[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 772 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 772

To provide that annual pay adjustments for Members of Congress may not 
   exceed cost-of-living increases in benefits under title II of the 
                          Social Security Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 3, 1993

    Mr. Goss (for himself, Mr. Dreier and Mr. Shaw) introduced the 
     following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House 
                             Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that annual pay adjustments for Members of Congress may not 
   exceed cost-of-living increases in benefits under title II of the 
                          Social Security Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 601(a) of 
the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(3)(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, 
rates of pay for positions referred to in paragraph (1) may not be 
increased, under paragraph (2), in excess of the maximum percentage 
increase allowable in any year.
    ``(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the maximum percentage 
increase allowable under paragraph (2) in any year is the percentage 
equal to the percentage by which benefits under title II of the Social 
Security Act were increased during the 1-year period preceding the 
start of the calendar year involved, either under section 215(i) of 
such Act or pursuant to a law providing a general benefit increase 
under such title.''.

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