2 U.S.C. § 364 — Provision relating to certain other pay adjustments

(1) Any law that raises the pay rate for an office or position covered by subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of section 356 of this title cannot take effect before the next Congress begins, after the Congress that passed it. (2) For this section's purposes, a law passed between the Tuesday after the first Monday of November in an even-numbered year and the following January 3 at noon counts as passed during the first session of the next Congress, not the one still in office when it was signed. (3) This section does not apply to a pay increase that: (A) takes effect automatically under the earlier sections of this chapter; (B) is based on, or replaces an adjustment based on, a change in the Employment Cost Index as described in section 704(a)(1) of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989; or (C) takes effect under section 702 or 703 of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989.