Member of Congress Pay Sequestration and Fairness Act

Bill: 113-hr-1478
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2013-04-10
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations

Budget deficits and national debt

Budget process

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Members of Congress
Latest action: action_date: 2013-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-04-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Member of Congress Pay Sequestration and Fairness Act - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to include any item for the pay of Members of Congress within the definition of accounts subject to budget enforcement through sequestration.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1478 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 10, 2013 Ms. Norton (for herself, Mr. Langevin , and Ms. DelBene ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget A BILL To amend part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to include the pay of Members of Congress within the coverage of the provisions of such Act which provide for budget enforcement through sequestration.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Member of Congress Pay Sequestration and Fairness Act . 2. Inclusion of member pay among accounts subject to budget enforcement through sequestration (a) Inclusion Paragraph (11) of section 250(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 900(c) ) is amended by inserting before the period the following: , and such term includes any item for the pay of Senators or Representatives in, or Delegates or the Resident Commissioner to, the Congress . (b) Effective date The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to any sequestration occurring under part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 during the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress or any succeeding Congress.