Senate passes resolution to withhold members' paychecks during government shutdowns

The Senate passed a resolution Thursday that will halt members' paychecks during a government shutdown, a move intended to motivate them to pass funding bills to keep the country fully operational and federal workers paid. 

The measure is sponsored by Louisiana GOP Sen. John Kennedy, who argues senators need to face the same delays in pay like thousands of federal workers did during the last two shutdowns that happened this year, Fox News reported. 

The resolution applies only to members of the Senate and won't need to be approved by the House or signed by the president. 

If triggered by a failure to fund federal agencies by the deadline, the senators' pay would be put into an escrow account, meaning there would be no loss in pay. The senators just wouldn't receive any of it until the shutdown ends. 

The resolution won't go into effect until after the upcoming election cycle in November.