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U.S. Code > Title 2 > Chapter 11 > § 359 - Effective date of recommendations of President

  (1) None of the President's recommendations under section 358 of
this title shall take effect unless approved under paragraph (2).
  (2)(A) The recommendations of the President under section 358 of
this title shall be considered approved under this paragraph if
there is enacted into law a bill or joint resolution approving such
recommendations in their entirety. This bill or joint resolution
shall be passed by recorded vote to reflect the vote of each Member
of Congress thereon.
  (B)(i) The provisions of this subparagraph are enacted by the
Congress - 
    (I) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and
  the House of Representatives and as such shall be considered as
  part of the rules of each House, and shall supersede other rules
  only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and
    (II) with full recognition of the constitutional right of
  either House to change the rules (so far as they relate to the
  procedures of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and to
  the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.

  (ii) During the 60-calendar-day period beginning on the date that
the President transmits his recommendations to the Congress under
section 358 of this title, it shall be in order as a matter of
highest privilege in each House of Congress to consider a bill or
joint resolution, if offered by the majority leader of such House
(or a designee), approving such recommendations in their entirety.
  (3) Except as provided in paragraph (4), any recommended pay
adjustment approved under paragraph (2) shall take effect as of the
date proposed by the President under section 358 of this title with
respect to such adjustment.
  (4)(A) Notwithstanding the approval of the President's pay
recommendations in accordance with paragraph (2), none of those
recommendations shall take effect unless, between the date on which
the bill or resolution approving those recommendations is signed by
the President (or otherwise becomes law) and the earliest date as
of which the President proposes (under section 358 of this title)
that any of those recommendations take effect, an election of
Representatives shall have intervened.
  (B) For purposes of this paragraph, the term "election of
Representatives" means an election held on the Tuesday following
the first Monday of November in any even-numbered calendar year.

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