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                        TITLE 22.--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE

                     Chapter 7.--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.

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         471.5  Sec. 276. Bureau of Interparliamentary Union; American
                    group; appropriation; disbursements.
                    That there is authorized to be appropriated for fiscal
                year 1976 and for each subsequent fiscal year--
                            (1) for the annual contribution of the United
                        States toward the maintenance of the Bureau of the
                        Interparliamentary Union for the promotion of
                        international arbitration, an amount equal to 13.61
                        per centum of the budget of the Interparliamentary
                        Union for the year with respect to which such
                        contribution is to be made if the American group of
                        the Interparliamentary Union has approved such
                        budget; and
                            (2) to assist in meeting the expenses of the
                        American group for such fiscal year, $90,000, or so
                        much thereof as may be necessary.

                Funds made available under paragraph (2) shall be disbursed
                on vouchers to be approved by the Chairman of the House
                delegation in the case of delegates from the House of
                Representatives or the Chairman of the Senate delegation in
                the case of delegates from the Senate, except that either
                such Chairman may authorize the executive secretary of the
                American group to approve such vouchers on his behalf. (June
                28, 1935, c. 322, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 425; Feb. 6, 1948, c. 48,
                62 Stat. 19; June 30, 1958, Pub. L. 85-477, ch. V,
                Sec. 502(b), 72 Stat. 272; Sept. 4, 1961, Pub. L. 87-195,
                Pt. IV, Sec. 710(a), 75 Stat. 465; Aug. 1, 1962, Pub. L. 87-
                565, Pt. IV, Sec. 404, 76 Stat. 263; Oct. 7, 1964, Pub. L.
                88-633, Pt. IV, Sec. 401, 78 Stat. 1014; Nov. 14, 1967, Pub.
                L. 90-137, Pt. IV, Sec. 402, 81 Stat. 463; Feb. 7, 1972,
                Pub. L. 92-226, Pt. IV, Sec. 404, 86 Stat. 34; Oct. 18,
                1973, Pub. L. 93-126, Sec. 3, 87 Stat. 451; Nov. 29, 1975,
                Pub. L. 94-141, Title II, Sec. 204(a), 89 Stat. 762; June
                15, 1977, Pub. L. 95-45, Sec. 4(d)(1), 91 Stat. 223; Oct. 7,
                1978, Pub. L. 95-426, Title VII, Sec. 710, 92 Stat. 994.)

         471.6  Sec. 276a-2. Conference of the Interparliamentary Union and
                    all other parliamentary conferences; appointment of
                    delegates from Senate; Chairman; Vice Chairman.
                    Senate delegates to each conference of the
                Interparliamentary Union, and to all other parliamentary
                conferences, shall be designated by the President of the
                Senate upon recommendations of the majority and minority
                leaders of the Senate. Unless the President of the Senate,
                upon the recommendation of the majority leader, determines
                otherwise, the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Senate
                delegation shall be a Member from the Foreign Relations
                Committee. Not fewer than two Senators designated to be in
                the Senate delegation to each conference of the
                Interparliamentary Union shall be members of the Committee
                on For-

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                eign Relations. (June 28, 1935, c. 322, Sec. 4, as added
                June 15, 1977, Pub. L. 95-45, Sec. 4(d)(3), 91 Stat. 223.)
         471.7  Sec. 276a-3. Executive secretary of American group of
                    Interparliamentary Union.
                    After December 31, 1977, the executive secretary of the
                American group of the Interparliamentary Union shall be an
                officer or employee of the Senate or the House of
                Representatives and shall be appointed--
                            (1) by the Chairman of the Senate delegation
                        upon recommendations of the majority and minority
                        leaders of the Senate for service during odd-
                        numbered Congresses; and
                            (2) by the Chairman of the House delegation for
                        service during even-numbered Congresses.

                (June 28, 1935, c. 322, Sec. 5, as added June 15, 1977, Pub.
                L. 95-45, Sec. 4(d)(3), 91 Stat. 223.)

         471.8  Sec. 276a-4. Auditing of accounts of House and Senate
                    delegations to Interparliamentary Union; finality and
                    conclusiveness of certificate of Chairman.
                    The certificate of the Chairman of the respective
                delegation to the Interparliamentary Union (or the
                certificate of the executive secretary of the American group
                if the Chairman delegates such authority to him) shall be
                final and conclusive upon the accounting officers in the
                auditing of all accounts of the House and Senate delegations
                to the Interparliamentary Union. (June 28, 1935, c. 322,
                Sec. 6, as added June 15, 1977, Pub. L. 95-45, Sec. 4(d)(3),
                91 Stat. 223.)
         471.9  Sec. 276c-1. Reports of expenditures by members of American
                    groups or delegations and employees; consolidated
                    reports by Congressional Committees; public inspection.
                    Each chairman or senior member of the House of
                Representatives and Senate group or delegation of the United
                States group or delegation to the Interparliamentary Union,
                the North Atlantic Assembly, the Canada-United States
                Interparliamentary Group, the Mexico-United States
                Interparliamentary Group, or any similar interparliamentary
                group of which the United States is a member or
                participates, by whom or on whose behalf local currencies
                owned by the United States are made available and expended
                and/or expenditures are made from funds appropriated for the
                expenses of such group or delegation, shall file with the
                chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate
                in the case of the group or delegation of the Senate, or
                with the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the
                House of Representatives in the case of the group or
                delegation of the House, an itemized report showing all such
                expenditures made by or on behalf of each Member or employee
                of the group or delegation together with the purposes of the
                expenditure, including per diem (lodging and meals),
                transportation, and other purposes. Within sixty days after
                the beginning of each regular session of Congress, the
                chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations and the
                chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs shall prepare
                consolidated reports showing with respect to each such group
                or delegation the total amount expended, the purposes of the
                expenditures, the amount expended for each such purpose, the
                names of the Members or employees by or on behalf of whom
                the expenditures were made and the amount expended by or on
                behalf of each Member or employee

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                for each such purpose. The consolidated reports prepared by
                the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
                Senate shall be filed with the Secretary of the Senate, and
                the consolidated reports prepared by the chairman of the
                Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House shall be filed
                with the Committee on House Administration of the House and
                shall be open to public inspection. (July 12, 1960, Pub. L.
                86-628, Sec. 105(b), 74 Stat. 460; Pub. L. 90-137, Pt. IV,
                Sec. 401(b), Nov. 14, 1967, 81 Stat. 463; Pub. L. 94-59,
                Title XI, Sec. 1104, July 25, 1975, 89 Stat. 299; H. Res.
                89, February 5, 1979.)

                        canada-united states interparliamentary group
        471.10  Sec. 276d. United States group; appointment; term; meetings.
                    Not to exceed twenty-four Members of Congress shall be
                appointed to meet jointly and at least annually and when
                Congress is not in session (except that this restriction
                shall not apply during the first session of the Eighty-sixth
                Congress or to meetings held in the United States) with
                representatives of the House of Commons and Senate of the
                Canadian Parliament for discussion of common problems in the
                interests of relations between the United States and Canada.
                Of the Members of the Congress to be appointed for the
                purposes of this section (hereinafter designated as the
                United States group) half shall be appointed by the Speaker
                of the House from Members of the House (not less than four
                of whom shall be from the Foreign Affairs Committee), and
                half shall be appointed by the President of the Senate upon
                recommendations of the majority and minority leaders of the
                Senate from Members of the Senate (not less than four of
                whom shall be from the Foreign Relations Committee).
                    Such appointments shall be for the period of each
                meeting of the Canada-United States Interparliamentary group
                except for the four members of the Foreign Affairs Committee
                and the four members of the Foreign Relations Committee,
                whose appointments shall be for the duration of each
                Congress.
                    The Chairman or Vice Chairman of the House delegation
                shall be a Member from the Foreign Affairs Committee, and,
                unless the President of the Senate, upon the recommendation
                of the Majority Leader, determines otherwise, the Chairman
                or Vice Chairman of the Senate delegation shall be a Member
                from the Foreign Relations Committee. (Pub. L. 86-42,
                Sec. 1, June 11, 1959, 73 Stat. 72; Pub. L. 95-45,
                Sec. 4(a), June 15, 1977, 91 Stat. 222; H. Res. 89, February
                5, 1979.)

       471.10a  Sec. 276e. Authorization of appropriations; disbursements.
                    An appropriation of $70,000 annually is authorized,
                $35,000 of which shall be for the House delegation and
                $35,000 for the Senate delegation, or so much thereof as may
                be necessary, to assist in meeting the expenses of the
                United States group of the Canada-United States
                Interparliamentary group for each fiscal year for which an
                appropriation is made, the House and Senate portions of such
                appropriation to be disbursed on vouchers to be approved by
                the Chairman of the House delegation and the Chairman of the
                Senate delegation, respectively. (Pub. L. 86-42, Sec. 2,
                June 11, 1959, 73 Stat. 72; Pub. L. 94-350, Title I,
                Sec. 118(a), July 12, 1976, 90 Stat. 827; Pub. L. 103-236,
                Title V, Sec. 502(a)(2), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 462.)

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                        mexico-united states interparliamentary group
        471.11  Sec. 276h. United States group; appointment; term; meetings.
                    Not to exceed twenty-four Members of Congress shall be
                appointed to meet jointly and at least annually with
                representatives of the Chamber of Deputies and Chamber of
                Senators of the Mexican Congress for discussion of common
                problems in the interests of relations between the United
                States and Mexico. Of the Members of the Congress to be
                appointed for the purposes of this section (hereinafter
                designated as the United States group) half shall be
                appointed by the Speaker of the House from Members of the
                House (not less than four of whom shall be from the Foreign
                Affairs Committee), and half shall be appointed by the
                President of the Senate upon recommendations of the majority
                and minority leaders of the Senate from Members of the
                Senate (not less than four of whom shall be from the Foreign
                Relations Committee). Such appointments shall be for the
                period of each meeting of the Mexico-United States
                Interparliamentary group except for the four members of the
                Foreign Affairs Committee, and the four members of the
                Foreign Relations Committee, whose appointments shall be for
                the duration of each Congress.
                    The Chairman or Vice Chairman of the House delegation
                shall be a Member from the Foreign Affairs Committee, and,
                unless the President of the Senate, upon the recommendation
                of the Majority Leader, determines otherwise, the Chairman
                or Vice Chairman of the Senate delegation shall be a Member
                from the Foreign Relations Committee. (Pub. L. 86-420,
                Sec. 1, Apr. 9, 1960, 74 Stat. 40; Pub. L. 95-45, Sec. 4(b),
                June 15, 1977, 91 Stat. 222; H. Res. 89, February 5, 1979.)

       471.11a  Sec. 276i. Authorization of appropriations; disbursements.
                    An appropriation of $80,000 annually is authorized,
                $40,000 of which shall be for the House delegation and
                $40,000 for the Senate delegation, or so much thereof as may
                be necessary, to assist in meeting the expenses of the
                United States group of the Mexico-United States
                Interparliamentary group for each fiscal year for which an
                appropriation is made, the House and Senate portions of such
                appropriation to be disbursed on vouchers to be approved by
                the Chairman of the House delegation and the Chairman of the
                Senate delegation, respectively. (As amended Pub. L. 101-
                515, Title III, Sec. 304(c), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 2129;
                Pub. L. 103-236, Title V, Sec. 502(a)(1), Apr. 30, 1994, 108
                Stat. 461.)
        471.11  Sec. 276l. British-American Interparliamentary Group.
                (a) Establishment and meetings.
                    Not to exceed 24 Members of Congress shall be appointed
                to meet annually and when the Congress is not in session
                (except that this restriction shall not apply to meetings
                held in the United States), with representatives of the
                House of Commons and the House of Lords of the Parliament of
                Great Britain for discussion of common problems in the
                interest of relations between the United States and Great
                Britain. The Members of Congress so appointed shall be
                referred to as the ``United States group'' of the United
                States Interparliamentary Group.
                (b) Appointment of members.
                    Of the Members of Congress appointed for purposes of
                this section--

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                            (1) half shall be appointed by the Speaker of
                        the House of Representatives from among Members of
                        the House (not less than 4 of whom shall be members
                        of the Committee on Foreign Affairs), and
                            (2) half shall be appointed by the President Pro
                        Tempore of the Senate, upon recommendations of the
                        majority and minority leaders of the Senate, from
                        among Members of the Senate (not less than 4 of whom
                        shall be members of the Committee on Foreign
                        Relations) unless the majority and minority leaders
                        of the Senate determine otherwise.
                (c) Chair and Vice Chair.
                    (1) The Chair or Vice Chair of the House delegation of
                the United States group shall be a member from the Committee
                on Foreign Affairs.
                    (2) The President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall
                designate the Chair or Vice Chair of the Senate delegation.
                (d) Funding.
                    There is authorized to be appropriated $50,000 for each
                fiscal year to assist in meeting the expenses of the United
                States group for each fiscal year for which an appropriation
                is made, half of which shall be for the House delegation and
                half of which shall be for the Senate delegation. The House
                and Senate portions of such appropriations shall be
                disbursed on vouchers to be approved by the Chair of the
                House delegation and the Chair of the Senate delegation,
                respectively.
                (e) Certification of expenditures.
                    The certificate of the Chair of the House delegation or
                the Senate delegation of the United States group shall be
                final and conclusive upon the accounting officers in the
                auditing of the accounts of the United States group.
                (f) Annual report.
                    The United States group shall submit to the Congress a
                report for each fiscal year for which an appropriation is
                made for the United States group, which shall include its
                expenditures under such appropriation.
                (g) [Omitted] (Pub. L. 102-138, Title I, Sec. 168, Oct. 28,
                    1991, 105 Stat. 676.)
        471.13  Sec. 276m. United States Delegation to the Parliamentary
                    Assembly of the Conference on Security and Cooperation
                    in Europe (CSCE).
                (a) Establishment.
                    In accordance with the allocation of seats to the United
                States in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Conference on
                Security and Cooperation in Europe (hereinafter referred to
                as the ``CSCE Assembly'') not to exceed 17 Members of
                Congress shall be appointed to meet jointly and annually
                with representative parliamentary groups from other
                Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)
                member-nations for the purposes of--
                            (1) assessing the implementation of the
                        objectives of the CSCE;

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                            (2) discussing subjects addressed during the
                        meetings of the Council of Ministers for Foreign
                        Affairs and the biennial Summit of Heads of State or
                        Government;
                            (3) initiating and promoting such national and
                        multilateral measures as may further cooperation and
                        security in Europe.
                (b) Appointment of Delegation.
                    For each meeting of the CSCE Assembly, there shall be
                appointed a United States Delegation, as follows:
                            (1) In 1992 and every even-numbered year
                        thereafter, 9 Members shall be appointed by the
                        Speaker of the House from Members of the House (not
                        less than 4 of whom, including the Chairman of the
                        United States Delegation, shall be from the
                        Committee on Foreign Affairs); and 8 Members shall,
                        upon recommendations of the Majority and Minority
                        leaders of the Senate, be appointed by the President
                        Pro Tempore of the Senate from Members of the Senate
                        (not less than 4 of whom, including the Vice
                        Chairman of the United States Delegation, shall be
                        from the Committee on Foreign Relations, unless the
                        President Pro Tempore of the Senate, upon
                        recommendations of the Majority and Minority leaders
                        of the Senate, determines otherwise).
                            (2) In every odd-numbered year beginning in
                        1993, 9 Members shall, upon recommendation of the
                        Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate, be
                        appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate
                        from Members of the Senate (not less than 4 of whom,
                        including the Chairman of the United States
                        Delegation, shall be from the Committee on Foreign
                        Relations, unless the President Pro Tempore of the
                        Senate, upon recommendations of the Majority and
                        Minority leaders of the Senate, determines
                        otherwise); and 8 Members shall be appointed by the
                        Speaker of the House from Members of the House (not
                        less than 4 of whom, including the Vice Chairman,
                        shall be from the Committee on Foreign Affairs).
                (c) Administrative support.
                    For the purpose of providing general staff support and
                continuity between successive delegations, each United
                States Delegation shall have 2 secretaries (one of whom
                shall be appointed by the Chairman of the Committee on
                Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and one of
                whom shall be appointed by the Chairman of the Delegation of
                the Senate).

                (d) Funding.

                        (1) United States participation.

                            There is authorized to be appropriated for each
                        fiscal year $80,000 to assist in meeting the
                        expenses of the United States delegation. For each
                        fiscal year for which an appropriation is made under
                        this subsection, half of such appropriation may be
                        disbursed on voucher to be approved by the Chairman
                        and half of such appropriation may be disbursed on
                        voucher to be approved by the Vice Chairman.
                        (2) Availability of appropriations.
                            Amounts appropriated pursuant to this subsection
                        are authorized to be available until expended.

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                (e) Annual report.
                    The United States Delegation shall, for each fiscal year
                for which an appropriation is made, submit to the Congress a
                report including its expenditures under such appropriation.
                The certificate of the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the
                United States Delegation shall be final and conclusive upon
                the accounting officers in the auditing of the accounts of
                the United States Delegation. Pub. L. 102-138, Title I,
                Sec. 169, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 677.)

                                           Note

                    There are authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal
                year $50,000 for expenses of United States participation in
                the United States-European Community Interparliamentary
                Group. (November 22, 1983, Public Law 98-164, Sec. 109(c),
                as amended September 19, 1986, Public Law 99-415, Sec. 7(b),
                and October 1, 1988, Public Law 100-459, Sec. 303(c)).

                            Chapter 24.--MUTUAL SECURITY PROGRAM

           472  Sec. 1754. Foreign currencies.

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                (b) Availability to Members and employees of Congress;
                    authorization requirements; reports.
                    (1)(A) Notwithstanding section 1306 of Title 31, or any
                other provision of law--
                            (i) local currencies owned by the United States,
                        which are in excess of the amounts reserved under
                        section 2362(a) of this title, and of the
                        requirements of the United States Government in
                        payment of its obligations outside the United
                        States, as such requirements may be determined from
                        time to time by the President; and
                            (ii) any other local currencies owned by the
                        United States in amounts not to exceed the
                        equivalent of $75 per day per person or the maximum
                        per diem allowance established under the authority
                        of subchapter I of chapter 57 of Title 5 for
                        employees of the United States Government while
                        traveling in a foreign country, whichever is
                        greater, exclusive of the actual cost of
                        transportation;

                shall be made available to Members and employees of the
                Congress for their local currency expenses when authorized
                as provided in subparagraph (B).

                    (B) The authorization required for purposes of
                subparagraph (A) may be provided--
                            (i) by the Speaker of the House of
                        Representatives in the case of a Member or employee
                        of the House;
                            (ii) by the chairman of a standing or select
                        committee of the House of Representatives in the
                        case of a member or employee of that committee;
                            (iii) by the President of the Senate, the
                        President pro tempore of the Senate, the Majority
                        Leader of the Senate, or the Minority Leader of the
                        Senate, in the case of a Member or employee of the
                        Senate;
                            (iv) by the chairman of a standing, select, or
                        special committee of the Senate in the case of a
                        member or employee of that committee or of an
                        employee of a member of that committee; and

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                            (v) by the chairman of a joint committee of the
                        Congress in the case of a member or employee of that
                        committee..
                    (C) Whenever local currencies owned by the United States
                are not otherwise available for purposes of this subsection,
                the Secretary of the Treasury shall purchase such local
                currencies as may be necessary for such purposes, using any
                funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
                    (2) On a quarterly basis, the chairman of each committee
                of the House of Representatives or the Senate and of each
                joint committee of the Congress (A) shall prepare a
                consolidated report (i) which itemizes the amounts and
                dollar equivalent values of each foreign currency expended
                and the amounts of dollar expenditures from appropriated
                funds in connection with travel outside the United States,
                stating the purposes of the expenditures including per diem
                (lodging and meals), transportation, and other purposes, and
                (ii) which shows the total itemized expenditures, by such
                committee and by each member or employee of such committee
                (including in the case of a committee of the Senate, each
                employee of a member of the committee who received an
                authorization under paragraph (1) from the chairman of the
                committee); and (B) shall forward such consolidated report
                to the Clerk of the House of Representatives (if the
                committee is a committee of the House of Representatives or
                a joint committee whose funds are disbursed by the Clerk of
                the House) or to the Secretary of the Senate (if the
                committee is a committee of the Senate or a joint committee
                whose funds are disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate).
                Each such consolidated report shall be open to public
                inspection and shall be published in the Congressional
                Record within ten legislative days after the report is
                forwarded pursuant to this paragraph. In the case of the
                Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the
                Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of
                Representatives, such consolidated report may, in the
                discretion of the chairman of the committee, omit such
                information as would identify the foreign countries in which
                members and employees of that committee traveled.
                    (3)(A) Each Member or employee who receives an
                authorization under paragraph (1) from the Speaker of the
                House of Representatives, the President of the Senate, the
                President pro tempore of the Senate, the Majority Leader of
                the Senate, or the Minority Leader of the Senate, shall
                within thirty days after the completion of the travel
                involved, submit a report setting forth the information
                specified in paragraph (2), to the extent applicable, to the
                Clerk of the House of Representatives (in the case of a
                Member of the House or an employee whose salary is disbursed
                by the Clerk of the House) or the Secretary of the Senate
                (in the case of a Member of the Senate or an employee whose
                salary is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate). In the
                case of an authorization for a group of Members or
                employees, such reports shall be submitted for all Members
                of the group by its chairman, or if there is no designated
                chairman, by the ranking Member or if the group does not
                include a Member, by the senior employee in the group. Each
                report submitted pursuant to this subparagraph shall be open
                to public inspection.
                    (B) On a quarterly basis, the Clerk of the House of
                Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate shall each
                prepare a consolidation of the reports received by them
                under this paragraph with respect to ex-

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                penditures during the preceding quarter by each Member and
                employee or by each group in the case of expenditures made
                on behalf of a group which are not allocable to individual
                members of the group. Each such consolidation shall be open
                to public inspection and shall be published in the
                Congressional Record within ten legislative days after its
                completion. (Aug. 26, 1954, ch. 937, title V, Sec. 502, 68
                Stat. 849, amended Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1262, Sec. 104, 68
                Stat. 1223; July 8, 1955, ch. 301, Sec. 9(a), 69 Stat. 288;
                July 18, 1956, ch. 627, Sec. 9(b), 70 Stat. 560; June 30,
                1958, Sec. 401(a), 72 Stat. 268; August 27, 1958, Pub. L.
                85-766, c. X, Sec. 1001, 72 Stat. 880; May 14, 1960, Pub. L.
                86-472, Sec. 401(a), 74 Stat. 138; July 12, 1960, Pub. L.
                86-628, Sec. 105(a), 74 Stat. 460; Sept. 4, 1961, Pub. L.
                87-195, Pt. III, Sec. 642(a)(2), 75 Stat. 460; Oct. 7, 1964,
                Pub. L. 88-633, 78 Stat. 1015; Oct. 18, 1973, Pub. L. 93-
                126, Sec. 5, 87 Stat. 452; Aug. 13, 1974, Pub. L. 93-371,
                Sec. 107, 88 Stat. 444; July 25, 1975, Pub. L. 94-59, Title
                XI, Sec. 1105, 89 Stat. 299; Dec. 18, 1975, Pub. L. 94-157,
                Title I, ch. IV, 89 Stat. 837; July 12, 1976, Pub. L. 94-
                350, Title IV, Sec. 402, 90 Stat. 833; Oct. 1, 1976, Pub. L.
                94-440, Title I, Sec. 109, 90 Stat. 1445; Sept. 26, 1978,
                Pub. L. 95-384, Sec. 22(a), 92 Stat. 742.)
         472.5  Sec. 1928a. North Atlantic Treaty Parliamentary Conference;
                    participation; appointment of United States Group.
                    Not to exceed twenty-four Members of Congress shall be
                appointed to meet jointly and annually with representative
                parliamentary groups from other NATO (North Atlantic Treaty
                Organization) members, for discussion of common problems in
                the interests of the maintenance of peace and security in
                the North Atlantic area. Of the Members of the Congress to
                be appointed for the purposes of this resolution
                (hereinafter designated as the ``United States Group''),
                half shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House from
                Members of the House (not less than four of whom shall be
                from the Committee on Foreign Affairs), and half shall be
                appointed by the President of the Senate upon
                recommendations of the majority and minority leaders of the
                Senate from Members of the Senate. Not more than seven of
                the appointees from the Senate shall be of the same
                political party. The Chairman or Vice Chairman of the House
                delegation shall be a Member from the Foreign Affairs
                Committee, and, unless the President of the Senate, upon the
                recommendation of the Majority Leader, determines otherwise,
                the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Senate delegation shall
                be a Member from the Foreign Relations Committee. Each
                delegation shall have a secretary. The secretaries of the
                Senate and House delegations shall be appointed,
                respectively, by the chairman of the Committee on Foreign
                Relations of the Senate and the chairman of the Committee on
                Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. (July 11,
                1956, c. 562, Sec. 1, 70 Stat. 523; Dec. 16, 1963, Pub. L.
                88-205, Pt. IV, Sec. 406, 77 Stat. 392; Pub. L. 95-45
                Sec. 4(c), June 15, 1977, 91 Stat. 222; H. Res. 89, February
                5, 1979; December 22, 1987, Pub. L. 100-204, Title VII,
                Sec. 744(a), 101 Stat. 1396.)
         472.6  Sec. 1928b. Authorization of appropriations.
                    There is authorized to be appropriated annually, (1),
                for the annual contribution of the United States toward the
                maintenance of the North Atlantic Assembly, such sum as may
                be agreed upon by the United States Group and approved by
                such Assembly, but in no event to exceed

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                for any year an amount equal to 25 per centum of the total
                annual contributions made for that year by all members of
                the North Atlantic Treaty Organization toward the
                maintenance of such Assembly, and (2) $100,000, $50,000 for
                the House delegation and $50,000 for the Senate delegation,
                or so much thereof as may be necessary, to assist in meeting
                the expenses of the United States Group of the North
                Atlantic Assembly for each fiscal year for which an
                appropriation is made, such appropriation to be dispersed on
                voucher to be approved by the Chairman of the House
                delegation and the Chairman of the Senate delegation. (July
                11, 1956, c. 562, Sec. 2, 70 Stat. 523; June 30, 1958, Pub.
                L. 85-477, ch. V, Sec. 502(d), 72 Stat. 273; Nov. 14, 1967,
                Pub. L. 90-137, Pt. IV, Sec. 401(a), 81 Stat. 463; Feb. 7,
                1972, Pub. L. 92-226, Pt. IV, Sec. 405, 86 Stat. 34; Dec.
                22, 1987, Pub. L. 100-202, Sec. 101(a) [Title III,
                Sec. 303], 101 Stat. 1329, 1329-23; Dec. 22, 1987, Pub. L.
                100-204, Title VII, Sec. 744(b), 101 Stat. 1396.)