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C onq)ens ation.

Payment of e x penses.

Determinations.

Report.

PUBLIC LAW 220-AUG. 7, 1953

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active or retired judges or justices of courts of the United States, to be appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States. Advisory members shall have all the rights and privileges of other members of the Commission except that of voting upon matters before the Commission. (c) No person shall be qualified to serve as a member of the Commission, except as an advisory member, who is or has at any time been a Member of Congress or a justice or judge of a court of the United States. (d) The members of the Commission shall serve without pay but shall be entitled to $25 per diem in lieu of subsistence while attending meetings of the Commission away from their homes, together with transportation costs and other expenses incidental to attendance upon such meetings. (e) The expenses of the Commission, which shall not exceed $20,000, shall be paid one-half from the contingent fund of the Senate and one-half from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives upon vouchers signed by the chairman of the Commission. Disbursements to pay such expenses shall be made by the Secretary of the Senate out of the contingent fund of the Senate, such contingent fund to be reimbursed from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives in the amount of one-half of the disbursements so made. SEC. 2. (a) The Commission shall (1) determine appropriate rates of salaries for justices and judges of the courts of the United States and for the Vice President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Members of Congress, in order to provide fair and reasonable compensation to such officials, and (2) report its findings on or before January 15, 1954, to the President, the Chief Justice of the United States, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. (b) I n determining such rates the Commission shall take into consideration any and all factors deemed by it to be pertinent and appropriate, including, but not limited to— (1) the qualifications desirable for members of the Federal judiciary and for the presiding officers and Members of the Congress; (2) the compensation or income currently earned by persons of comparable qualifications in labor, business, the professions, or other private pursuits; (3) the sacrifices involved in the acceptance of appointment to the Federal judiciary or of membership in the Congress, including (A) in the case of members of the Federal judiciary the interruption of private practice at the time when it is most remunerative, and the necessity for divorcing oneself from outside activities which are productive of income, and (B) in the case of Members of the Congress the interruption of a private career, the importance of preserving, to the extent possible, the Member's station in his community in anticipation of the time when he may be retired to private life, and the difficulties accompanying the resumption of a private career; (4) the interruptions to normal family life, resulting in the case of many members of the Federal judiciary from the necessity of holding court at points remote from their residences and in the case of Members of the Congress from the necessity of maintaining two domiciles, one at the seat of government and the other in the Member's State; and (5) in the case of Members of the Congress, the necessity of making frequent trips between the seat of government and the

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