[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 183 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 183

 To provide that pay for Members of Congress shall be reduced whenever 
 total expenditures of the Federal Government exceed total receipts in 
                any fiscal year, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 9, 1995

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that pay for Members of Congress shall be reduced whenever 
 total expenditures of the Federal Government exceed total receipts in 
                any fiscal year, and for other purposes.

    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 Fiscal Responsibility 
Incentive Act''.

SEC. 2. PROVISIONS RELATING TO MEMBERS' PAY.

    (a) In General.--Section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization 
Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(3)(A) For purposes of this paragraph, any determination as to 
whether total receipts of the Federal Government are greater than, less 
than, or equal to its total expenditures in a fiscal year shall be 
determined using total public expenditures, respectively, as indicated 
in the report submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury to the 
Congress under section 331(c) of title 31, United States Code, for such 
year.
    ``(B) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection, 
whenever the total expenditures of the Federal Government exceed its 
total receipts for a fiscal year, the annual rate of pay for each 
position under paragraph (1) (A) through (C) shall be reduced by 10 
percent, effective as of the first applicable pay period beginning on 
or after the date as of which Congress receives the report (referred to 
in subparagraph (A)) relating to such fiscal year.
    ``(C) Effective as of the first applicable pay period beginning on 
or after the date as of which Congress receives a report (referred to 
in subparagraph (A)) indicating that total receipts of the Federal 
Government are greater than or equal to its total expenditures for a 
fiscal year--
            ``(i) all reductions under subparagraph (B) then in effect 
        shall be disregarded; and
            ``(ii) pay for each position under paragraph (1) (A) 
        through (C) shall be restored to the level which would then be 
        in effect for such position if this paragraph had never been 
        enacted.
    ``(D) A pay adjustment under subparagraph (B) or (C) shall be made 
before any other adjustment otherwise scheduled to take effect on the 
same day for the same position.''.
    (b) Procedures.--(1) It shall not be in order in either the House 
of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or resolution 
which would increase the rate of basic pay for the Members of Congress 
(excluding any bill or resolution to which section 225(i) of the 
Federal Salary Act of 1967 (2 U.S.C. 359) applies) unless that bill or 
resolution deals with no subject matter other than a pay increase for 
Members.
    (2) Any bill or resolution which is subject to paragraph (1) may be 
passed or adopted, as the case may be, by the House of Representatives 
or the Senate only by a vote recorded so as to reflect the vote of each 
Member voting.
    (3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) are enacted by Congress--
            (A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate, respectively, and such rules 
        shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are 
        inconsistent therewith; and
            (B) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        each House to change such rules (so far as relating to such 
        House) at any time, in such manner, and to the same extent as 
        in the case of any other rule of such House.
    (c) Effective Date.--(1) This Act and the amendments made by this 
Act shall--
            (A) take effect on October 1 of the first fiscal year 
        following the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted; and
            (B) shall first apply to the fiscal year following the 
        fiscal year in which this Act is enacted.
    (2) This Act shall have no force or effect on and after the date of 
passage by both Houses of the Congress of a proposed amendment to the 
United States Constitution that requires that the total budgetary 
outlays of the United States in any fiscal year may not exceed the 
total receipts in such fiscal year.
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