[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 235 Introduced in House (IH)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 235

    To eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 1999

  Mr. Riley (for himself, Mr. Souder, Mr. Cooksey, Mr. Thune, and Mr. 
 Brady of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee 
on Government Reform, 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 eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.

    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 Pay Integrity and 
Accountability Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF AUTOMATIC PAY ADJUSTMENTS.

    Section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 
U.S.C. 31) is amended to read as follows:
    ``Sec. 601. (a) Until adjusted under section 225 of the Federal 
Salary Act of 1967 (2 U.S.C. 351 and following) or other provision of 
law, the annual rate of pay for--
            ``(1) each Senator, Member of the House of Representatives, 
        and Delegate to the House of Representatives, and the Resident 
        Commissioner from Puerto Rico,
            ``(2) the President pro tempore of the Senate, the majority 
        leader and the minority leader of the Senate, and the majority 
        leader and the minority leader of the House of Representatives, 
        and
            ``(3) the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
shall be the rate payable for such position as of the date of enactment 
of the Congressional Pay Integrity and Accountability Act of 1999.''.
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