[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 343 Introduced in House (IH)]





105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 343

To provide that pay for Members of Congress may not be increased by any 
 adjustment scheduled to take effect in a year immediately following a 
   fiscal year in which a deficit in the budget of the United States 
                           Government exists.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 7, 1997

 Mr. Stearns (for himself, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Coburn, Mr. Hamilton, 
 and Ms. Danner) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
 the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, and in addition to 
   the Committee on House Oversight, 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 pay for Members of Congress may not be increased by any 
 adjustment scheduled to take effect in a year immediately following a 
   fiscal year in which a deficit in the budget of the United States 
                           Government exists.

    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 ``Deficit Accountability Act of 
1995''.

SEC. 2. EFFECT OF A BUDGET DEFICIT.

    Section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 
U.S.C. 31) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)(A) by striking ``Subject to 
        subparagraph (B),'' and inserting ``Subject to subparagraph (B) 
        and paragraph (3),''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(3)(A) An adjustment under paragraph (2) which is scheduled to 
take effect in a calendar year shall not be made if the budget of the 
United States Government was in deficit for the last fiscal year ending 
before the start of such calendar year, as determined under 
subparagraph (B).
    ``(B) Not later than 2 months after the end of each fiscal year, 
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall--
            ``(i) determine whether the budget of the United States 
        Government was in deficit for such fiscal year; and
            ``(ii) submit a written report to the Congress as to its 
        findings under this subparagraph.
A failure to make a timely determination under the preceding sentence 
shall be treated as a determination under this subparagraph that the 
budget of the United States Government was in deficit for the fiscal 
year involved.''.
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