---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 6136"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "6136"
heading: "Transfer of funds from representation allowance of Majority and Minority Leaders of Senate to expense allowance; availability; definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/6136"
units:
  - "Chapter 61 — Senate Leadership"
  - "Subchapter III — Majority and Minority Leaders and Whips"
---

# §6136. Transfer of funds from representation allowance of Majority and Minority Leaders of Senate to expense allowance; availability; definitions

- (a) The Secretary of the Senate shall, upon the written request of the Majority or Minority [Leader](#b-1) of the Senate, transfer from any available funds in such [Leader](#b-1)’s allotment in the [Leader](#b-1)’s Representation Allowance (as defined in [subsection (b)(1)](#b-1)) for any fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985) to such [Leader](#b-1)’s Expense Allowance (as defined in [subsection (b)(2)](#b-2)) to such year such amount as is specified in the request. Any funds so transferred for any fiscal year at the request of either such [Leader](#b-1) shall be available to such [Leader](#b-1) for such year for the same purposes as, and in like manner and subject to the same conditions as, are other funds which are available to him for such year as his expense allowance as Majority or Minority [Leader](#b-1).
- (b)
  - (1) The term “Leader’s Representation Allowance” means the Representation Allowance Account for the Majority and Minority Leaders established by [section 6135 of this title](/usc/2/6135.md).
  - (2) The term “[Leader](#b-1)’s Expense Allowance”, when used in reference to the Majority or Minority [Leader](#b-1) of the Senate, refers to the moneys available, for any fiscal year, to such [Leader](#b-1) as an expense allowance and the appropriation account from which such moneys are funded.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–71, title I, § 1, July 11, 1987, 101 Stat. 422.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 31a–2a of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is from the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1987.