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PUBLIC LAW 90-206-DEC. 16, 1967

[81 STAT.

(c) The rates of compensation of employees of the House of Representatives whose compensation is fixed by the House Employees Schedule under the House Employees Position Classification Act (78 Stat. 1079-1084; Public Law 88-652; 2 U.S.C. 291-303), includ-, ing each employee subject to such Act whose compensation is fixed a r a saved rate, are hereby increased by amounts equal, as nearly as may be practicable, to the increases provided by subsection (a) of this section, (d) Except as provided in the last sentence of section 218(a) of this title, the additional compensation provided by this section shall be considered a part of basic pay for the purposes of subchapter III 80 Stat. 564 of chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code, relating to civil service Ante, p. 2 1 3. retirement. (e) The per annum rate of compensation of the Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation shall be the same as the per annum rate of compensation of the Legislative Counsel of the House of Representatives. (f) This section shall not apply with respect to the compensation of student congressional interns and the compensation of employees Avhose compensation is fixed by the House Wage Schedule under the 2^us*c*29i°^^te House Employces Position Classification Act. (g) The annual rate of gross compensation of each officer or employee whose compensation is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate, and the annual rate of gross compensation of each telephone operator on the United States Capitol telephone exchange and each member of the Capitol Police whose compensation is disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, (1) is increased by 4.5 per centum, and (2) as so increased shall be adjusted, effective the first day of the month following the date of enactment of this Act, to the nearest multiple of $188. (h) In any case in which the rate of compensation of any officer, employee, or position, or class of officers, employees, or positions, the compensation for which is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate, or any minimum or maximum rate with respect to such officer, employee, position, or class is referred to in or provided by statute or Senate resolution, such statutory provision or resolution shall be deemed to refer to the rate which an officer or employee subject to the provisions of subsection (g) receiving such rate immediately prior to the effective date of such subsection would be entitled (without regard to such statutory provision) to receive on and after such date. As used in this subsection and subsection (g), the term "officer" does not include a Senator. offi^e^o/^^"^'" (i) The annual rate of gross compensation of each employee in Senator. the office of a Senator shall be adjusted, effective on the first day of the month following the date of enactment of this Act, to the lowest multiple of $188 which is not lower than the rate such employee was receiving immediately prior thereto, except that the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply in the case of any employee if on or before the fifteenth day following the date of enactment of this Act, the Senator by whom such employee is employed notifies the disbursing office of the Senate in wanting that he does not wish such provisions to apply to such employee. No employee whose rate of compensation is adjusted under this subsection shall receive an increase under subsection {g) for any period prior to the effective date of such adjustment during which such employee was employed in the office of the Senator by whom he is employed on the first day of the month following the enactment of this Act. No increase shall be paid to any person under subsection (g) for any period prior to the first day of the month following the date of enactment of this Act during which such person was employed in the office of a Senator

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