[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 31 Introduced in House (IH)]

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108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 31

   To nullify the recent pay increase and to eliminate automatic pay 
                  adjustments for Members of Congress.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 7, 2003

   Mr. Jeff Miller of Florida (for himself, Mr. Paul, Mr. Goode, Mr. 
Larsen of Washington, Mr. Tancredo, Mr. Ose, Mr. Hall, and Mr. Forbes) 
 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 nullify the recent pay increase and 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 ``Rescind the Congressional Pay Raise 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROVISIONS RELATING TO PAY FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

    (a) In General.--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 otherwise provided by law (including under 
section 225 of the Federal Salary Act of 1967), 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 positions as of December 31, 
2002.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--This Act shall take effect on the first day of 
the first pay period commencing after the next election of 
Representatives (within the meaning of the twenty-seventh article of 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States) occurring after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.