2 U.S.C. § 359 — Effective date of recommendations of President

(1) None of the President's pay recommendations under section 358 take effect unless Congress approves them under (2). (2) (A) The recommendations count as approved if Congress enacts a bill or joint resolution approving them in their entirety, passed by a recorded vote showing how each member of Congress voted. (B) (i) This fast-track procedure is adopted by Congress as part of the Senate's and House's own rulemaking power — it's treated as part of each chamber's rules, replacing any conflicting rule, though each chamber can still change its own procedural rules at any time, the same way it could change any other rule. (ii) During the 60 calendar days after the President sends the recommendations to Congress under section 358, a bill or joint resolution approving them in their entirety — if introduced by the majority leader of that chamber (or their designee) — gets the highest privilege for being considered. (3) Except as (4) provides, any pay adjustment approved under (2) takes effect on the date the President originally proposed under section 358. (4) (A) Even if the President's recommendations are approved under (2), none of them take effect unless an "election of Representatives" happens between the date the approving bill becomes law and the earliest effective date the President proposed under section 358. (B) An "election of Representatives" means the general election held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November in an even-numbered year.