[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 713 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 713

  To require that the salaries of Members of Congress be sequestered 
    first before any sequester occurs under the Balanced Budget and 
                 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                April 1 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

Mr. Lautenberg introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
           referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require that the salaries of Members of Congress be sequestered 
    first before any sequester occurs under the Balanced Budget and 
                 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

    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 ``Congressional Overspending Pay 
Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. SEQUESTERING THE PAY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

    (a) Member Sequester.--Section 251 of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by adding at the end 
thereof the following:
    ``(c) Congressional Pay.--The pay of each Member of Congress shall 
be reduced by the uniform percentage determined under subsection (a)(2) 
in any fiscal year in which there is a sequester under this section 
before such sequester occurs.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
        amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date 
        of enactment of this section.
            (2) 27th amendment.--If the application of the amendment 
        made by subsection (a) to the pay of Members of Congress 
        pursuant to paragraph (1) is held to be unconstitutional under 
        the XXVII Amendment to the Constitution, the amendment made by 
        subsection (a) shall take effect upon the convening of the 
        104th Congress.

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