US Code

Public Law 119-73 (01/23/2026)

2 U.S.C. § 5101

Employment of administrative assistants for Speaker and House Majority and Minority Leaders; compensation; appropriations

The Speaker, the majority leader, and the minority leader of the House of Representatives are each authorized to employ an administrative assistant, who shall receive basic compensation at a rate not to exceed $8,000 a year. There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the payment of such compensation.

Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 75360 Stat. 834(, title II, § 201(c), .)

Editorial Notes

Codification

section 74a of this titleSection was formerly classified to prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

section 4301 of this titleSection effective , see section 245 of act , set out as a note under .

Basic Compensation of Administrative Assistants

Pub. L. 85–462, § 4(n)72 Stat. 209

“The basic compensation of the Administrative Assistants to the Speaker, Majority Leader, Minority Leader, Majority Whip, and Minority Whip, shall be at the rate of $8,880 per annum.”
, , , provided that:

Pub. L. 89–90, § 10379 Stat. 281

“That effective , there shall be payable from the contingent fund of the House, until otherwise provided by law, for any Member of the House who has served as majority leader and as minority leader of the House, an additional $8,880 basic per annum for an administrative assistant.”
House Resolution No. 127, Eighty-ninth Congress, , which was enacted into permanent law by , , , provided:

Pub. L. 89–90, § 10379 Stat. 281

act Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782“That, effective , there shall be payable from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives, until otherwise provided by law, an amount which will permit the payment of basic compensation per annum, at a rate not in excess of the highest amount which, together with additional compensation authorized by law, will not exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Classification Act of 1949, as amended [], to the administrative assistant of each of the following:
“(1)
the Speaker of the House;
“(2)
the majority leader of the House;
“(3)
the minority leader of the House;
“(4)
the majority whip of the House;
“(5)
the minority whip of the House;
“(6)
each Member of the House who has served as Speaker of the House; and
“(7)
each Member of the House who has served as majority leader, and as minority leader, of the House.”
House Resolution No. 258, Eighty-ninth Congress, , which was enacted into permanent law by , , , provided:

Section 207(c) of House Resolution 988, Ninety-third Congress, , provided for the compensation of the administrative assistants referred to in House Resolution 1015, Ninetieth Congress, , at a rate not in excess of the minimum rate of pay in effect for one pay level above that of employees (referred to in clause 6(a)(1) of Rule XI) to whom clause 6(c) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives applied.

Increases in Compensation

Pub. L. 90–206Pub. L. 91–656Pub. L. 100–202Increases in compensation for House officers and employees under authority of Federal Salary Act of 1967 (), Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970 (), and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1988 (), see sections 4531 and 4532 of this title, and Salary Directives of Speaker of the House, set out as notes under those sections.