---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 6312"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "6312"
heading: "Clerks to Senators-elect"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/6312"
units:
  - "Chapter 63 — Senate Members"
  - "Subchapter II — Employees, Expenses, and Allowances"
---

# §6312. Clerks to Senators-elect


A Senator entitled to receive his own salary may appoint the usual clerical assistants allowed Senators.


## Source credit

(Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 177, § 1, 28 Stat. 766; Feb. 20, 1923, ch. 98, 42 Stat. 1266; June 19, 1934, ch. 648, title I, § 1, 48 Stat. 1022.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 67 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

1934—Act June 19, 1934, struck out provisions as to maximum of four clerical assistants and as to their compensation.