[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1251 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1251

To permit Members of the House of Representatives to use their unspent 
        official allowances for reduction of the national debt.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 1993

    Mr. Bartlett of Maryland (for himself, Mr. Armey, Mr. Bachus of 
Alabama, Mr. Baker of California, Mr. Ballenger, Mr. Bliley, Mr. Blute, 
 Mr. Canady, Mr. Castle, Mr. Cox, Mr. Crane, Mr. Crapo, Mr. DeLay, Mr. 
   Dickey, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Dornan, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Everett, Mrs. 
  Fowler, Mr. Gilchrest, Mr. Gingrich, Mr. Goodlatte, Mr. Grams, Mr. 
   Greenwood, Mr. Hoekstra, Mr. Hoke, Mr. Horn, Mr. Huffington, Mr. 
 Hunter, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Istook, Mr. Kim, Mr. King, Mr. 
Kingston, Mr. Klug, Mr. Knollenberg, Mr. Lewis of California, Mr. Lewis 
of Florida, Mr. Manzullo, Mrs. Meyers of Kansas, Mr. Miller of Florida, 
 Mr. McCollum, Mr. McHugh, Mr. McInnis, Mr. McKeon, Mr. McMillan, Mr. 
   Mica, Ms. Molinari, Mr. Pombo, Ms. Pryce of Ohio, Mr. Quinn, Mr. 
 Roberts, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Royce, Mr. Saxton, Mr. Shays, Mr. Smith 
of Michigan, Mr. Spence, Mr. Thomas of California, Mr. Torkildsen, Mr. 
 Weldon, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Ms. English of Arizona, Mr. Gene Green of 
Texas, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Minge, and Mr. Penny) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
To permit Members of the House of Representatives to use their unspent 
        official allowances for reduction of the national debt.

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

SECTION 1. UNSPENT AMOUNTS FROM ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF 
              REPRESENTATIVES TO BE AVAILABLE FOR NATIONAL DEBT 
              REDUCTION.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, to the extent that an 
allowance of a Member of the House of Representatives is not otherwise 
used for a purpose specified by law or other authority, such allowance 
shall be available to the Member for reduction of the national debt.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    As used in this Act--
            (1) the term ``Member of the House of Representatives'' 
        means a Representative in, or a Delegate or Resident 
        Commissioner to, the Congress; and
            (2) the term ``allowance'' means, with respect to a Member 
        of the House of Representatives, the official expenses 
        allowance, the clerk hire allowance, the official mail 
        allowance, or any other official allowance of the Member.

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