                          TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
 
               CHAPTER 9D--OFFICE OF SENATE LEGAL COUNSEL
 
Sec. 288k. Attorney General relieved of responsibility

    (a) Upon receipt of written notice that the Counsel has undertaken, 
pursuant to section 288c(a) of this title, to perform any 
representational service with respect to any designated party in any 
action or proceeding pending or to be instituted, the Attorney General 
shall--
        (1) be relieved of any responsibility with respect to such 
    representational service;
        (2) have no authority to perform such service in such action or 
    proceeding except at the request or with the approval of the Senate; 
    and
        (3) transfer all materials relevant to the representation 
    authorized under section 288c(a) of this title to the Counsel, 
    except that nothing in this subsection shall limit any right of the 
    Attorney General under existing law to intervene or appear as amicus 
    curiae in such action or proceeding.

    (b) The Attorney General shall notify the Counsel with respect to 
any proceeding in which the United States is a party of any 
determination by the Attorney General or Solicitor General not to appeal 
any court decision affecting the constitutionality of an Act or joint 
resolution of Congress within such time as will enable the Senate to 
direct the Counsel to intervene as a party in such proceeding pursuant 
to section 288e of this title.

(Pub. L. 95-521, title VII, Sec. 712, Oct. 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 1883.)
