---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 5561"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "5561"
heading: "Reporters for House of Representatives"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/5561"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — House of Representatives Officers and Administration"
  - "Subchapter IV — Clerk"
---

# §5561. Reporters for House of Representatives


No person shall be employed as a reporter for the House of Representatives without the approval of the Speaker.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 54.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 84a of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

R.S. § 54 derived from act Apr. 2, 1872, ch. 79, § 3, 17 Stat. 47.