[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2313 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2313

 To provide each Member of the Senate with a mail allowance sufficient 
to permit at least 1 mailing per fiscal year to each postal address in 
  each county in the State of that Member where the Member holds and 
                   personally attends a town meeting.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 29, 2000

  Mr. Specter introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide each Member of the Senate with a mail allowance sufficient 
to permit at least 1 mailing per fiscal year to each postal address in 
  each county in the State of that Member where the Member holds and 
                   personally attends a town meeting.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MAIL ALLOWANCE FOR SENATORS.

    Section 506 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1973 (2 U.S.C. 
58) is amended by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) In addition to the funds provided for in subsection (b), the 
amount available to a Member under subsection (b)(3)(A)(iii) shall 
include an additional amount sufficient to pay the expenses that would 
be incurred mailing 1 letter to each postal address in each county in 
the State of that Member where the Member holds and personally attends 
a town meeting (not to exceed 1 town meeting per county per year).''.
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