    [United States Senate Manual, 116th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 116-1]
    [Non-statutory Standing Orders and Regulations Affecting the Business of the Senate]
    [Pages 177-180]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

           107                SENIOR CITIZEN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

                    Resolved, That (a) each Senator is authorized to employ
                for not more than fourteen consecutive days each year during
                the month of May a senior citizen intern or interns to serve
                in his office in Washington, District of Columbia.
                    (b) To be eligible to serve as a senior citizen intern
                an individual shall certify to the Secretary of the Senate
                that he has attained the age of sixty years, is a bona fide
                resident of the State of his employing Senator, and is a
                citizen of the United States.
                    (c)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), for purposes
                of payment of compensation and travel expenses, senior
                citizen interns employed pursuant to this resolution shall
                be subject to the same limitations and restrictions
                applicable to Senators and Senate employees.

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                    (2) An outside vendor may provide for the travel and per
                diem expenses only of senior citizen interns in the Senior
                Citizen Intern Program subject to approval by the Committee
                on Rules and Administration. Documentation provided by such
                vendor may be accepted as official travel expense
                documentation for the purpose of reimbursing interns in the
                program for travel expenses.
                    Sec. 2. Compensation and payment under this resolution
                shall be paid from and charged against the clerk-hire and
                travel allowances of the Senator employing such senior
                citizen intern.
                    Sec. 3. The Committee on Rules and Administration is
                authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as it
                determines necessary to carry out this resolution.

                [S. Res. 219, 95-2, May 5, 1978; S. Res. 96, 102-1, Apr. 24,
                                                                      1991.]

           108
                transportation costs and travel expenses 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.

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                    (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--
                            (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 (in

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                        cluding 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.]