Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit Members of Congress from receiving compensation during a fiscal year unless both Houses of Congress have agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget for that fiscal year prior to the beginning of that fiscal year.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 7.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FITZPATRICK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 1, January 3, 2025, Page H43):
  Article 5. The single subject of this legislation is: No budget no pay amendment.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  81 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 7, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hjres/7

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 15, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  1f059b4869d66e4a68fce254c332193cda7294b718894a647120ad3f64a58d25

  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 March 15, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.J.Res. 7, last updated March 15, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.