States that each Member of the House of Representatives and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico and the Delegates from the District of Columbia, Guam, and the Virgin Islands are authorized to hire either one additional employee for two weeks in any year, or two additional employees for one week, to be known as John W. McCormack congressional interns in honor of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives. Provides that each such intern shall serve either within the District of Columbia or within the district which the employing Member or Commissioner or Delegate represents. Stipulates that each Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner shall have available annually for payment of compensation to such interns a gross allowance of $200, to be payable to each such intern at a rate not to exceed $100 per week, out of the contingent fund of the House. Requires each such intern to be sixty years of age or older and a resident of the district which the employing Member, Commissioner, or Delegate represents.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on House Administration.
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