[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1383 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1383

 To amend the formula for determining the Official Mail Allowance for 
     Members of the House of Representatives, and to require that 
unobligated funds in the Official Mail Allowance of Members be used to 
                      reduce the Federal deficit.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 4, 1995

 Mr. Hutchinson (for himself, Mr. Inglis of South Carolina, Mr. Canady 
   of Florida, Mr. Hoekstra, Mr. Poshard, Mr. Goss, Mr. Parker, Ms. 
 Danner, Mr. Dickey, Mr. Jacobs, Mr. Wamp, Mr. Hastings of Washington, 
and Mr. Christensen) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                  to the Committee on House Oversight

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the formula for determining the Official Mail Allowance for 
     Members of the House of Representatives, and to require that 
unobligated funds in the Official Mail Allowance of Members be used to 
                      reduce the Federal deficit.

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

SECTION 1. FORMULA REDUCTION.

    (a) In General.--Paragraph (2) of section 311(e) of the Legislative 
Branch Appropriations Act, 1991 (2 U.S.C. 59e(e)(2)) is amended by 
adding at the end, as a flush sentence, the following:
``The words `3 times the' in clause (i) of subparagraph (B) shall, for 
purposes of applying such subparagraph with respect to--
            ``(i) the session of Congress beginning in January 1996, be 
        deemed to read `1.35 times the';
            ``(ii) the session of Congress beginning in January 1997, 
        be deemed to read `1.2 times the'; and
            ``(iii) any session of Congress thereafter, be deemed to 
        read `the'.
    (b) Technical Amendment.--Clause (i) of section 311(e)(2)(B) of 
such Act is amended by striking ``mail, and'' and inserting ``mail 
(subject to the last sentence of this paragraph), and''.

SEC. 2. DEFICIT REDUCTION.

    Any unobligated funds remaining in the Official Mail Allowance of a 
Member of the House of Representatives at the end of the period of time 
for which they are available for obligation shall be deposited into the 
general fund of the Treasury of the United States and applied toward 
the reduction of the Federal budget deficit.
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