Honor Your Oath Act

Bill: 116-hr-7180
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Murphy, Gregory [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2020-06-11
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Charitable contributions

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

House of Representatives

Legislative rules and procedure

Members of Congress
Latest action: action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and 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.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-06-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Honor Your Oath Act</b></p> <p>This bill reduces to $1 for the next Congress the salary of a Representative who, during an ongoing Congress, uses a designated proxy to cast a vote or record their presence in response to a quorum call.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7180 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 11, 2020 Mr. Murphy of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. Budd , Mr. Posey , and Mr. Bishop of North Carolina ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration , and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and 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 A BILL To reduce the annual rate of pay during a succeeding Congress of Members of the House of Representatives who cast a vote or record their presence in the House by proxy during a Congress, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Honor Your Oath Act . 2. Reduction in pay of Members who vote by proxy (a) Reduction during next Congress If on any day during a Congress an individual who serves as a Member of the House of Representatives uses a designated proxy to cast a vote in the House or to record the Member’s presence in the House in response to a quorum call, the annual rate of pay applicable under section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 ( 2 U.S.C. 4501 ) with respect to such individual for each pay period occurring during the next Congress during which the individual serves as a Member of the House of Representatives shall be equal to $1. (b) Sense of Congress regarding donation of salary to charity or use for deficit reduction It is the sense of Congress that any individual whose annual rate of pay is equal to $1 pursuant to subsection (a) should donate that pay to a charitable organization or return it to the Treasury for purposes of deficit reduction. (c) Treatment of Delegates as Members In this section, the term Member of the House of Representatives includes a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress.