---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 4701"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "4701"
heading: "Subletting duties of employees of Senate or House"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/4701"
units:
  - "Chapter 47 — Congressional Ethics"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
---

# §4701. Subletting duties of employees of Senate or House


No [employee](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) of Congress, either in the Senate or House, shall sublet to, or hire, another to do or perform any part of the duties or work attached to the position to which he was appointed.


## Source credit

(Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 177, § 1, 28 Stat. 771.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 101 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.