[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 391 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 391

   To provide that rates of pay for Members of Congress shall not be 
 subject to adjustment under the Federal Salary Act of 1967 or subject 
                   to any other automatic adjustment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

 Mr. Solomon introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly 
     to the Committees on Post Office and Civil Service and House 
                             Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide that rates of pay for Members of Congress shall not be 
 subject to adjustment under the Federal Salary Act of 1967 or subject 
                   to any other automatic adjustment.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be 
cited as the ``Congressional Salary Act of 1989''.
    Sec. 2. (a) Section 225(i) of the Federal Salary Act of 1967 (2 
U.S.C. 359) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new 
paragraph:
    ``(3) Any part of the recommendations of the President which relate 
to offices and positions within the purview of subparagraph (A) of 
subsection (f) of this section shall be of an advisory nature only and, 
unless otherwise provided by law, shall not take effect under this 
subsection.''.
    (b) Section 225(i)(1) of the Federal Salary Act of 1967 (2 U.S.C. 
359(1)) is amended by inserting ``(other than recommendations with 
respect to those offices and positions within the purview of 
subparagraph (A) of subsection (f) of this section)'' before ``shall be 
effective''.
    (c) Section 225(f) of the Federal Salary Act of 1967 (2 U.S.C. 356) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking out ``the Vice President of the United 
        States,'' in subparagraph (A); and
            (2) by inserting ``the Vice President of the United States 
        and'' before ``offices'' in subparagraph (D).
    Sec. 3. Section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 
1946 (2 U.S.C. 31(a)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``Sec. 601. (a)(1) Until otherwise provided by law, the annual rate 
of pay for--
            ``(A) each Senator, Member of the House of Representatives, 
        and Delegate to the House of Representatives, and the Resident 
        Commissioner from Puerto Rico,
            ``(B) the President pro tempore of the Senate, the majority 
        leader and the minority leader of the Senate, and the majority 
        leader and the minority leader of the House of Representatives, 
        and
            ``(C) the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
shall be the rate payable for such positions, respectively, on the date 
of the enactment of the Congressional Salary Act of 1989.
    ``(2) Any law increasing any rate of pay referred to in paragraph 
(1) shall not take effect before the first day of the Congress 
following the Congress during which such law is enacted. For purposes 
of this paragraph, the period, in any even-numbered calendar year 
occurring during any Congress, which begins on the Tuesday following 
the first Monday of November of such year and which ends at noon on the 
following January third shall be considered as occurring during the 
first session of the following Congress.''.
    Sec. 4. This Act; and the amendments made by this Act; shall take 
effect on the date of enactment of this Act.

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