[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 398 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 398

To reduce the rate of pay for Members of Congress by 10 percent and to 
            eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 23, 2013

    Mr. Loebsack (for himself and Mrs. Kirkpatrick) 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 reduce the rate of pay for Members of Congress by 10 percent and to 
            eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members.

    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 Halt in Pay Increases 
and Cut Congressional Pay Act''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN PAY.

    (a) In General.--Section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization 
Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31) is amended to read as follows:
    ``Sec. 601. (a) Effective as of the beginning of the first 
applicable pay period commencing after the date on which is held the 
next regularly scheduled general election for Federal office following 
the date of the enactment of the Congressional Halt in Pay Increases 
and Cut Congressional Pay Act, the annual rate of pay for--
            ``(1) each Senator, Member of the House of Representatives, 
        and Delegate to the House of Representatives, and the Resident 
        Commissioner from Puerto Rico,
            ``(2) 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
            ``(3) the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
shall be equal to the annual rate of pay for that position as of the 
date on which such general election is held, reduced by 10 percent.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect as of the 
date on which is held the next regularly scheduled general election for 
Federal office following the date of the enactment of this Act.
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