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Version 82 · Passed Senate without amendment · Mar 1, 2011
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Prohibits Members of Congress and the President from receiving basic pay for any period in which: (1) there is more than a 24-hour lapse in appropriations for any federal agency or department that results from failure to enact a regular appropriations bill or continuing resolution, or (2) the federal government is unable to make payments or meet obligations because the public debt limit has been reached.
Bars such forfeited pay from being paid retroactively.
People & committees
Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] · D–CA
Legislative record
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Held at the desk.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Received in the House.
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S1051)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S1051)
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1051-1052)
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S1051-1052)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S887-888)
Introduced in Senate
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