ARTICLE [XXVI]

SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

SEC. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

PROPOSAL AND RATIFICATION

This amendment was proposed by the Ninety-second Congress by Senate Joint Resolution No. 7, which was approved by the Senate on Mar. 10, 1971, and by the House of Representatives on Mar. 23, 1971. It was declared by the Administrator of General Services on July 5, 1971, to have been ratified.

This amendment was ratified by the following States: Connecticut, Mar. 23, 1971; Delaware, Mar. 23, 1971; Minnesota, Mar. 23, 1971; Tennessee, Mar. 23, 1971; Washington, Mar. 23, 1971; Hawaii, Mar. 24, 1971; Massachu

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setts, Mar. 24, 1971; Idaho, Mar. 30, 1971; Montana, Mar. 31, 1971; Arkansas, Apr. 1, 1971; Iowa, Apr. 1, 1971; Nebraska, Apr. 2, 1971; Kansas, Apr. 7, 1971; Michigan, Apr. 7, 1971; Indiana, Apr. 8, 1971; Maine, Apr. 9, 1971; Vermont, Apr. 16, 1971; California, Apr. 19, 1971; South Carolina, Apr. 28, 1971; West Virginia, Apr. 28, 1971; Pennsylvania, May 3, 1971; New Jersey, May 4, 1971; Texas, May 5, 1971; Maryland, May 6, 1971; New Hampshire, May 13, 1971; Arizona, May 17, 1971; Colorado, May 24, 1971; Louisiana, May 27, 1971; Rhode Island, May 27, 1971; New York, June 2, 1971; Oregon, June 5, 1971; Missouri, June 14, 1971; Wisconsin, June 18, 1971; Illinois, June 29, 1971; Alabama, June 30, 1971; Ohio June 30, 1971; North Carolina, July 1, 1971; Oklahoma, July 1, 1971.

CERTIFICATION OF VALIDITY

Publication of the certifying statement of the Administrator of General Services that the Amendment had become valid was made on July 7, 1971, F.R. Doc. 71-9691, 36 F.R. 12725.

Chapter 1.-ELECTION OF SENATORS AND

REPRESENTATIVES

§ 2. Number and apportionment of Representatives.

CODIFICATION

(a) In addition to postage stamps authorized to be furnished under any other provision of law, until otherwise provided by law, the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall procure and furnish United States postage stamps (1) to each Representative, the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, and the Delegate from the District of Columbia in an amount not exceeding $210 and (2) to each standing committee of the House of Representatives upon request of the chairman thereof, in an amount not exceeding $130.

(b) In addition to postage stamps authorized under any other provision of law, until otherwise provided by law, the Speaker, the majority and minority leaders, and the majority and minority whips of the House of Representatives shall each be allowed United States postage stamps in an amount not exceeding $190, and the following officers of the House of Representatives shall each be allowed such stamps in the amounts herein specified as follows: The Clerk of the House, $340; the Sergeant at Arms, $250; the Doorkeeper, $210; and the Postmaster, $170.

(c) There shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House of Representatives such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section. (Pub. L. 92-184, ch. IV, § 401, Dec. 15, 1971, 85 Stat. 636.)

CODIFICATION

Section is based on House Resolution No. 420, May 18, 1971, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 92-184. A previous section 42, based on act Jan. 31, 1873, ch. 82, 17 Stat. 421, which was set out as R.S. § 44, prohibiting the making of an allowance to Senators, Representatives, or Delegates on account of postage, was previously omitted as obsolete.

§ 42a. Airmail and special-delivery postage allowances for Senators.

The Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed to procure and furnish each fiscal year to each Senator and the President of the Senate, upon request by such person, United States air mail and special-delivery postage stamps in an amount not exceeding $1,215 for the fiscal year 1972 and thereafter for the mailing of postal matters arising in connection with his or her official business. Senators from States partially or wholly west of the Mississippi River shall be allowed an additional $305 each fiscal year. (As amended July 9, 1971, Pub. L. 92–51, § 101, 85 Stat. 128.)

AMENDMENTS

1971-Pub. L. 92-51 increased the maximum allowance from $1,056 to $1,215 for fiscal year 1972 and thereafter and the additional allowance for Senators from States partially or wholly west of the Mississippi River from $264 to $305 for each fiscal year.

§ 43b. Reimbursement of Senators and employees of Senators and Members of House of Representatives for additional transportation expenses. The contingent fund of the Senate is hereby made available for reimbursement of actual transportation expenses incurred by each Senator in traveling on official business, and such expenses incurred by employees in that Senator's office in making round trips on official business, by the nearest usual route, between Washington, District of Columbia, and the home State of the Senator involved, or within that State during such travel. The total amount of such expenses for which each Senator and the employees in his office may be reimbursed in any fiscal year shall not exceed a sum equal to forty times (in the case of a Senator from a State having a population of less than ten million inhabitants), or forty-four times (in the case of Senator from a State having a population of ten million or more inhabitants), fourteen cents per mile for the number of miles certified by the Senator as the distance between Washington, District of Columbia, and the place of his residence in his home State, if such distance is less than 375 miles; thirteen cents per mile, if such certified distance is 375 miles or more but less than 750 miles; twelve cents per mile, if such certified distance is 750 miles or more but less than 1,000 miles; eleven cents per mile, if such certified distance is 1,000 miles

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