---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 5144"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "5144"
heading: "Lump-sum allowances for House Minority Leader and Majority Whip"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/5144"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — House of Representatives Leadership"
  - "Subchapter III — Majority and Minority Leaders and Whips"
---

# §5144. Lump-sum allowances for House Minority Leader and Majority Whip

- (a) The aggregate amount otherwise authorized to be appropriated for a fiscal year for the lump-sum allowance for the Office of the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives and the aggregate amount otherwise authorized to be appropriated for a fiscal year for the lump-sum allowance for the Office of the Majority Whip of the House of Representatives shall each be increased by $333,000.
- (b) This section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2000 and each succeeding fiscal year.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–31, title III, § 3008, May 21, 1999, 113 Stat. 93.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 74a–10 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is from the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act.