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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 215 

To provide that rates of pay for Members of Congress shall not be subject 

to automatic adjustment; and to provide that any bill or resolution, 

and any amendment to any bill or resolution, which would increase 

Members’ pay may be adopted only by a recorded vote. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 6, 2009 

Mr. WILSON of South Carolina introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the 

Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To provide that rates of pay for Members of Congress shall 

not be subject to automatic adjustment; and to provide 

that any bill or resolution, and any amendment to any 

bill or resolution, which would increase Members’ pay 

may be adopted only by a recorded vote. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Congressional Pay Re5 form Act of 2009’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF AUTOMATIC PAY ADJUSTMENTS 

2 FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. 

3 Section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act 

4 of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31) is amended to read as follows: 

5 ‘‘SEC. 601. (a)(1) Until otherwise provided under sec6 tion 225 of the Federal Salary Act of 1967 (2 U.S.C. 351 

7 and following) or any other provision of law, the annual 

8 rate of pay for— 

9 ‘‘(A) each Senator, Member of the House of 

10 Representatives, and Delegate to the House of Rep11 resentatives, and the Resident Commissioner from 

12 Puerto Rico, 

13 ‘‘(B) the President pro tempore of the Senate, 

14 the majority leader and the minority leader of the 

15 Senate, and the majority leader and the minority 

16 leader of the House of Representatives, and 

17 ‘‘(C) the Speaker of the House of Representa18 tives, 

19 shall be the rate payable for such position as of the date 

20 of the enactment of the Congressional Pay Reform Act 

21 of 2009. 

22 ‘‘(2)(A)(i) Any bill or resolution, and any amendment 

23 to any bill or resolution, that provides for any increase 

24 in the rate of pay payable for any position referred to in 

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1 atives or the Senate only by a vote recorded so as to reflect 

2 the vote of each Member voting. 

3 ‘‘(ii) Nothing in clause (i) shall apply with respect 

4 to any pay adjustment under section 225 of the Federal 

5 Salary Act of 1967. 

6 ‘‘(B) The provisions of subparagraph (A) are enacted 

7 by the Congress— 

8 ‘‘(i) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 

9 the House of Representatives and the Senate, re10 spectively, and as such they shall be considered as 

11 part of the rules of each House, respectively, and 

12 such rules shall supersede other rules only to the ex13 tent that they are inconsistent therewith; and 

14 ‘‘(ii) with full recognition of the constitutional 

15 right of either House to change such rules (so far 

16 as relating to such House) at any time, in the same 

17 manner, and to the same extent as in the case of 

18 any other rule of such House.’’. 

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