(f) TERMS.—Each member of the Commission in-
cluding the Chairman shall serve until the termination of
the Commission.
(g) MEETINGS.—
(1) INITIAL
MEETING.—Not later than 180
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Commission shall conduct its first meeting. The first
nonadministrative business of the Commission shall
be to establish criteria for evaluating whether a pay-
ment, benefit, service, or tax advantage is an inequi-
table Federal payment for purposes of this Act.
(2) OPEN
MEETINGS.—Each meeting of the
Commission shall be open to the public. In cases
where classified information, trade secrets, or per-
sonnel matters are discussed, the Chairman may
close the meeting. All proceedings, information, and
deliberations of the Commission shall be available,
upon request, to the chairman and ranking member
of the relevant committees of Congress.
(h) VACANCIES.—A vacancy on the Commission—
(1) shall be filled in the same manner as the
original appointment not later than 30 days after
the Commission is given notice of the vacancy, and
(2) shall not affect the power of the remaining
members to execute the duties of the Commission.
(i) PAY AND TRAVEL EXPENSES.—
(1) PAY.—Notwithstanding section 7 of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.),
each Commissioner, other than the Chairman, shall
be paid at a rate equal to the daily equivalent of the
minimum annual rate of basic pay for level IV of the
Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title 5,
United States Code, for each day (including travel
time) during which the member is engaged in the ac-
tual performance of duties vested in the Commis-
sion.
(2) CHAIRMAN.—Notwithstanding section 7 of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C.
App.), the Chairman shall be paid for each day re-
ferred to in paragraph (1) at a rate equal to the
daily payment of the minimum annual rate of basic
pay payable for level III of the Executive Schedule
under section 5314 of title 5, United States Code.
(3) TRAVEL EXPENSES.—Members shall receive
travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsist-
ence, in accordance with section 5702 and 5703 of
title 5, United States Code.
(j) DIRECTOR OF STAFF.—
(1) QUALIFICATIONS.—The Chairman shall ap-
point a Director who has not served in any of the
entities or industries that the Commission intends
to review during the 12 months preceding the date
of such appointment.
(2) PAY.—Notwithstanding section 7 of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.),
the Director shall be paid at the rate of basic pay
payable for level IV of the Executive Schedule under
section 5315 of title 5, United States Code.
(3) REPORTS.—On administrative and per-
sonnel matters, the Director shall submit periodic
reports to the Chairman of the Commission and the
chairman and ranking member of the Committee on
Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Com-
mittee on Government Reform and Oversight of the
House of the Representatives.
(k) STAFF.—
(1) ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL.—Subject to para-
graphs (2) and (4), the Director, with the approval
of the Commission, may appoint and fix the pay of
additional personnel.
(2) APPOINTMENTS.—The Director may make
such appointments without regard to the provisions
of title 5, United States Code, governing appoint-
ments in the competitive service, and any personnel
so appointed may be paid without regard to the pro-
visions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter
53 of that title relating to classification and General
Schedule pay rates.
(3) DETAILEES.—Upon the request of the Di-
rector, the head of any Federal department or agen-
cy may detail any of the personnel of that depart-
ment or agency to the Commission to assist the
Commission in accordance with an agreement en-
tered into with the Commission.
(4) 
RESTRICTIONS
ON
PERSONNEL
AND
DETAILEES.—The following restrictions shall apply
to personnel and detailees of the Commission:
(A) PERSONNEL.—No more than one-third
of the personnel detailed to the Commission
may be on detail from Federal agencies that
deal directly or indirectly with the Federal pay-
ments the Commission intends to review.
(B) ANALYSTS.—No more than one-fifth of
the professional analysts of the Commission
may be persons detailed from a Federal agency
that deals directly or indirectly with the Federal
payments the Commission intends to review.
(C) LEAD ANALYST.—No person detailed
from a Federal agency to the Commission may
be assigned as the lead professional analyst
with respect to an entity or industry the Com-
mission intends to review if the person has been
involved in regulatory or policy-making deci-
sions affecting any such entity or industry in
the 12 months preceding such assignment.
(D) DETAILEE.—A person may not be de-
tailed from a Federal agency to the Commission
if, within 12 months before the detail is to
begin, that person participated personally and
substantially in any matter within that par-
ticular agency concerning the preparation of
recommendations under this Act.
(E) FEDERAL OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE.—
No member of a Federal agency, and no officer
or employee of a Federal agency, may—
(i) prepare any report concerning the
effectiveness, fitness, or efficiency of the
performance on the staff of the Commis-
sion of any person detailed from a Federal
agency to that staff;
(ii) review the preparation of such re-
port; or
(iii) approve or disapprove such a re-
port.
(F) LIMITATION ON STAFF SIZE.—
(i) Subject to clause (ii), there may
not be more than 50 persons (including
any detailees) on the staff at any time.
(ii) The Commission may increase
personnel in excess of the limitation under
clause (i), 15 days after submitting notifi-
cation of such increase to the Committee
on Governmental Affairs of the Senate and
the Committee on Government Reform and
Oversight of the House of Representatives.
(G) LIMITATION ON FEDERAL OFFICER.—
No member of a Federal agency and no em-
ployee of a Federal agency may serve as a Com-
missioner or receive additional compensation by
reason of being a member of the staff.
(5) ASSISTANCE.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Comptroller Gen-
eral of the United States may provide assist-
ance, including the detailing of employees, to
the Commission in accordance with an agree-
ment entered into with the Commission.
(B) 
CONSULTATION.—The 
Commission
and the Comptroller General of the United
States shall consult with the Committee on
Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 120
days before the submission of the report under
paragraph (1), the Commission shall submit the
most recent version of such report to Comp-
troller General of the United States.
(B) ANALYSIS
BY
COMPTROLLER
GEN-
ERAL.—Not later than 60 days after receiving
the version of the report referred to in subpara-
graph (A), the Comptroller General of the
United States shall submit to the Commission
a report containing a detailed analysis of such
version of the report.
(b) SUBMISSION
OF RECOMMENDATIONS
TO
THE
SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—
(1) SUBMISSION
TO
CONGRESS.—The rec-
ommendations submitted to the Congress under sub-
section (a) shall be submitted to the Senate and the
House of Representatives on the same day, and shall
be delivered to the Secretary of the Senate if the
Senate is not in session, and to the Clerk of the
House of the Representatives if the House is not in
session.
(2) FEDERAL
REGISTER.—Any recommenda-
tions and accompanying information submitted
under subsection (a) shall be printed in the first
issue of the Federal Register after such submission.
(c) INTRODUCTION.—
(1) DATE OF INTRODUCTION.—Not later than
75 days after the date the report under subsection
(a) is submitted to the Congress, the majority leader
of the Senate or his designee, and the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, or his designee, shall
introduce a bill (or bills as provided under para-
graph (2)) that implements the recommendations
submitted under subsection (a).
(2) MULTIPLE BILLS.—The majority leader of
the Senate, or his designee, or the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, or his designee, shall in-
troduce a bill or separate bills ensuring that all such
recommendations will be implemented.
(d) COMMITTEE REFERRAL AND ACTION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Any committee to
which a bill or bills introduced under subsection
(c) is referred shall report such bill no later
than 120 calendar days after the date of refer-
ral. No amendment during committee consider-
ation of a bill or bills introduced under sub-
section (c) shall be in order unless that amend-
ment is confined to terminating or reducing an
inequitable Federal payment as defined in sec-
tion 4 of this Act. Any such reported bill shall
be referred to the Committee on Governmental
Affairs of the Senate or the Committee on Gov-
ernment Reform and Oversight of the House of
Representatives, as applicable.
(B) COMMITTEES ON FINANCE AND WAYS
AND MEANS.—
(i) IN GENERAL.—Any bill referred to
the Committee on Finance or the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means that contains
revenue increases may be amended to in-
clude reductions in revenues in the form of
tax cuts in an amount up to the amount
of the revenue increases.
(ii) SCORECARD.—If the bill referred
to in clause (i) is enacted into law, any
amount of revenue reductions not made by
the bill as provided in clause (i) shall be
credited to the pay-as-you-go scorecard
under section 252 of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985 and may only be offset by legislation
reducing revenues.
(2) DISCHARGE.—If a committee does not re-
port a bill within the 120-day period as provided
under paragraph (1), such bill shall be discharged
from the committee and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Affairs of the Senate or the Com-
mittee on Government Reform and Oversight of the
House of Representatives, as applicable.
(3) REPORT TO FLOOR; CONSOLIDATION.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—No later than the first
day the Senate or the House of Representatives
(as applicable) is in session following 10 cal-
endar days in session after the end of the 120-
day period described under paragraphs (1) and
(2), the Committee on Governmental Affairs of
the Senate and the Committee on Government
Reform and Oversight of the House of Rep-
resentatives, as applicable, shall—
(i) consolidate all bills referred under
paragraphs (1) and (2) into a single bill
(without substantive amendment) and re-
port such bill to the Senate or the House
of Representatives; or
(ii) if only 1 bill is referred under
paragraph (1) or (2), report such bill