[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 215 Introduced in House (IH)]







111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 215

   To provide that rates of pay for Members of Congress shall not be 
   subject to automatic adjustment; and to provide that any bill or 
 resolution, and any amendment to any bill or resolution, which would 
     increase Members' pay may be adopted only by a recorded vote.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 2009

 Mr. Wilson of South Carolina introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to 
  the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Rules, 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 rates of pay for Members of Congress shall not be 
   subject to automatic adjustment; and to provide that any bill or 
 resolution, and any amendment to any bill or resolution, which would 
     increase Members' pay may be adopted only by a recorded vote.

    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 Reform Act of 
2009''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF AUTOMATIC PAY ADJUSTMENTS FOR MEMBERS OF 
              CONGRESS.

    Section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 
U.S.C. 31) is amended to read as follows:
    ``Sec. 601. (a)(1) Until otherwise provided under section 225 of 
the Federal Salary Act of 1967 (2 U.S.C. 351 and following) or any 
other provision of law, the annual rate of pay for--
            ``(A) each Senator, Member of the House of Representatives, 
        and Delegate to the House of Representatives, and the Resident 
        Commissioner from Puerto Rico,
            ``(B) 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
            ``(C) the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
shall be the rate payable for such position as of the date of the 
enactment of the Congressional Pay Reform Act of 2009.
    ``(2)(A)(i) Any bill or resolution, and any amendment to any bill 
or resolution, that provides for any increase in the rate of pay 
payable for any position referred to in paragraph (1) may be adopted by 
the House of Representatives or the Senate only by a vote recorded so 
as to reflect the vote of each Member voting.
    ``(ii) Nothing in clause (i) shall apply with respect to any pay 
adjustment under section 225 of the Federal Salary Act of 1967.
    ``(B) The provisions of subparagraph (A) are enacted by the 
Congress--
            ``(i) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House 
        of Representatives and the Senate, respectively, and as such 
        they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, 
        respectively, and such rules shall supersede other rules only 
        to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and
            ``(ii) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change such rules (so far as relating to such 
        House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent 
        as in the case of any other rule of such House.''.
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