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Committee backs bill to withhold members' pay during shutdowns
Summary
The House Committee on Administration voted to report H.R.5891, a bill that would prohibit Members of Congress from collecting pay during lapses in appropriations, after members debated the measure's fairness to unpaid federal employees and its role in fixing the spending process.
The House Committee on Administration voted to report H.R.5891, the Withhold Member Pay During Shutdowns Act, to the full House after adopting an amendment in the nature of a substitute and a roll-call vote that the clerk recorded as nine ayes and zero nays.
The bill, as described by the committee chair, would bar members of Congress from receiving pay during a lapse in appropriations. The chair framed the legislation as a response to federal workers—particularly Department of Homeland Security employees and TSA…
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