[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 48 (Monday, March 23, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1732-S1733]
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  SA 332. Mr. COONS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him 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. __. STATUTORY LIMIT ON PUBLIC DEBT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016.

       (a) Increase in Statutory Limit on Public Debt.--If this 
     resolution sets forth, as the appropriate level of the public 
     debt for fiscal year 2016, an amount that is different

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     from the amount of the statutory limit on the public debt 
     that otherwise would be in effect for fiscal year 2016, the 
     Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate and the 
     Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives shall 
     each introduce a joint resolution increasing or decreasing, 
     as the case may be, the statutory limit on public debt in the 
     form prescribed in subsection (c) and move to proceed to such 
     joint resolution. The motion is highly privileged in the 
     House of Representatives and is privileged in the Senate and 
     is not debatable. The motion is not subject to amendment, or 
     to a motion to postpone, or to a motion to proceed to the 
     consideration of other business. If the Chairman makes such a 
     motion to proceed to the joint resolution, the motion to 
     proceed shall be agreed to with out intervening action or 
     debate.
       (b) Vote on Passage.--
       (1) In general.--Immediately after the Senate or House of 
     Representatives proceeds to a joint resolution under 
     subsection (a), a vote on passage of the joint resolution 
     shall occur without any intervening action or debate. An 
     affirmative vote of a majority of the Members of the House of 
     Representatives or of the Senate, as the case may be, duly 
     chosen and sworn, shall be required for adoption of the joint 
     resolution.
       (2) Amendments.--No amendment to a joint resolution 
     described in subsection (a) shall be in order in the Senate 
     or the House of Representatives.
       (3) Transmittal to other house of congress.--If a joint 
     resolution is adopted under paragraph (1), the engrossed copy 
     shall be signed by the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk 
     of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, and 
     transmitted to the other House of Congress for further 
     legislative action.
       (4) Coordination with action by other house.--If before 
     adopting a joint resolution under paragraph (1), one House 
     receives from the other a joint resolution described in 
     subsection (a)--
       (A) the joint resolution of the other House shall not be 
     referred to a committee; and
       (B) the procedure in the receiving House shall be the same 
     as if no joint resolution had been received from the other 
     House until the vote on passage, when the joint resolution 
     received from the other House shall supplant the joint 
     resolution of the receiving House.
       (c) Joint Resolution.--The matter after the resolving 
     clause in a joint resolution described in subsection (a) 
     shall be as follows: ``That subsection (b) of section 3101 of 
     title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking out the 
     dollar limitation contained in such subsection and inserting 
     `$______