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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 30 

To prevent the 2013 pay adjustment for persons holding senior positions 

in the Federal Government from being made and to prevent pay adjustments for Members of Congress in any year there is a budget deficit. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 22 (legislative day, JANUARY 3), 2013 

Ms. AYOTTE introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

A BILL 

To prevent the 2013 pay adjustment for persons holding 

senior positions in the Federal Government from being 

made and to prevent pay adjustments for Members of 

Congress in any year there is a budget deficit. 

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 

5 Freeze Act of 2013’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF 2013 PAY ADJUSTMENT. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 147(b) of the Continuing 

3 Appropriations Act, 2011 (5 U.S.C. 5303 note) is amend4 ed— 

5 (1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para6 graph (3); and 

7 (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol8 lowing: 

9 ‘‘(2)(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 

10 except as provided in subsection (e), for an individual de11 scribed in subparagraph (B) no statutory pay adjustment 

12 which (but for this subsection) would otherwise take effect 

13 during the period beginning on the date specified in sec14 tion 106(3) of the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 

15 2013 (Public Law 112–175; 126 Stat. 1315), and ending 

16 on December 31, 2013, shall be made. 

17 ‘‘(B) An individual described in this subparagraph 

18 is— 

19 ‘‘(i) an employee— 

20 ‘‘(I) in a Senior Executive Service position 

21 (as defined in section 3132(a) of title 5, United 

22 States Code); or 

23 ‘‘(II) in a position on an Executive Sched24 ule described in section 5312, 5313, 5314, 

25 5315, or 5316 of title 5, United States Code 

26 (including a position placed on level IV or V of 


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1 the Executive Schedule under section 5317 of 

2 title 5, United States Code); and 

3 ‘‘(ii) an individual serving as Vice President or 

4 a Member of Congress.’’. 

5 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO DELAYED AD6 JUSTMENT.—Section 114(b) of the Continuing Appropria7 tions Resolution, 2013 (Public Law 112–175; 126 Stat. 

8 1316) is amended— 

9 (1) by inserting ‘‘and except as provided in 

10 paragraph (2) of section 147(b) of the Continuing 

11 Appropriations Act, 2011 (5 U.S.C. 5303 note) (as 

12 amended by the Congressional Pay Freeze Act of 

13 2013),’’ after ‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision 

14 of law,’’; and 

15 (2) by striking ‘‘section 147(b)(2)’’ and insert16 ing ‘‘section 147(b)’’. 

17 SEC. 3. NO COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENTS FOR MEMBERS 

18 OF CONGRESS. 

19 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no ad20 justment shall be made under section 601(a) of the Legis21 lative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31) (relating 

22 to cost-of-living adjustments for Members of Congress) for 

23 any fiscal year in which the Congressional Budget Office 

24 determines there is a Federal budget deficit. 

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