[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 946 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 946

         To reduce the legislative branch budget by 25 percent.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                May 12 (legislative day, April 19), 1993

   Mr. Brown (for himself, Mr. Burns, Mr. Gregg, Mr. Faircloth, Mr. 
  Kempthorne, and Mr. Smith) introduced the following bill; which was 
       read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
         To reduce the legislative branch budget by 25 percent.

    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 ``Legislative Branch Budget Reduction 
Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The outlays for the legislative branch increased from 
        $1,367,000,000 in fiscal year 1982, to $2,760,000,000 in fiscal 
        year 1992, a 102 percent increase.
            (2) The legislative branch staff now totals more than 
        38,000, which is the largest staff on any deliberative body in 
        the world, 9 times larger than that of Great Britain, Germany, 
        Canada, and Japan.
            (3) The salary of a Member of Congress has risen from 
        $60,662 in 1981, to $129,500 in 1992, an increase of 113 
        percent.
            (4) The expenditures for the Congress in fiscal year 1993 
        are estimated to be $5,050,000 per Senator and $1,970,000 per 
        Representative.

SEC. 3. CUTTING THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH BUDGET BY 25 PERCENT.

    The amount of budget authority provided to the legislative branch 
of the United States in each of the fiscal years 1994, 1995, 1996, 
1997, and 1998 shall be no more than 75 percent of the amount 
appropriated for fiscal year 1993.

SEC. 4. UNOBLIGATED FUNDS.

    No unobligated funds for any fiscal year may be expended in any 
subsequent fiscal year, and any such funds shall be returned to the 
Treasury in order to reduce the deficit.

SEC. 5. INDEPENDENT STUDY.

    An independent firm jointly selected by the Speaker of the House, 
the minority leader of the House, the majority leader of the Senate, 
and the minority leader of the Senate, shall conduct a study of the 
staff needs of the Congress, to be funded out of the contingent funds 
of the House of Representatives and Senate.

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