2 USC § 4577 - Availability of appropriations during first three months of any fiscal year for aggregate of payments of gross compensation made to employees from Senate appropriation account for “Salaries, Officers and Employees”
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title: "2 USC § 4577 - Availability of appropriations during first three months of any fiscal year for aggregate of payments of gross compensation made to employees from Senate appropriation account for “Salaries, Officers and Employees”"
title_number: 2
title_name: "THE CONGRESS"
section_number: "4577"
section_name: "Availability of appropriations during first three months of any fiscal year for aggregate of payments of gross compensation made to employees from Senate appropriation account for “Salaries, Officers and Employees”"
chapter_number: 45
chapter_name: "CONGRESSIONAL PAY AND BENEFITS"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "SENATE"
part_number: "A"
part_name: "Amount and Type"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 98–367, title I, § 4, July 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 475.)"
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# § 4577. Availability of appropriations during first three months of any fiscal year for aggregate of payments of gross compensation made to employees from Senate appropriation account for “Salaries, Officers and Employees”
October 1, 1984
At no time during the first three months of any fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year which begins ) shall the aggregate of payments of gross compensation made to employees out of any line item appropriation within the Senate appropriation account for “Salaries, Officers and Employees” (other than the line item appropriations, within such account for “Administrative, clerical, and legislative assistance to Senators” and for “Agency contributions”) exceed twenty-five per centum of the total amount available for such line item appropriations for such fiscal year.
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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 98–367, title I, § 4, July 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 475.)
## Editorial Notes
### Codification
Section was formerly classified to prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Section is from the Congressional Operations Appropriation Act, 1985, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1985.