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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 391

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

to adjustment under the Federal Salary Act of 1967 or subject to

any other automatic adjustment.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JANUARY 5, 1993

Mr. SOLOMON introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the

Committees on Post Office and Civil Service and House Administration

A BILL

To provide that rates of pay for Members of Congress shall

not be subject to adjustment under the Federal Salary

Act of 1967 or subject to any other automatic adjustment.

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

3 That this Act may be cited as the ‘‘Congressional Salary

4 Act of 1989’’.

5 SEC. 2. (a) Section 225(i) of the Federal Salary Act

6 of 1967 (2 U.S.C. 359) is amended by adding at the end

7 thereof the following new paragraph:
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1 ‘‘(3) Any part of the recommendations of the Presi2 dent which relate to offices and positions within the pur3 view of subparagraph (A) of subsection (f) of this section

4 shall be of an advisory nature only and, unless otherwise

5 provided by law, shall not take effect under this sub6 section.’’.

7 (b) Section 225(i)(1) of the Federal Salary Act of

8 1967 (2 U.S.C. 359(1)) is amended by inserting ‘‘(other

9 than recommendations with respect to those offices and

10 positions within the purview of subparagraph (A) of sub11 section (f) of this section)’’ before ‘‘shall be effective’’.

12 (c) Section 225(f) of the Federal Salary Act of 1967

13 (2 U.S.C. 356) is amended—

14 (1) by striking out ‘‘the Vice President of the

15 United States,’’ in subparagraph (A); and

16 (2) by inserting ‘‘the Vice President of the

17 United States and’’ before ‘‘offices’’ in subparagraph

18 (D).

19 SEC. 3. Section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganiza20 tion Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31(a)) is amended to read as

21 follows:

22 ‘‘SEC. 601. (a)(1) Until otherwise provided by law,

23 the annual rate of pay for—

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

25 Representatives, and Delegate to the House of Rep-
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1 resentatives, and the Resident Commissioner from

2 Puerto Rico,

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

4 the majority leader and the minority leader of the

5 Senate, and the majority leader and the minority

6 leader of the House of Representatives, and

7 ‘‘(C) the Speaker of the House of Representa8 tives,

9 shall be the rate payable for such positions, respectively,

10 on the date of the enactment of the Congressional Salary

11 Act of 1989.

12 ‘‘(2) Any law increasing any rate of pay referred to

13 in paragraph (1) shall not take effect before the first day

14 of the Congress following the Congress during which such

15 law is enacted. For purposes of this paragraph, the period,

16 in any even-numbered calendar year occurring during any

17 Congress, which begins on the Tuesday following the first

18 Monday of November of such year and which ends at noon

19 on the following January third shall be considered as oc20 curring during the first session of the following Con21 gress.’’.

22 SEC. 4. This Act; and the amendments made by this

23 Act; shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.

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