[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 142 (Thursday, September 12, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S6034]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3273. Mr. BOOKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle A of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1216. ENHANCING FLEXIBILITY WITH RESPECT TO SENIOR USAID 
                   PERSONNEL.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 
     sections 5314 and 5315 of title 5, United States Code, the 
     Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
     Development (USAID) may modify the annual rate of basic pay 
     for one USAID employee receiving compensation at the annual 
     rate of basic pay prescribed for Level IV of the Executive 
     Schedule under section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, 
     to Level III of the Executive Schedule under section 5314 of 
     such title.
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