[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2916 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2916

    To prevent Members of Congress from receiving the automatic pay 
              adjustment scheduled to take effect in 2008.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 28, 2007

Mr. Burton of Indiana introduced the following bill; which was referred 
   to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the 
   Committee on Oversight and 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 prevent Members of Congress from receiving the automatic pay 
              adjustment scheduled to take effect in 2008.

    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 ``Members of Congress Personal Fiscal 
Responsibility Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF AUTOMATIC PAY ADJUSTMENT FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS 
              IN 2008.

    For purposes of the provision of law amended by section 
704(a)(2)(B) of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 (5 U.S.C. 5318 note), no 
adjustment under section 5303 of title 5, United States Code, shall be 
considered to have taken effect in fiscal year 2008 in the rates of 
basic pay for the statutory pay systems.
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