[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 48 (Monday, March 23, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1734]
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  SA 343. Mr. COONS (for himself and Mr. Bennet) 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. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PRESERVING 
                   MANDATORY APPROPRIATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL 
                   CONSERVATION PROGRAMS.

       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 the importance of preserving mandatory 
     appropriations for agricultural conservation programs, which 
     may include financial and technical assistance, conservation 
     easements, and working land management assistance, by the 
     amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, 
     provided that such legislation 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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