[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3791 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3791

  To provide that no automatic pay adjustment for Members of Congress 
 shall be made in the year following a fiscal year in which there is a 
                        Federal budget deficit.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 10, 2004

Mr. Stearns (for himself, Mr. Hall, Mr. Flake, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. Deal of 
 Georgia, Mr. Bachus, Mr. Paul, and Mr. Franks of Arizona) 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 provide that no automatic pay adjustment for Members of Congress 
 shall be made in the year following a fiscal year in which there is a 
                        Federal budget deficit.

    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 
2004''.

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) An adjustment under paragraph (2) otherwise scheduled to take 
effect in a calendar year shall not be made if, as determined by the 
Office of Management and Budget, there was a deficit (as defined by 
section 3 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
1974) in the preceding fiscal year.''.
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