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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Feb 3, 1995
Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1965 to direct the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives to include in each semiannual report of expenditures: (1) the total amount of individual contributions made by each Member of Congress to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and the Thrift Savings Fund for all Federal service performed as a Member and a Federal employee; (2) an estimate of the annuity each Member would be entitled to receive based on the earliest possible date for receipt of annuity payments by reason of retirement beginning after the expiration of the Member's term of office; and (3) any other information necessary to enable the public to compute the Federal retirement benefits of each Member based on various assumptions of years of service and age of separation from service by reason of retirement.
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Sen. Abraham, Spencer [R-MI] · R–MI
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2079, S2134-2135)
Introduced in Senate
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