[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 223 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 223

  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

                            January 4, 2005

 Mr. Stearns 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 
2005''.

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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