                          TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
 
CHAPTER 4--OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 
Sec. 72a-1b. Approval of employment and compensation of 
        committee employees by House standing committees
        
    Standing committees of the House shall have authority to approve the 
employment and compensation of committee employees (other than special 
and select committee employees) from the effective date of the beginning 
of each Congress, or such subsequent date as their service commenced.

(Pub. L. 87-130, Sec. 103, Aug. 10, 1961, 75 Stat. 334.)

                          Codification

    Section is based on House Resolution No. 16, Eighty-seventh 
Congress, Jan. 3, 1961, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 
87-130.


                        Increases in Compensation

    Increases in compensation for House officers and employees under 
authority of Federal Salary Act of 1967 (Pub. L. 90-206), Federal Pay 
Comparability Act of 1970 (Pub. L. 91-656), and Legislative Branch 
Appropriations Act, 1988 (Pub. L. 100-202), see sections 60a-2 and 60a-
2a of this title, and Salary Directives of Speaker of the House, set out 
as notes under those sections.
