[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 876 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 876

 To provide that the pay of Members of Congress shall be reduced until 
 the minimum wage is raised to at least $5.15 an hour, and that such a 
reduction shall be equal to an adjustment in the Employment Cost Index.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 9, 1995

Mr. Gutierrez introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on House Oversight and, in addition, to the Committee on 
Economic and Educational Opportunities, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that the pay of Members of Congress shall be reduced until 
 the minimum wage is raised to at least $5.15 an hour, and that such a 
reduction shall be equal to an adjustment in the Employment Cost Index.

    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 ``No Maximum Wage for Congress without 
a New Minimum Wage for America Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION OF PAY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS PENDING INCREASE IN 
              MINIMUM WAGE.

    Notwithstanding section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization 
Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31) or any other provision of law, the rate of 
pay of Members of Congress shall be reduced by 2.6 percent on the date 
of the enactment of this Act and by 2.6 percent at the end of each one-
year period thereafter, until the effective date of the first increase 
to at least $5.15 per hour in the minimum wage under section 6(a) of 
the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
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