[Deschler's Precedents, Volume 1, Chapters 1 - 6]
[Chapter 3.  Party Organization]
[E. Party Whips]
[Â§ 25. Allowances - Clerk-Hire Allowance]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                               CHAPTER 3
 
                           Party Organization
 
                             E. PARTY WHIPS
 
Sec. 25. Allowances--Clerk-Hire Allowance

    By statute,(20) a specified allowance is given for 
office personnel in the offices of the majority and minority whips, in 
addition to the clerk-hire allowances given to Members generally. 
Similarly, a statute(1) contains specific provisions 
relating to allowances for airmail and special delivery stamps in the 
offices of the majority and minority whips.
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20. 2 USC Sec. 333.
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Allowances

Sec. 25.1 On occasion, the clerk-hire allowance of the whips has been 
    increased, or new positions created in the offices of the whips, 
    and payments authorized from the contingent fund of the House.

    In the 83d Congress, a resolution was offered relating to the 
employment of administrative assistants in the offices of the majority 
and minority whips; the proceedings were as follows:(2)
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 2. 99 Cong. Rec. 1219, 83d Cong. 1st Sess., Feb. 18, 1953.
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        Mr. [Charles A.] Halleck [of Indiana]: Mr. Speaker, I offer a 
    privileged resolution (H. Res. 147) and ask for its immediate 
    consideration.
        The Clerk read as follows:

            Resolved, That in order to enable the majority whip and the 
        minority whip each to employ an administrative assistant at a 
        rate of basic compensation not to exceed $8,000 per annum, 
        there shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House, 
        until otherwise provided by law, compensation for the 
        employment of such administrative assistants.

        The resolution was agreed to.

    Similarly, on Mar. 9, 1965,(3) the following resolution 
relating in part to the compensation of administrative assistants to 
the party whips, was adopted:
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 3. 111 Cong. Rec. 4405, 89th Cong. 1st Sess.
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                                  H. Res. 258

        Resolved, That, effective March 1, 1965, 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: . . .
        (4) the majority whip of the House;
        (5) the minority whip of the House . . .

    As a further illustration, a resolution adopted on Jan. 26, 
1966,(4)

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authorized additional clerical help in the offices of, among others, 
the majority and minority whips, as follows.
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 4. 112 Cong. Rec. 1125, 89th Cong. 2d Sess.
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                                  H. Res. 690

        Resolved, That effective February 1, 1966, there shall be paid 
    out of the contingent fund of the House of Representatives, until 
    otherwise provided by law, such sums as may be necessary for: . . .
        (b) An additional position in the Office of the Majority Whip, 
    the basic compensation of which shall be at a rate not to exceed 
    $2,500 per annum.
        (c) An additional position in the Office of the Minority Whip, 
    the basic compensation of which shall be at a rate not to exceed 
    $2,500 per annum.
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