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US Federal Government • Enrolled Bill H.R.325 – No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013

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By Gary Triplett

AT THE FIRST SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday,
the third day of January, two thousand and thirteen

To ensure the complete and timely payment of the obligations of the United States Government until May 19, 2013, and for other purposes.

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 “No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013”.

SEC. 2. TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF DEBT CEILING.
(a) Suspension.—Section 3101(b) of title 31, United States Code, shall not apply for the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on May 18, 2013.

(b) Special Rule Relating To Obligations Issued During Suspension Period.—Effective May 19, 2013, the limitation in section 3101(b) of title 31, United States Code, as increased by section 3101A of such title, is increased to the extent that—

(1) the face amount of obligations issued under chapter 31 of such title and the face amount of obligations whose principal and interest are guaranteed by the United States Government (except guaranteed obligations held by the Secretary of the Treasury) outstanding on May 19, 2013, exceeds

(2) the face amount of such obligations outstanding on the date of the enactment of this Act.

An obligation shall not be taken into account under paragraph (1) unless the issuance of such obligation was necessary to fund a commitment incurred by the Federal Government that required payment before May 19, 2013.

SEC. 3. HOLDING SALARIES OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS IN ESCROW UPON FAILURE TO AGREE TO BUDGET RESOLUTION.
(a) Holding Salaries In Escrow.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—If by April 15, 2013, a House of Congress has not agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2014 pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, during the period described in paragraph (2) the payroll administrator of that House of Congress shall deposit in an escrow account all payments otherwise required to be made during such period for the compensation of Members of Congress who serve in that House of Congress, and shall release such payments to such Members only upon the expiration of such period.

(2) PERIOD DESCRIBED.—With respect to a House of Congress, the period described in this paragraph is the period which begins on April 16, 2013, and ends on the earlier of—

(A) the day on which the House of Congress agrees to a concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2014 pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974;
or

(B) the last day of the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress.

(3) WITHHOLDING AND REMITTANCE OF AMOUNTS FROM PAYMENTS HELD IN ESCROW.—The payroll administrator shall provide for the same withholding and remittance with respect to a payment deposited in an escrow account under paragraph (1) that would apply to the payment if the payment were not subject to paragraph (1).

(4) RELEASE OF AMOUNTS AT END OF THE CONGRESS.—In order to ensure that this section is carried out in a manner that shall not vary the compensation of Senators or Representatives in violation of the twenty-seventh article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the payroll administrator of a House of Congress shall release for payments to Members of that House of Congress any amounts remaining in any escrow account under this section on the last day of the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress.

(5) ROLE OF SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall provide the payroll administrators of the Houses of Congress with such assistance as may be necessary to enable the payroll administrators to carry out this section.

(b) Treatment Of Delegates As Members.—In this section, the term “Member” includes a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress.

(c) Payroll Administrator Defined.—In this section, the “payroll administrator” of a House of Congress means—

(1) in the case of the House of Representatives, the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives, or an employee of the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer who is designated by the Chief Administrative Officer to carry out this section; and

(2) in the case of the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate, or an employee of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate who is designated by the Secretary to carry out this section.

Attest:

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Attest:

Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.

Statistics: Posted by Gary Triplett — Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:07 pm

Source: FULL ARTICLE at gov.summit.net

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Have House Republicans Finally Found a Productive Fiscal Strategy?

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By Avik Roy, Contributor The Republican decision to pass a temporary extension of the U.S. debt ceiling, without any corresponding spending cuts, could be seen as a capitulation. After all, plenty of GOP politicians had been promising that they would not vote to increase the debt limit without substantial fiscal reforms. But the “No Budget, No Pay Act,” which seeks to extend the debt limit through May, is in fact an encouraging sign that Republicans have become realistic about their political leverage. Indeed, they may have found a way to persuade Democrats to work with them to reduce the deficit.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

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Weekly News & Politics Digest, January 25, 2013

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  • Culpeper • Culpeper town manager fired after closed-door session
    Hank Silverberg, wtop.com

    WASHINGTON – The town manager of Culpeper, Va. was fired on Tuesday in a 5-2 vote that came after a long, closed-door council session.

    No details have been released as to why Kim Alexander was fired, but an earlier report in the Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star indicated her investigation of police Capt. Chris Settle had angered some council members.

    Alexander will get six months severance pay.

    Asst. Town Manager Chris Hively will take over the job in the interim.

    The firing was announced in a press release from the town’s spokesman, Wally Bunker, who was reinstated to his job at the same meeting. He had resigned Jan. 16.

    Bunker says they can’t discuss any of the details on either decision .

    Alexander had served as town manager for just over a year. She came from Dumfries.

    Follow @WTOP on Twitter.
    (Copyright 2013 by WTOP. All Rights Reserved.)

    Chris Hively, acting town manager of Culpeper, Va.,
    after Kim Alexander was fired Tuesday.
    (Courtesy Town of Culpeper)

    Statistics: Posted by Concerned — Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:56 am

  • What’s On Your Mind • House Passes No Budget, No Pay Act
    House Passes No Budget, No Pay Act
    Bill would require Senate to pass a budget before being paid

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    Rep. Cantor answers questions with colleagues about “No Budget, No Pay”

    The House of Representatives today passed the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013 (H.R. 325 ), a measure that will require Senate Democrats to finally pass a budget, something they failed to do for the past four years. In addition, the measure will temporarily extend the debt ceiling and give both chambers of Congress time to pass a budget and responsibly address our nation’s spending crisis. The bill passed on a bipartisan vote of 285-144 (Roll No. 30 ).
    In response to the passage of the No Budget, No Pay Act, Congressman Eric Cantor said, “Today’s vote was the first step towards trying to resolve the nation’s fiscal crisis in a responsible manner. I look forward to working with the White House and Senate to do so. It’s interesting to note, after almost four years having passed, with an economy that has been struggling, the Senate never acted. It took one week in which their paychecks were on the line and now the Senate is going to step up and do the right thing.”
    The House has passed a responsible budget in each of the last two years that promotes economic growth and responsibly reduces spending, and will do so again this year. Today’s bill requires the House and Senate to each pass a budget that reflects its priorities and withholds pay if they fail to do their job.
    While the House will continue to focus on balancing the budget, Congressman Cantor urged the Senate to act, “We welcome them to this debate about the budget of the nation and look forward to making sure we can begin to reduce the mountain of debt that is facing our children.”

    Statistics: Posted by Frank Jenkins — Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:41 am

  • What’s On Your Mind • This solves serious problems–by Warren Buffet
    Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:

    “I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just
    pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more
    than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible
    for re-election.

    The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds)
    took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple!
    The people demanded it. That was in 1971 – before computers, e-mail,
    cell phones, etc.

    Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year
    or less to become the law of the land – all because of public pressure.

    Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to
    a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask
    each of those to do likewise.

    In three days, most people in The United States of America will
    have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed
    around.

    Congressional Reform Act of 2012

    1. No Tenure / No Pension.

    A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no
    pay when they’re out of office.

    2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social
    Security.

    All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the
    Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into
    the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the
    American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

    3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all
    Americans do.

    4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
    Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

    5. Congress loses their current health care system and
    participates in the same health care system as the American people.

    6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the
    American people.

    7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void
    effective 12/1/12. The American people did not make this
    contract with Congressmen/women.

    Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in
    Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
    envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their
    term(s), then go home and back to work.

    If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will
    only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive
    the message. Don’t you think it’s time?

    THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!

    Statistics: Posted by Frank Jenkins — Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:13 pm

  • What’s On Your Mind • New Scam – Beware
    The following was sent to me by a friend:

    Just when you think you’ve heard it all. Here comes another scam.

    WOW, WHAT NEXT?

    This scam is very clever. Be very careful out there! One could easily fall
    for this – beware of people bearing gifts

    There is a new and clever credit card scam. Please circulate this. Someone
    it happened to says it works like this:

    Wednesday a week ago, I had a phone call from someone who said that he was
    from some outfit called: “Express Couriers” asking if I was going to be
    home because there was a package for me, and the caller said that the
    delivery would arrive at my home in roughly an hour. And sure enough, about an
    hour later, a uniformed delivery man turned up with a beautiful basket of
    flowers and wine. I was very surprised since it did not involve any special
    occasion or holiday, and I certainly didn’t expect anything like it. Intrigued
    about who would send me such a gift, I inquired as to who the sender is.
    The deliveryman’s reply was, he was only delivering the gift package, but
    allegedly a card was being sent separately; (the card has never arrived!).
    There was also a consignment note with the gift.

    He then went on to explain that because the gift contained alcohol, there
    was a $3.50 “delivery charge” as proof that he had actually delivered the
    package to an adult, and not just left it on the doorstep where it could be
    stolen or taken by anyone.

    This sounded logical and I offered to pay him cash. He then said that the
    company required the payment to be by credit or debit card only so that
    everything is properly accounted for.

    My husband, who by this time was standing beside me, pulled his wallet out
    of his pocket with the credit/debit card, and ‘John’, the “delivery man”,
    asked my husband to swipe the card on the small mobile card machine which
    had a small screen and keypad where Frank was also asked to enter the card’s
    PIN and security number. A receipt was printed out and given to us.

    To our horrible surprise, between Thursday and the following Monday,
    $4,000 had been charged/withdrawn from our credit/debit account at various ATM
    machines.

    It appeared that somehow the “mobile credit card machine” which the
    deliveryman carried now had all the info necessary to create a “dummy” card with
    all our card details after my husband swiped our card and entered the
    requested PIN and security number.

    Upon finding out about the illegal transactions on our card, we
    immediately notified the bank which issued us the card, and our credit/debit account
    was closed.

    We also personally went to the Police, where it was confirmed that it is
    definitely a scam because several households had been similarly hit.

    WARNING: Be wary of accepting any “surprise gift or package”, which you
    neither expected nor personally ordered, especially if it involves any kind
    of payment as a condition of receiving the gift or package. Also, never
    accept anything if you do not personally know or there is no proper
    identification of who the sender is.

    Above all, the only time you should give out any personal credit/debit
    card information is when you yourself initiated the purchase or transaction!

    Pass this on, it may just prevent someone else from being swindled. No
    virus found in this message.

    Statistics: Posted by Frank Jenkins — Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:08 pm

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What’s On Your Mind • House Passes No Budget, No Pay Act

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By Frank Jenkins

House Passes No Budget, No Pay Act
Bill would require Senate to pass a budget before being paid

Video from : youtube.com
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Rep. Cantor answers questions with colleagues about “No Budget, No Pay”

The House of Representatives today passed the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013 (H.R. 325 ), a measure that will require Senate Democrats to finally pass a budget, something they failed to do for the past four years. In addition, the measure will temporarily extend the debt ceiling and give both chambers of Congress time to pass a budget and responsibly address our nation’s spending crisis. The bill passed on a bipartisan vote of 285-144 (Roll No. 30 ).
In response to the passage of the No Budget, No Pay Act, Congressman Eric Cantor said, “Today’s vote was the first step towards trying to resolve the nation’s fiscal crisis in a responsible manner. I look forward to working with the White House and Senate to do so. It’s interesting to note, after almost four years having passed, with an economy that has been struggling, the Senate never acted. It took one week in which their paychecks were on the line and now the Senate is going to step up and do the right thing.”
The House has passed a responsible budget in each of the last two years that promotes economic growth and responsibly reduces spending, and will do so again this year. Today’s bill requires the House and Senate to each pass a budget that reflects its priorities and withholds pay if they fail to do their job.
While the House will continue to focus on balancing the budget, Congressman Cantor urged the Senate to act, “We welcome them to this debate about the budget of the nation and look forward to making sure we can begin to reduce the mountain of debt that is facing our children.”

Statistics: Posted by Frank Jenkins — Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:41 am

Source: FULL ARTICLE at gov.summit.net