I 
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 re-
ferred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the 
Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Rules, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Congressional Pay Re-
form Act of 2009’’. 
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SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF AUTOMATIC PAY ADJUSTMENTS 
FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. 
Section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act 
of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 601. (a)(1) Until otherwise provided under sec-
tion 225 of the Federal Salary Act of 1967 (2 U.S.C. 351 
and following) or any other provision of law, the annual 
rate of pay for— 
‘‘(A) each Senator, Member of the House of 
Representatives, and Delegate to the House of Rep-
resentatives, and the Resident Commissioner from 
Puerto Rico, 
‘‘(B) the President pro tempore of the Senate, 
the majority leader and the minority leader of the 
Senate, and the majority leader and the minority 
leader of the House of Representatives, and 
‘‘(C) the Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, 
shall be the rate payable for such position as of the date 
of the enactment of the Congressional Pay Reform Act 
of 2009. 
‘‘(2)(A)(i) Any bill or resolution, and any amendment 
to any bill or resolution, that provides for any increase 
in the rate of pay payable for any position referred to in 
paragraph (1) may be adopted by the House of Represent-
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atives or the Senate only by a vote recorded so as to reflect 
the vote of each Member voting. 
‘‘(ii) Nothing in clause (i) shall apply with respect 
to any pay adjustment under section 225 of the Federal 
Salary Act of 1967. 
‘‘(B) The provisions of subparagraph (A) are enacted 
by the Congress— 
‘‘(i) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate, re-
spectively, and as such they shall be considered as 
part of the rules of each House, respectively, and 
such rules shall supersede other rules only to the ex-
tent that they are inconsistent therewith; and 
‘‘(ii) with full recognition of the constitutional 
right of either House to change such rules (so far 
as relating to such House) at any time, in the same 
manner, and to the same extent as in the case of 
any other rule of such House.’’. 
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