EFFECTIVE DATE OF AND CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OF RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT.

SEC. 401. EFFECTIVE DATE OF AND CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OF RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. (a) Section 225(i) of Public Law 90–206 is amended to read as follows: “(i) Effective date of and congressional approval of recommendations of the President— “(1) Within sixty calendar days of the submission of the President’s recommendations to the Congress, each House shall conduct a separate vote on each of the recommendations of the President with respect to the offices and positions described in subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), and (D) of subsection (f) of this section, and shall thereby approve or disapprove the recommendations of the President regarding each such subparagraph. Such votes shall be recorded so as to reflect the votes of each individual Member thereon. If both Houses approve by majority vote the recommendations pertaining to the offices and positions described in any such subparagraph, the recommendations shall become effective for the offices and positions covered by such subparagraph at the beginning of the first pay period which begins after the thirtieth day following the approval of the recommendation by the second House to approve the recommendation. “(2) Any part of the recommendations of the President may, in accordance with express provisions of such recommendations, 91 STAT. 46 be made operative on a date later than the date on which such recommendations otherwise are to take effect.”. (b) Section 225(j) of Public Law 90–206 is amended by inserting immediately after “subsection (b) (2) and (3) of this section shall” the language “, if approved by the Congress as provided in subsection (i),”.