An Act to amend title 39, United States Code, to apply to the United States Postal Service certain provisions of law providing for Federal agency safety programs and responsibilities, to provide for cost-of-living adjustments of Federal executive salaries, and for other purposes.
Public Law 94-82 · H.R. 2559 · 94th Congress · began in the House
Signed by Gerald Ford (R) on Aug 9, 1975 · Government Operations and Politics
Sponsor: Rep. Charles Wilson (D-CA-31)
Cosponsors: None
Passage votesYeaNay
- HouseMethod not stated
- SenateRecorded vote: 58 yea, 29 nay58–29
Data notes
The final version of the law, as each chamber passed it. A chamber that passed it by voice vote or unanimous consent has no count. “Method not stated” means the record does not say how the chamber voted. Where the record has a member-by-member vote, the “Who voted for it” section shows who voted yea.
Summary
The Congressional Research Service’s plain-language summary of what the law does.
=Title I: Postal Service= - Provides for the application to the United States Postal Service of provisions of law providing for Federal agency safety programs and responsibilities pursuant to the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
=Title II: Executive Salaries= - Executive Salary Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act - Provides a new method for annual adjustment of rates of pay for each level of the Executive Schedule. States that the adjustment would become effective whenever a comparability adjustment is made under present provisions in the statutory salary systems (normally in October of each year). Provides that the amount of the adjustment would equal the percentage of the comparability adjustment, rounded to the nearest $100.
Provides a method for the automatic adjustment of the rate of pay for the Vice President under a formula identical to the formula prescribed for the Executive Salary Schedule.
Provides that the pay of Members of Congress, and congressional employees and officials would be adjusted at the same time and under the same formula used for the Executive Salary Schedule.
Provides that salaries in the judicial branch would also be adjusted under a formula identical to that used for the Executive Salary Schedule.
Includes the offices of Vice President and specified legislative branch officials within the purview of the quadrennial salary review of the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries.
Who voted for it
Every senator of the 94th Congress on the ideology compass. Highlighted: the 59 who voted yea on final passage. Faded: everyone else, including those who voted nay, did not vote, or had not yet taken office.
59 yea31 nay9 present or did not vote
Democrats who voted yea(34)
- Sen. James AbourezkD-SD
- Sen. Dick ClarkD-IA
- Sen. Gaylord NelsonD-WI
- Sen. Mike MansfieldD-MT
- Sen. Floyd HaskellD-CO
- Sen. Lee MetcalfD-MT
- Sen. John CulverD-IA
Sen. Ted KennedyD-MA- Sen. Philip HartD-MI
- Sen. William HathawayD-ME
- Sen. Rupert HartkeD-IN
Sen. Patrick LeahyD-VT- Sen. Birch BayhD-IN
- Sen. Walter MondaleD-MN
- Sen. Thomas EagletonD-MO
- Sen. Alan CranstonD-CA
- Sen. Frank ChurchD-ID
- Sen. Fritz HollingsD-SC
- Sen. Hubert HumphreyD-MN
- Sen. Thomas McIntyreD-NH
- Sen. Frank MossD-UT
- Sen. Claiborne PellD-RI
- Sen. Dee HuddlestonD-KY
- Sen. Harrison WilliamsD-NJ
- Sen. Scoop JacksonD-WA
- Sen. Warren MagnusonD-WA
- Sen. Abraham RibicoffD-CT
Sen. Daniel InouyeD-HI- Sen. Mike GravelD-AK
- Sen. John JohnstonD-LA
- Sen. Samuel NunnD-GA
- Sen. John SparkmanD-AL
- Sen. Gale McGeeD-WY
- Sen. Russell LongD-LA
Republicans who voted yea(24)
- Sen. Clifford CaseR-NJ
- Sen. Edward BrookeR-MA
- Sen. Richard SchweikerR-PA
- Sen. Jacob JavitsR-NY
- Sen. Charles MathiasR-MD
- Sen. Charles PercyR-IL
- Sen. Lowell WeickerR-CT
- Sen. Hugh ScottR-PA
- Sen. James PearsonR-KS
- Sen. John BeallR-MD
- Sen. Robert PackwoodR-OR
- Sen. Hiram FongR-HI
Sen. Ted StevensR-AK- Sen. Milton YoungR-ND
Sen. Pete DomeniciR-NM- Sen. Robert DoleR-KS
- Sen. Howard BakerR-TN
- Sen. Robert GriffinR-MI
- Sen. Roman HruskaR-NE
- Sen. Paul LaxaltR-NV
- Sen. William ScottR-VA
- Sen. John TowerR-TX
- Sen. James McClureR-ID
- Sen. Paul FanninR-AZ
Data notes
The Senate’s recorded vote on the final version of the law (roll call 352 in Voteview), matched to the vote the record cites and checked against its totals. Positions are each member’s DW-NOMINATE score for that Congress, as on the Ideology page; left to right is more liberal to more conservative. Paired and announced yea votes count as yea. Lists follow the compass, most liberal first. 1 yea vote was cast by members of neither major party and is highlighted on the compass but not listed. A name links to a profile only for members of the current Congress. A law passed by voice vote or unanimous consent has no member list, and neither does a vote Voteview has not yet recorded.
Committees
The committees the bill was sent to, and what each did with it.
Post Office and Civil Service Committee · House · referred to, reported by
Post Office and Civil Service Committee · Senate · referred to, reported by
Data notes
A committee links to its page only where it exists in the current Congress; older and renamed committees are named without a link.
Timeline
From introduction to signing, newest first: the committees, the floor and the president. 14 actions.
- Aug 9, 1975Became lawBecame law · Signed by President.
- PresidentPresident · Public law 94-82.
- Aug 1, 1975PresidentPresident · Measure presented to President.
- Jul 31, 1975PresidentPresident · Measure enrolled in Senate.
- PresidentPresident · Measure enrolled in House.
- Jul 30, 1975Resolving differencesResolving differences · House agreed to Senate amendment.
- Jul 29, 1975FloorFloor · Measure passed Senate, amended, roll call #352 (58-29).Senate roll call 352
- Jul 25, 1975CommitteeCommittee · Reported by Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee
- Jun 17, 1975CommitteeCommittee · Referred to Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee
- Jun 16, 1975FloorFloor · Measure passed House.
- FloorFloor · Measure called up under motion to suspend rules and pass in House.
- Jun 10, 1975CommitteeCommittee · Reported by House Post Office and Civil Service Committee
- Jan 31, 1975CommitteeCommittee · Referred to House Post Office and Civil Service Committee
- IntroducedIntroduced · Introduced in the House
Data notes
Shows the introduction, each committee and subcommittee step the source dates (referral, hearings, markup, report, discharge), and the floor, conference, presidential and became-law steps. Calendar placements, messages between the chambers, amendments and committee report numbers are not shown for laws before the 108th Congress. Two entries the source lists twice are shown once.
Official record
The bill’s full text and every action, including introduction and committee steps, are on Congress.gov. Data through Oct 7, 2026.