---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 6596"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "6596"
heading: "Employment of personnel by Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of Senate at daily rates of compensation; authorization; limitation on amount of compensation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/6596"
units:
  - "Chapter 65 — Senate Officers and Administration"
  - "Subchapter III — Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of Senate"
  - "Part A — Organization and Personnel"
---

# §6596. Employment of personnel by Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of Senate at daily rates of compensation; authorization; limitation on amount of compensation


The [Sergeant at Arms](/usc/2/6624.md?p=a-1) and Doorkeeper of the Senate, in carrying out the duties of his office, is authorized to employ personnel at daily rates of compensation; no individual so employed shall be paid at a daily rate of compensation which is in excess of the per diem equivalent of the highest gross rate of annual compensation which may be paid to [employees](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) of a standing committee of the Senate; and payments under authority of this section shall be made from the account, within the contingent fund of the Senate, for the “[Sergeant at Arms](/usc/2/6624.md?p=a-1) and Doorkeeper of the Senate”, upon vouchers approved by the [Sergeant at Arms](/usc/2/6624.md?p=a-1) and Doorkeeper of the Senate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–367, title I, § 6, July 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 475.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 61f–9 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is from the Congressional Operations Appropriation Act, 1985, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1985.