---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 4311"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "4311"
heading: "Approval of employment and compensation of committee employees by House standing committees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/4311"
units:
  - "Chapter 43 — Congressional Committees"
  - "Subchapter II — House of Representatives"
---

# §4311. Approval of employment and compensation of committee employees by House standing committees


Standing committees of the House shall have authority to approve the employment and compensation of committee [employees](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) (other than special and select committee [employees](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2)) from the effective date of the beginning of each Congress, or such subsequent date as their service commenced.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–130, § 103, Aug. 10, 1961, 75 Stat. 334.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 72a–1b of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is based on House Resolution No. 16, Eighty-seventh Congress, Jan. 3, 1961, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 87–130.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Increases in Compensation

Increases in compensation for House officers and employees under authority of Federal Salary Act of 1967 (Pub. L. 90–206), Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970 (Pub. L. 91–656), and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1988 (Pub. L. 100–202), see sections 4531 and 4532 of this title, and Salary Directives of Speaker of the House, set out as notes under those sections.