---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 4522"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "4522"
heading: "Deductions for withdrawal"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/4522"
units:
  - "Chapter 45 — Congressional Pay and Benefits"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
  - "Part B — Administration"
---

# §4522. Deductions for withdrawal


When any [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) or Delegate withdraws from his seat and does not return before the adjournment of Congress, he shall, in addition to the sum deducted for each day, forfeit a sum equal to the amount which would have been allowed by law for his mileage in returning home; and such sum shall be deducted from his compensation, unless the withdrawal is with the leave of the Senate or House of Representatives respectively.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 41.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 40 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

R.S. § 41 derived from Res. July 17, 1862, No. 68, § 2, 12 Stat. 628.