I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2677 
To reduce the annual rate of compensation of Members of Congress by 
a percentage equal to the effective reduction in the average annual 
rate of pay of Federal employees who were subject to sequestration- 
related furloughs during the two most recent fiscal years. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 11, 2013 
Mr. COFFMAN (for himself, Mr. O’ROURKE, Mr. KILMER, Mr. LOEBSACK, Mr. 
COOPER, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, and Ms. DELBENE) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Admin-
istration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To reduce the annual rate of compensation of Members of 
Congress by a percentage equal to the effective reduction 
in the average annual rate of pay of Federal employees 
who were subject to sequestration-related furloughs dur-
ing the two most recent fiscal years. 
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 ‘‘Sequestration Tied to 
Member Pay (STOMP) Act of 2013’’. 
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SEC. 2. EQUIVALENT REDUCTION IN PAY OF MEMBERS OF 
CONGRESS IF FEDERAL EMPLOYEE PAY IS 
REDUCED BY REASON OF SEQUESTRATION. 
(a) REDUCTION IN PAY.—Section 601(a) of the Leg-
islative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31) is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘The annual 
rate’’ and inserting ‘‘Subject to paragraph (3), the 
annual rate’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(3)(A) If, during either of the two most recent fiscal 
years ending before a Congress, the effective annual rate 
of pay of employees of the Federal Government is reduced 
as a result of a sequestration-related furlough, the annual 
rate of pay otherwise applicable under paragraph (1) dur-
ing the Congress shall be reduced by a percentage equal 
to the average percentage reduction in such effective an-
nual rate of pay during those 2 fiscal years for all employ-
ees of the Federal Government whose pay was reduced as 
a result of such a furlough. 
‘‘(B) Not later than December 15 of each even-num-
bered year, the Director of the Office of Personnel Man-
agement shall determine and publish the percentage (if 
any) by which the annual rate of pay otherwise applicable 
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under paragraph (1) shall be reduced during the next Con-
gress pursuant to this paragraph. 
‘‘(C) In this paragraph, the term ‘employees of the 
Federal Government’ means employees described in sec-
tion 2105 of title 5, United States Code. 
‘‘(D) In this paragraph, the term ‘sequestration-re-
lated furlough’ means, with respect to an employee of the 
Federal Government, the placing of the employee in a tem-
porary status without duties and pay because of a lack 
of funds which results from— 
‘‘(i) any reduction made with respect to a fiscal 
year pursuant to a sequestration order issued under 
section 254 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (or, in the case of fiscal 
year 2013, under section 251A of such Act); or 
‘‘(ii) the imposition with respect to a fiscal year 
of the discretionary spending limits set forth in sec-
tion 251(c) of such Act (as modified by section 251A 
of such Act).’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to the One Hun-
dred Fourteenth Congress and each succeeding Congress. 
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