    [United States Senate Manual, 112th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 112-1]
    [Non-statutory Standing Orders and Regulations Affecting the Business of the Senate]
    [Pages 182-183]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

           105    TRANSPORTATION COSTS AND TRAVEL EXPENESES INCURRED BY MEMBERS
                    AND EMPLOYEES OF THE SENATE WHEN ENGAGED IN AUTHORIZED
                    FOREIGN TRAVEL

                    Resolved, That until otherwise provided by law or
                resolution of the Senate, the contingent fund of the Senate
                is made available, as provided in this resolution, to defray
                the costs of transportation and the ordinary and necessary
                travel expenses of Members and employees of the Senate when
                engaged in authorized foreign travel. The Secretary of the
                Senate is authorized to advance funds, under authority of
                this resolution, in the same manner provided for committees
                of the Senate under the authority of Public Law 118, Eighty-
                first Congress, approved June 22, 1949.
                    Sec. 2. (a) Transportation costs and ordinary and
                necessary travel expenses incurred by a Member or employee
                engaged in authorized foreign travel shall be paid upon
                certification of such Member or employee, and upon vouchers
                approved by the Senator who authorized such foreign travel.
                    (b) Transportation costs and ordinary and necessary
                travel expenses which are incurred for a group of Members or
                employees engaged in authorized foreign travel shall be paid
                upon certification of the Member who is chairman of such
                group (or, if no chairman has been designated, upon
                certification of the ranking Member of such group) or, if
                the group does not include a Member, upon certification of
                the senior employee in such group, and upon vouchers
                approved by the Senator who authorized such foreign travel.
                    (c) The reports of the Secretary of the Senate setting
                forth amounts paid from the contingent fund under authority
                of this resolution shall, at the request of the chairman of
                the Select Committee on Intelligence, omit any matter which
                would identify the foreign countries in which Members and
                employees of the Select Committee traveled on behalf of the
                Select Committee.
                    Sec. 3. Payment of transportation costs and ordinary and
                necessary travel expenses may not be paid under this
                resolution to the extent that appropriated funds or foreign
                currencies under section 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act
                of 1954 are utilized to defray such costs and expenses. Such
                funds and currencies shall be used to the maximum extent
                possible.
                    Sec. 4. For purposes of this resolution--

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                            (1) The term ``foreign travel'' means travel
                        outside the United States and includes travel within
                        the United States which is the beginning or end of
                        travel outside the United States.
                            (2) The term ``authorized foreign travel'' means
                        foreign travel on official business on behalf of the
                        Senate or a committee of the Senate which is
                        authorized--
                                    (A) in the case of foreign travel on
                                behalf of the Senate, by the President pro
                                tempore, Majority Leader, or Minority Leader
                                of the Senate; and
                                    (B) in the case of foreign travel on
                                behalf of a committee of the Senate, by the
                                chairman of that committee.
                            (3) The term ``committee of the Senate''
                        includes all standing, select, and special
                        committees of the Senate and all joint committees of
                        the Congress whose funds are disbursed by the
                        Secretary of the Senate.
                            (4) The term ``employee of the Senate'' includes
                        an individual (other than a Member) whose salary is
                        disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate or who is
                        treated as an employee of the Senate for purposes of
                        the Senate Code of Official Conduct.
                            (5) The term ``ordinary and necessary travel
                        expenses'' includes, in the case of a group of
                        Members engaged in authorized foreign travel, such
                        special expenses as the chairman (or, if there is no
                        chairman, the ranking Member) deems appropriate,
                        including, to the extent not otherwise provided,
                        reimbursements to any agency of the Government for
                        (A) expenses incurred on behalf of the group, (B)
                        compensation (including overtime) of employees of
                        such agency officially detailed to the group, and
                        (C) expenses incurred in connection with providing
                        appropriate hospitality.

                                          [S. Res. 179, 95-1, May 25, 1977.]