---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 24"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "24"
heading: "Secretary of Senate or assistant secretary may administer oaths"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/24"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Organization of Congress"
---

# §24. Secretary of Senate or assistant secretary may administer oaths


The Secretary of the Senate, and the assistant secretary thereof, shall, respectively, have power to administer any oath or affirmation required by law, or by the rules or orders of the Senate, to be taken by any officer of the Senate, and to any witness produced before it.


## Source credit

(Apr. 18, 1876, ch. 66, § 2, 19 Stat. 34; Pub. L. 92–51, July 9, 1971, 85 Stat. 125.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Assistant secretary of the Senate deemed successor in references to chief clerk of the Senate in all laws, rules, resolutions, and orders, effective July 1, 1971, under provisions of Pub. L. 92–51, July 9, 1971, 85 Stat. 125.