This report provides a history of congressional pay legislation from 1789 to the present. It discusses the methods by which the salary of Members of Congress may be adjusted, including recent changes in the method by which Congress must disapprove a President's quadrennial pay recommendation. Additionally, the report discusses the pending proposal of the President to increase Members' salaries from $77, 400 to $89,500 per annum. Appendices to the report provide a history of the payable and legal salaries of Members of Congress from 1789-1987 and the effects of full comparability on the salary of Members from 1975-1987. (For companion CRS reports see: Federal Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Compensation: the Situation and Choices as the 100th Congress Convenes, Report 86-1021 GOV; Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries: A Historical summary, Report 86-1050 GOV; Rate of Increase of Selected Public and Private Wages and Public Pensions Compared with Change in Consumer Price Index, 1969-1987, Report 86-1004 GOV; and A Brief Report on Congressional Pay, Report 86-1051 GOV.)
Paul E. Dwyer, Specialist in American National Government and Frederick H. Pauls, Senier Specialist in American National Government, Government Division
CRS 86-1022 GOV
"January 8, 1987"
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