A bill to provide that adjustments in the rates of pay for Members of Congress shall be considered in a manner separate from that for other employees and officials of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of Government, and to provide that such adjustments in the rates of pay for Members of Congress shall take effect at the beginning of the Congress following the Congress in which they are approved and then only if approved by a concurrent resolution of the Congress.

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Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and the Federal Salary Act of 1967 to limit the annual rate of pay for Members of Congress to the rate payable for such positions for November 1, 1979, as adjusted under the Federal Salary Act of 1967. Directs that adjustments in the rates of pay of Members of Congress shall take effect at the beginning of the Congress following the Congress in which they were approved. Conditions such adjustment on the approval of a concurrent resolution by a recorded vote by both Houses of Congress. Prohibits any congressional employee from being paid at a rate in excess of the rate payable for Senators and Members of the House of Representatives. Requires the President to transmit to the Congress, within the first 15 days of January after the date on which the report and recommendations concerning salaries of the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries are required to be submitted, his recommendations with respect to the rates of pay of Members of Congress, legislative, and judicial employees.

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  summary · EN · 23 October 1979

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