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+title: "2 U.S.C. § 608"
+description: "Lump-sum payments to enhance staff recruitment and to reward exceptional performance"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 2
+title_name: "THE CONGRESS"
+chapter_number: "17"
+chapter_name: "CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE"
+section: "608"
+citation: "2 U.S.C. § 608"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
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+---
+
+# 2 U.S.C. § 608 - Lump-sum payments to enhance staff recruitment and to reward exceptional performance
+
+## Text
+
+(a) The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall have the authority to make lump-sum payments to enhance staff recruitment and to reward exceptional performance by an employee or a group of employees.
+
+(b) Subsection (a) shall apply with respect to fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1999.
+
+(Pub. L. 106–57, title I, § 106, Sept. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 418.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Editorial Notes
+
+Codification Section was enacted as part of the Congressional Operations Appropriations Act, 2000, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2000, and not as part of title II of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 which comprises this chapter.