    [United States Senate Manual, 113th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 113-1]
    [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.]