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Calendar No. 214 

113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 89 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

OCTOBER 9, 2013 

Received; read the first time 

OCTOBER 10, 2013 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 

JOINT RESOLUTION 

Making appropriations for the salaries and related expenses 

of certain Federal employees during a lapse in funding 

authority for fiscal year 2014, to establish a bicameral 

working group on deficit reduction and economic growth, 

and for other purposes. 

1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives

2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 TITLE I—FEDERAL WORKER PAY 

4 FAIRNESS ACT 

5 That the following sums are hereby appropriated, out of 

6 any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 

7 and out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, 


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1 and funds, for the salaries and related expenses of certain 

2 Federal employees for fiscal year 2014, and for other pur3 poses, namely: 

4 SEC. 101. Such amounts as may be necessary for 

5 paying salaries and related expenses of Federal employees 

6 excepted from the provisions of the Antideficiency Act (31 

7 U.S.C. 1341 et seq.) who work during the period begin8 ning October 1, 2013, and ending December 15, 2013, 

9 when there is otherwise no funding authority for such sal10 aries and related expenses: Provided, That not later than 

11 December 20, 2013, the Director of the Office of Manage12 ment and Budget shall provide to the Committees on Ap13 propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen14 ate a report specifying the use of funds made available 

15 to the Executive Branch by this joint resolution. 

16 SEC. 102. Expenditures made pursuant to this joint 

17 resolution shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, 

18 fund, or authorization whenever a bill in which such appli19 cable appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained is 

20 enacted into law. 

21 SEC. 103. It is the sense of Congress that this joint 

22 resolution may also be referred to as the ‘‘Federal Worker 

23 Pay Fairness Act’’. 

24 This title may be cited as the ‘‘Excepted Employees’ 

25 Pay Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014’’. 


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1 TITLE II—DEFICIT REDUCTION 

2 AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 

3 WORKING GROUP ACT 

4 SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE. 

5 This title may be cited as the ‘‘Deficit Reduction and 

6 Economic Growth Working Group Act of 2013’’. 

7 SEC. 202. BICAMERAL WORKING GROUP ON DEFICIT RE8 DUCTION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH. 

9 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established a 

10 bicameral working group to be known as the ‘‘Bicameral 

11 Working Group on Deficit Reduction and Economic 

12 Growth’’ (hereinafter referred to as the ‘‘working group’’). 

13 (b) PURPOSE.—The working group shall recommend 

14 to the House of Representatives and the Senate— 

15 (1) overall levels of discretionary spending, in16 cluding for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 

17 2014; 

18 (2) changes in the statutory limit on the public 

19 debt; and 

20 (3) reforms in direct spending programs. 

21 (c) MEMBERSHIP.— 

22 (1) The working group shall be comprised of 20 

23 members to be appointed as follows: 

24 (A) The Speaker shall appoint 10 Members 

25 of the House of Representatives, of which one 


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1 shall be designated as House co-chair and 4 

2 shall be on the recommendation of the minority 

3 leader of the House of Representatives. 

4 (B) The majority leader of the Senate shall 

5 appoint 10 Senators, of which one shall be des6 ignated as Senate co-chair and 4 shall be on the 

7 recommendation of the minority leader of the 

8 Senate. 

9 (2) Any vacancy occurring in the membership 

10 of the working group shall be filled in the same 

11 manner as the original designation was made. 

12 (3) Each appointment under this subsection 

13 shall be made not later than one calendar day after 

14 enactment of this Act. 

15 (d) MEETINGS.—The members of the working group 

16 shall meet not later than one calendar day after their ap17 pointment pursuant to subsection (c) and shall meet on 

18 each calendar day thereafter unless both co-chairs jointly 

19 determine that there is good cause to dispense with such 

20 meeting. 

21 (e) ADOPTION OF RECOMMENDATIONS.—The work22 ing group may not report any recommendation unless it 

23 receives the support of a majority of the members ap24 pointed by both the Speaker of the House of Representa25 tives and the majority leader of the Senate. 


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1 (f) REPORT.— 

2 (1) The working group shall report its rec3 ommendations, including any legislative language re4 quired to implement those recommendations, to the 

5 House of Representatives and the Senate within 3 

6 calendar days after their adoption. 

7 (2) The report shall be referred in the House 

8 of Representatives by the Speaker in accordance 

9 with clause 2 of rule XIV. 

10 (3) The report shall include any supplemental, 

11 minority, or additional views submitted to the co12 chairs prior to its transmission pursuant to para13 graph (1). 

14 (g) TERMINATION.—The working group shall termi15 nate immediately after transmission of the report under 

16 subsection (f). 

17 (h) RULEMAKING.—The provisions of this section are 

18 enacted by Congress— 

19 (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 

20 the House of Representatives and the Senate, re21 spectively, and as such they shall be considered as 

22 part of the rules of each House, respectively, or of 

23 that House to which they specifically apply, and 

24 such rules shall supercede other rules only to the ex25 tent that they are inconsistent therewith; and 


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1 (2) with full recognition of the constitutional 

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

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

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

5 any other rule of such House. 

Passed the House of Representatives October 8, 

2013. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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Calendar No. 214 

113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 89 

JOINT RESOLUTION 

Making appropriations for the salaries and related 

purposes. reduction and economic growth, and for other to establish a bicameral working group on deficit lapse in funding authority for fiscal year 2014, expenses of certain Federal employees during a 

OCTOBER 10, 2013 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 


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