Recess Appointment Restoration Act

Recess Appointment Restoration Act - Prohibits payment from the Treasury to any individual who is appointed to fill a vacancy that must be filled by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, until such appointee has been confirmed by the Senate, unless such individual was appointed while the Senate was adjourned for at least 10 days.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4364 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4364

  To amend title 5, United States Code, to specify further conditions 
 under which payment for the services of a recess appointee may not be 
                        made from the Treasury.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 17, 2012

Mr. Issa (for himself, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Mica, Mr. Farenthold, Mr. Ross 
 of Florida, Mr. McHenry, and Mr. Mack) introduced the following bill; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 5, United States Code, to specify further conditions 
 under which payment for the services of a recess appointee may not be 
                        made from the Treasury.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Recess Appointment Restoration 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

    Section 5503 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(c)(1) Payment for services may not be made from the Treasury of 
the United States to an individual appointed to fill a vacancy that is 
by law required to be filled by and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate, until the appointee has been confirmed by the Senate, unless 
the individual was appointed while the Senate was adjourned for at 
least 10 days.
    ``(2) For purposes of this subsection, a day of adjournment of the 
Senate is a day on which the Senate does not meet.''.
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