[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 885 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 885

     Amending the Rules of the House to limit the availability of 
 appropriations for salaries and expenses of the House to one year and 
    to require certain excess allowance amounts be returned to the 
                               Treasury.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 16, 1993

   Mr. Camp introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                           Committee on Rules

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                                 A BILL


 
     Amending the Rules of the House to limit the availability of 
 appropriations for salaries and expenses of the House to one year and 
    to require certain excess allowance amounts be returned to the 
                               Treasury.

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

SECTION 1. ONE-YEAR LIMITATION ON APPROPRIATIONS FOR SALARIES AND 
              EXPENSES OF THE HOUSE.

    Rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by 
adding at the end of the following new clause:
    ``8. It shall be in order to consider any measure appropriating 
amounts for salaries and expenses of the House unless measure prohibits 
availability of any such amount for obligation for that purpose after 
the end of the fiscal year for which the amount is appropriated.''.

SEC. 2. UNUSED AMOUNTS FROM THE CLERK HIRE, OFFICIAL EXPENSES, AND MAIL 
              ALLOWANCES TO BE RETURNED TO THE TREASURY.

    The Rules of the House of Representatives are amended by adding at 
the end the following:

                              ``Rule LII.

        ``disposition of unused amounts from certain allowances.

    ``Amounts made available to a Member of the House of 
Representatives under Clerk Hire Allowance, the Official Expenses 
Allowance, and the Official Mail Allowance may be used only with 
respect to the calendar year or session of Congress, as the case may 
be, for which the amounts are made available. Any amount remaining 
after all payments are made under such allowances for the year or 
session shall be submitted to the Treasury to be used for deficit 
reduction.''.

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