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B-197970 1 (1980-04-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjew0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COM PTROLLR GENtrAL OF T1.: UNITED$TA'l%8 B-197970 April 1, 1980 Th.- Honorable Carl D. Perkins Chairman, Corrmnitt e on En t' ',k UlvYt labla to ptabl. r ni . U' and Labor -L House of Representotives Dear Mr. Chairman: You recently requested our opinion conaerning your authority to approve payment of a witness' travel and per diem expenses where the Chairman of the SLbcounittee on Labor Management Relatios of the Comm ttee on Education and Labor demanded the presence of! the witness, You indicate thaI for many years it has been the policy of the Committee on Education aud Labor not to pay witness expenses to attend hearings unless the witess were subpoenaed. Specifically, you wish to know if payment of expenses to the witness in these circumstancen would lie. consistent with the Rulen of the House of Representatives and with the laws governing this matter. You enclosed a copy of a letter to the witness, dated February 21, 1980, which stated that-- This is to confirm that you have been requested to appear as a witness* * ** AR has been stated to you, failure to appear at the hearings will rdsult in a subpoena being issued requiring you to appenr before the Subcommittee at a later date* * A The Rules of the House .)? Representatives for che Ninety-Sixth Congreas (H|.R. Doec. No. 95-403, 95th Cong., 2d Sess. (1979)) provide that the Rules of the House are the rules of its committees and sibconrmitteos so far as applicable (Rule XT ,. l(n)(1)). Rule XXXV, Pay of Witnesses, is as follows: Thie rule fur paying witnesses to appear before t lIouseor any of its cocmittes shall be as follows: For each day a witness shell attend, the O3nme per diem rate as established, authorized, and regulated by the Committee on House Administrotion for Members and employees of the House, and actual expenses of travel. ir coming to or going from the place of examInation; but no per diem shall be * paid when a witness has been summoned at the place of examinatIon. (Emphasis supplied.). \ ,. , -- --,

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