Introduce legislation to prohibit pay for Members of Congress until a balanced budget is passed.

Andy Biggs · Arizona · Republican

spending impact 0.78 specificity 0.92 extraction confidence 98%

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Occurrences

No pay for Members of Congress until a balanced budget is passed

A pledge to sponsor a bill that would withhold congressional pay until Congress passes a balanced budget.

Promises Made | Biggs for Congress
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Evidence

No pay for Members of Congress until a balanced budget is passed. Introduced on January 13, 2017.

Biggs’ campaign promise tracker says he pledged this goal and marks it as introduced on January 13, 2017.

delivered same_term A for effort

Promises Made | Biggs for Congress
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Sponsor: Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5] (Introduced 01/13/2017). Latest Action: House - 01/13/2017 Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Oversight and Government Reform.

Congress.gov shows Biggs as the sponsor of H.R. 536, introduced on January 13, 2017, which is concrete legislative action matching the promise to introduce legislation on member pay and the budget.

delivered same_term A for effort

H.R.536 - Protection From Obamacare Mandates and Congressional Equity Act
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Members of Congress: hold salaries in escrow if Congress does not adopt a concurrent budget resolution by a certain date (see H.R. 536), H544 [13JA].

The Congressional Record Index links Biggs to H.R. 536 for the member-pay escrow idea, corroborating that he advanced the promised legislation in the 115th Congress.

delivered same_term A for effort

BIGGS, ANDY (a Representative from Arizona) | Congressional Record Index | 115th Congress
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Assessments

delivered same_term

Biggs personally sponsored and introduced H.R. 536 on January 13, 2017, matching the promised action to introduce legislation affecting congressional pay until budget action. Because the promise is specifically to introduce legislation, not to enact it, the introduction itself satisfies the stated outcome and is attributable to him during his federal House service.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 93%