Congress·In Committee·H.R. 5637

No Work, No Pay Act of 2025

Congress Pay: No Pay During Government Shutdowns

Sep 30, 2025·View on Congress.gov·Read full text

Part of: Congressional Pay During Government Shutdowns

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StalledNext up: A house committeeNo action in 9 months

The No Work, No Pay Act of 2025 is currently sitting in two House committees. Nothing has happened with this bill since September 2025, and it is considered stalled. A House committee must take action before the bill can move forward.

Legislative Progress

House

No action since September 2025

Senate

President

Law

Unlikely to pass

Similar bills are introduced almost every year but rarely move past the committee stage because lawmakers are often hesitant to vote to cut their own pay.

How we got here

This bill’s path across every version that has carried it.

Reintroduced
Reintroduced from H.R. 5695 (118th), which died when its Congress ended.
H.R. 5695 (118th) →

Key Points

This bill would stop members of the House and Senate from getting paid if the government shuts down. For every day the government is closed because of a funding disagreement, lawmakers would lose one day of their salary.
The rule would apply to all members of Congress. It defines a shutdown as any time a federal agency runs out of money because a new budget or temporary spending bill was not passed.
The goal is to give lawmakers a personal financial reason to avoid shutdowns. Currently, many federal workers go without pay during shutdowns, but members of Congress continue to receive their checks.
If passed, this change would not start immediately. It is scheduled to take effect at the start of the next Congress, which begins in January 2027.

Impact Analysis

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Milestones

2 milestones2 actions

Sep 30, 2025House

Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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Sep 30, 2025

Introduced in House

The bill was officially filed and given a number. It now enters the legislative queue.

No votes or news coverage recorded for this bill yet.

Source Information

Document Type

Congressional Bill

Official Title

No Work, No Pay Act of 2025

Bill NumberHR 5637

Congress119th Congress

ChamberHouse of Representatives

Latest ActionReferred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Data Sources

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R: 1

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