{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20141212131916/http://chaffetz.house.gov/press-release/chaffetz-helps-usher-border-patrol-agent-pay-reform-through-house-unanimous-support", "Chaffetz Helps Usher Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform through House with Unanimous Support", "2014-12-10", "2014", "2014-12", "Republican", "House", "UT", "Jason Chaffetz", "C001076", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2013 Today, S. 1691, the Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act of 2014, unanimously passed the House by voice vote. Congressman Chaffetz sponsored its companion bill, H.R. 3463, in the House. This legislation now heads to the president to be signed into law.\n\t\t\t\t\u201cBorder Patrol agents have a difficult job. It\u2019s amazing what they do and how they do it. This bipartisan legislation will create a consistent and reliable pay system within the Border Patrol that these agents can rely on. Creating a new pay scale is a long term solution that will iron out the kinks of the current system through old-fashioned planning and time management. I applaud my colleagues in the House for passing this common-sense, bipartisan legislation,\u201d said Chaffetz.\n\t\t\t\tThis legislation aims to fix inadequacies in Administratively Uncontrollable Overtime (AUO) \u2013 the overtime component within the Border Patrol pay system \u2013 by creating a consistent and reliable pay system. These reforms will also enhance border security and save taxpayers more than $1 billion over 10 years according to the Congressional Budget Office.\n\t\t\t\tS. 1691 was cosponsored by Senators Jon Tester (D-MT) and John McCain (R-AZ) and unanimously passed the Senate earlier this year.\n\t\t\t\tWatch Congressman Chaffetz speak on the House floor about Border Pay Reform here.\n\t\t\t\tBackground\n\t\t\t\tThe Border Patrol pay system \u2013 established almost 40 years ago \u2013 is different from the system covering other federal law enforcement agencies such as the FBI or Secret Service. In 2013 a report was released by the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) detailed the misuse of the AUO system by agents in the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Situation Room.\n\t\t\t\tThe Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act will address this problem by replacing AUO with three options: work 100 hours per pay period and receive a 25 percent differential, work 90 hours and receive a 12.5 percent differential, or work no overtime (80 hours per pay period). Additional unscheduled overtime will be treated as compensatory time off. Scheduled overtime will be paid.\n\t\t\t\tThe Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act is strongly endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council and Border Patrol Agents nationwide.\n\t\t\t\t###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://web.archive.org/web/20141212131916/http://chaffetz.house.gov/press-release/chaffetz-helps-usher-border-patrol-agent-pay-reform-through-house-unanimous-support"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4946709852665663, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}