[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 54 (Friday, May 6, 1994)]
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                     CONGRESSIONAL GIFTS REFORM ACT

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the bill.
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum. I 
withdraw the request.
  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, I had intended at this time to offer the 
amendment, following the amendment which would have been offered by the 
distinguished Senator from Nebraska [Mr. Exon], because I, too, share 
his concern about being consistent or inconsistent.
  So I was prepared to offer an amendment saying anybody who voted 
against a pay raise as a sitting Senator, and then has since taken the 
pay raise, would have to refund that to the Treasury.
  I noted there would have been quite a number of sitting Senators who 
voted no for the recent pay raise but I assume have been accepting it 
on a monthly basis. I think both the Senator from Nebraska and the 
Senator from Kansas made our points. I happened to vote for that pay 
raise, as did the Senator from Nebraska.
  But I think last night the effort to reduce the pay by 15 percent--
the amendment offered by the distinguished Senator from Montana [Mr. 
Burns]--was a good-faith effort. He felt strongly about it and he 
offered the amendment, but I believe, in view of the disposition of the 
previous amendment, to withdraw the amendment of the Senator from 
Nebraska [Mr. Exon], there is no need for this Senator to propose my 
amendment.
  I do not have any amendment to withdraw. I just make the statement 
based on the action of the Senator from Nebraska. I will not offer the 
amendment I just discussed, and discussed last evening.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the amendment be printed 
in the Record.
  There being no objection, the amendment was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

       At the appropriate place, add the following:
       It is the sense of the Senate that any Senator who voted 
     against pay raises for Members of Congress on July 17, 1991, 
     October 26, 1990, August 1, 1990, February 7, 1989, February 
     2, 1989, June 14, 1988, June 27, 1988, December 21, 1987, or 
     on any previous occasion, should return the pay raise to the 
     Treasury with interest.

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