[United States Senate Manual, 110th Congress]
[S. Doc. 110-1]
[Non-statutory Standing Orders and Regulations Affecting the Business of the Senate]
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       129     INTERPARLIAMENTARY ACTIVITIES AND RECEPTION OF CERTAIN 
                                  FOREIGN OFFICIALS

                Resolved, That the Committee on Foreign Relations is 
            authorized from March 1, 1981, until otherwise provided by 
            law, to expend not to exceed $25,000 each fiscal year to 
            assist the Senate properly to discharge and coordinate its 
            activities and responsibilities in connection with 
            participation in various interparliamentary institutions and 
            to facilitate the interchange and reception in the United 
            States of members of foreign legislative bodies and 
            prominent officials of foreign governments and 
            intergovernmental organizations.
                Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Senate is authorized and 
            directed to pay from the contingent fund of the Senate the 
            actual and necessary expenses incurred in connection with 
            activities authorized by this resolution and approved in 
            advance by the chairman of the Committee on Foreign 
            Relations upon vouchers certified by the Senator incurring 
            such expenses and approved by the chairman.

            [S. Res. 247, 87-2, Feb. 7, 1962; S. Res. 91, 94-1, Mar. 18, 
                                1975; S. Res. 281, 96-2, Mar. 11, 1980.]