---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 5343"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "5343"
heading: "Staff expenses for House Members attending organizational caucus or conference"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/5343"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — House of Representatives Members"
  - "Subchapter III — Expenses and Allowances"
---

# §5343. Staff expenses for House Members attending organizational caucus or conference

- (a) **In general—** Each [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2)-elect (other than an incumbent [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) reelected to the ensuing Congress) who attends a caucus or conference called under [section 29a(a) of this title](/usc/2/29a.md?p=a), and each incumbent [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) reelected to the ensuing Congress who attends any such caucus or conference convening after the adjournment sine die of the Congress in the year involved, shall be entitled to designate one staff person to be paid for one round trip between that person’s place of residence, provided such place of residence is in the district which the [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2)-elect or incumbent [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) represents, and Washington, District of Columbia, for the purpose of accompanying that [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2)-elect or incumbent [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) to such caucus or conference.
- (b) **Per diem expenses of staff person—** Each [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2)-elect (other than an incumbent [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) reelected to the ensuing Congress) who attends a caucus or conference called under such [section 29a(a) of this title](/usc/2/29a.md?p=a) shall be entitled to designate one staff person who shall in addition be reimbursed on a per diem or other basis for expenses incurred in accompanying the [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2)-elect at the time of such caucus or conference.
- (c) **Orientation programs for new Members—** With the approval of the majority leader (in the case of a [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) or [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2)-elect of the majority party) or the minority leader (in the case of a [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) or [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2)-elect of the minority party), subsections [(a)](#a) and [(b)](#b) shall apply with respect to the attendance of a [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) or [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2)-elect at a program conducted by the Committee on House Administration for the orientation of new [members](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2)[^1] in the same manner as such provisions apply to the attendance of the [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) or [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2)-elect at the organizational caucus or conference.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be capitalized.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–59, title II, § 201, July 25, 1975, 89 Stat. 282; Pub. L. 108–447, div. G, title I, § 107(b)(2), (c)(2), Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 3176.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 43b–2 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is based on section 1 of House Resolution No. 10, Ninety-fourth Congress, Jan. 14, 1975, which was enacted into permanent law by Pub. L. 94–59.

### Amendments

2004—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108–447, § 107(b)(2), substituted a period for “for a period not to exceed the shorter of the following—

“(i) the period beginning with the day before the designated date upon which such caucus or conference is to convene and ending with the day after the date of the final adjournment of such caucus or conference; or

“(ii) fourteen days.”

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 108–447, § 107(c)(2), added subsec. (c).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2004 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 108–447 applicable with respect to the One Hundred Tenth Congress and each succeeding Congress, see section 107(d) of Pub. L. 108–447, set out as a note under section 29a of this title.