Title: Accountability for Congressional Pay Act
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
Accountability for Congressional Pay Act
This bill amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to reduce the pay of Members of Congress for any year following a fiscal year in which the Office of Management and Budget determined that there was a federal budget deficit.
During the next calendar year that begins after a fiscal year in which there was a budget deficit: (1) congressional salaries must be reduced by the percentage by which outlays exceeded revenues for that fiscal year, except that the reduction may not exceed 15%; and (2) a cost-of-living adjustment is prohibited.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2665 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2665

To reduce the pay of Members of Congress in any year following a fiscal 
           year for which there was a Federal budget deficit.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 25, 2017

Mr. Bacon (for himself, Mr. Bergman, and Mr. Gallagher) introduced the 
     following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House 
   Administration, 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 jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To reduce the pay of Members of Congress in any year following a fiscal 
           year for which there was a Federal budget deficit.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Accountability for Congressional Pay 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN PAY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS IN RESPONSE TO BUDGET 
              DEFICIT.

    (a) Reduction.--Section 601(a)(2) of the Legislative Reorganization 
Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 4501(2)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(C)(i) If, as determined by the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget, total budget outlays of the Government for a 
fiscal year exceed total revenues of the Government for such fiscal 
year--
            ``(I) for all pay periods occurring during the next 
        calendar year which begins after that fiscal year, each annual 
        rate of pay referred to in paragraph (1) shall be reduced by 
        the percentage by which outlays exceeded revenues for that 
        fiscal year (except that such reduction may not exceed 15 
        percent); and
            ``(II) no adjustment may be made under subparagraph (A) in 
        any such rate of pay during that next calendar year.
    ``(ii) If an individual did not hold a position described in 
paragraph (1) during a fiscal year for which total budget outlays of 
the Government exceeded total revenues of the Government (as described 
in clause (i)), clause (i) shall not apply to the annual rate of pay 
for such individual during the next calendar year.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 601(a)(2)(A) of such Act (2 
U.S.C. 4501(2)(A)) is amended by striking ``Subject to subparagraph 
(B),'' and inserting ``Subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C),''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply with respect to fiscal year 2018 and each succeeding fiscal year.
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