---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 196"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "196"
heading: "Senate resolutions for investigations; limit of cost"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/196"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Congressional and Committee Procedure; Investigations"
---

# §196. Senate resolutions for investigations; limit of cost


Senate resolutions providing for inquiries and investigations shall contain a limit of cost of such investigation, which limit shall not be exceeded except by vote of the Senate authorizing additional amounts.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1926, ch. 44, § 1, 44 Stat. 162.)