[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 48 (Monday, March 23, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1734]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 345. Mr. DURBIN (for himself and 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. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO INCREASING 
                   FUNDING FOR FEDERAL INVESTMENTS IN BIOMEDICAL 
                   AND BASIC SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.

       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 increasing funding for Federal investments in 
     scientific research, which may include helping find cures for 
     life-threatening and chronic illnesses, increasing our 
     national security, supporting new energy technologies, or 
     supporting innovative solutions that advance private sector 
     efforts to grow the economy and create millions of middle 
     jobs, 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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