily rates of compensation, or 
temporary reporters of debates and expert transcribers at annual rates 
of compensation; no temporary reporters of debates or expert 
transcribers may be employed under authority of this provision for more 
than ninety days in any fiscal year; and payments made under authority 
of this section shall be made from the contingent fund of the Senate 
upon vouchers approved by the Secretary of the Senate'' for ``authorized 
to obtain by contract or otherwise, emergency reporters and transcribers 
as may be necessary, payments therefor to be made form the contingent 
fund of the Senate''.
