1.Elimination of automatic pay
adjustments for Members of Congress
(a)Paragraph (2) of section 601(a) of the Legislative
Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31) is repealed.
(b)Technical and
conforming amendmentsSection 601(a)(1) of such Act is
amended—
(1)by striking
(a)(1)
and inserting (a)
;
(2)by redesignating
subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) as paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), respectively;
and
(3)by striking
as adjusted by paragraph (2) of this subsection
and inserting
adjusted as provided by law
.
2.Roll call vote
in the Senate on pay adjustments for Members of Congress
(a)It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider a
bill, amendment, resolution, or conference report containing any provision that
adjusts the pay of Members of Congress, unless that provision has been subject
to a roll call vote in the Senate.
(b)Supermajority
waiver and appealThis section may be waived or suspended in the
Senate only by an affirmative vote of 3⁄5 of the Members,
duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of 3⁄5 of the
Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the Senate
to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised
under this section.
(c)Rulemaking
power of the SenateThis section is enacted by Congress—
(1)as an exercise of
the rulemaking power of the Senate and as such it is deemed a part of the rules
of the Senate, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed
in the Senate in the case of a provision described under subsection (a), and it
supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent with such
rules; and
(2)with full
recognition of the constitutional right of the Senate to change the rules (so
far as relating to the procedure of the Senate) at any time, in the same
manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the
Senate.
3.This Act shall take
effect on February 1, 2011.