---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 6538"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "6538"
heading: "Employment of additional administrative assistants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/6538"
units:
  - "Chapter 65 — Senate Officers and Administration"
  - "Subchapter II — Secretary of the Senate"
  - "Part A — Organization and Personnel"
---

# §6538. Employment of additional administrative assistants


The Secretary of the Senate is authorized to employ such administrative assistants as may be necessary in order to carry out the provisions of this Act under the jurisdiction of the Secretary.


## Source credit

(Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 753, title II, § 244, 60 Stat. 839; Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 204(18), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1732.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, means act Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 753, 60 Stat. 812, known as the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

### Codification

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

### Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “is” for “and the Clerk of the House are” and “the jurisdiction of the Secretary” for “their respective jurisdictions”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Aug. 2, 1946, see section 245 of act Aug. 2, 1946, set out as a note under section 4301 of this title.