[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 48 (Monday, March 23, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1730]
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  SA 322. Mr. McCONNELL (for Mr. Portman (for himself, Mr. Blunt, Mr. 
Cotton, and Mr. Hatch)) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by Mr. McConnell to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting 
forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for 
fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for 
fiscal years 2017 through 2025; which was ordered to lie on the table; 
as follows:

         At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE 
                   EMPOWERMENT OF STATES TO PROTECT CITIZENS OF 
                   THE STATE FROM DAMAGING REGULATIONS OF THE 
                   ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY PURSUANT TO THE 
                   CLEAN AIR ACT.

         The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 
     may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution 
     for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, 
     amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports 
     relating to providing any State the option of opting out of 
     the requirements of section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (42 
     U.S.C. 7411(d)) if a Governor or legislative body of a State 
     determines that the requirements of that section would 
     increase retail electricity prices with a disproportionate 
     impact on low-income or fixed-income households, present a 
     risk to electric reliability, impair investments in existing 
     electric generating capacity, impair manufacturing and other 
     important sectors of the economy of the State, decrease 
     employment, or decrease State and local revenues, by the 
     amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, 
     provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue 
     and would not increase the deficit over either the period of 
     the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of 
     the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.
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