1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Member of Congress Pay Sequestration and Fairness Act”.
Member of Congress Pay Sequestration and Fairness Act
A BILL
To amend part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to include the pay of Members of Congress within the coverage of the provisions of such Act which provide for budget enforcement through sequestration.
2. Inclusion of member pay among accounts subject to budget enforcement through sequestration
Inclusion— Paragraph (11) of section 250(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900(c)) is amended by inserting before the period the following: “, and such term includes any item for the pay of Senators or Representatives in, or Delegates or the Resident Commissioner to, the Congress”.
Effective date— The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to any sequestration occurring under part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 during the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress or any succeeding Congress.