Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit Members of Congress from receiving compensation for any period during which a Government shutdown is in effect.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 101.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. VAN ORDEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 187, November 13, 2023, Page H5730):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States The single subject of this legislation is: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit Members of Congress from receiving compensation for any period during which a Government shutdown is in effect.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 13, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  283 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 101, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hjres/101

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  931f3eda72f9c19c631716da64385f22c0d1dfe953624ce41d45b0628b5560e5

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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