No pay for Members of Congress until a balanced budget is passed
Introduce legislation to prohibit pay for Members of Congress until a balanced budget is passed.
Occurrences
Evidence
No pay for Members of Congress until a balanced budget is passed. Introduced on January 13, 2017.
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.
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].
Congress.gov identifies H.R. 536 as sponsored by Rep. Andy Biggs and introduced in the House on January 13, 2017.
The Congressional Record Index entry for Rep. Andy Biggs in the 115th Congress links him to H.R. 536.
Recent lookback-window reporting describes Biggs as a sitting congressman running for Arizona governor and does not report any reversal of the already-completed federal introduction commitment.
Assessments
The promised action was to introduce legislation, not necessarily to enact it. Official congressional metadata and the Congressional Record evidence show Rep. Andy Biggs sponsored H.R. 536 and introduced it on January 13, 2017, addressing congressional pay being withheld or escrowed if Congress failed to adopt the required budget measure. That materially satisfies the introduction commitment during his federal House service.
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.