To prevent Members of Congress from receiving the automatic pay adjustment scheduled to take effect in 2009.

Provides that no automatic pay adjustment shall be considered to have taken effect in FY2009 in the rates of basic pay for Members of Congress under the statutory pay system (thus eliminating the pay adjustment for Members for such fiscal year).

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5087 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5087

    To prevent Members of Congress from receiving the automatic pay 
              adjustment scheduled to take effect in 2009.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 22, 2008

Mr. Mitchell (for himself and Mr. Paul) 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 prevent Members of Congress from receiving the automatic pay 
              adjustment scheduled to take effect in 2009.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ELIMINATION OF AUTOMATIC PAY ADJUSTMENT FOR MEMBERS OF 
              CONGRESS IN 2009.

    For purposes of the provision of law amended by section 
704(a)(2)(B) of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 (5 U.S.C. 5318 note), no 
adjustment under section 5303 of title 5, United States Code, shall be 
considered to have taken effect in fiscal year 2009 in the rates of 
basic pay for the statutory pay systems.
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