[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 161 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 161

   To limit fees paid to outside attorneys who represent the Federal 
                              Government.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

  Mr. Duncan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Government Operations

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                                 A BILL


 
   To limit fees paid to outside attorneys who represent the Federal 
                              Government.

    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 ``Outside Counsel Fee Limitation Act 
of 1991''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATIONS ON ATTORNEY FEES.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the following 
limitations shall apply with respect to fees, paid from appropriated 
sums, to attorneys who are not Federal employees but who represent the 
United States (including any Federal agency or Federal official acting 
in official capacity):
            (1) No fee shall exceed the rate of $125 per hour of work.
            (2) The total of such fees paid to a single attorney or law 
        firm in a single year shall not exceed $1,000,000.

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