Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require a vote each year on whether to increase Members' pay.

Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to declare that, in the Committee of the Whole, before consideration of any other amendment to a bill making appropriations for the Department of the Treasury for any fiscal year, it shall be in order to consider an amendment only proposing to bar the automatic annual cost-of-living pay adjustment of Members of Congress that would otherwise take effect in such fiscal year.

Makes it out of order to consider any legislation between the two chambers making or continuing appropriations to the end of a fiscal year that includes appropriations for the Department of the Treasury for that fiscal year, unless the measure includes a provision to bar such pay adjustment, or the rule providing for its consideration allows a vote proposing to bar it.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H. Res. 98 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 98

 Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require a vote 
             each year on whether to increase Members' pay.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 28, 2009

Mr. Barrett of South Carolina submitted the following resolution; which 
                 was referred to the Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require a vote 
             each year on whether to increase Members' pay.

    Resolved, That rule XXI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new 
clause:
    ``11. (a) During consideration in the Committee of the Whole of a 
bill making appropriations for the Department of the Treasury for any 
fiscal year, before consideration of any other amendment, it shall be 
in order to consider an amendment only proposing to bar the automatic 
annual cost-of-living pay adjustment of Members of Congress that would 
otherwise take effect in such fiscal year. Such amendment shall be 
considered as read, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be 
subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or the 
Committee of the Whole. All points of order against such amendment are 
waived.
    ``(b) During consideration of a bill, conference report, or 
amendment between the two Houses making or continuing appropriations to 
the end of a fiscal year that includes appropriations for the 
Department of the Treasury for that fiscal year, it shall not be in 
order to consider such measure unless (1) the measure includes a 
provision to bar the automatic annual cost-of-living pay adjustment of 
Members of Congress that would otherwise take effect in such fiscal 
year or (2) the rule providing for its consideration allows a vote 
proposing to bar such automatic annual cost-of-living pay 
adjustment.''.
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