---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 6621"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "6621"
heading: "Payment for telecommunications equipment and services; definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/6621"
units:
  - "Chapter 65 — Senate Officers and Administration"
  - "Subchapter III — Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of Senate"
  - "Part B — General Powers and Duties"
---

# §6621. Payment for telecommunications equipment and services; definitions


As used in sections 6621 to [6623](/usc/2/6623.md) of this title, the term—

- (1) “[Sergeant at Arms](/usc/2/6624.md?p=a-1)” means the [Sergeant at Arms](/usc/2/6624.md?p=a-1) and Doorkeeper of the United States Senate; and
- (2) “user” means any Senator, Officer of the Senate, Committee, office, or entity provided telephone equipment and services by the [Sergeant at Arms](/usc/2/6624.md?p=a-1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–123, § 1, Oct. 5, 1987, 101 Stat. 794.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 58a–1 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 100–123, § 4, Oct. 5, 1987, 101 Stat. 795, provided that: “This Act [enacting this section and sections 6622 and 6623 of this title] shall take effect on October 1, 1987.”