[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1795]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 363. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. Reid, and Mrs. Feinstein) 
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 
                   MODERNIZING AND UPDATING FOOD SAFETY OVERSIGHT 
                   WITHIN THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION.

       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 modernizing and updating food safety oversight 
     within the Food and Drug Administration, which may include 
     increased investments in inspection modernization and 
     training, education and technical assistance for industry 
     stakeholders, implementing a National Integrated Food Safety 
     System to strengthen collaboration and improve coordination 
     with State and local food safety regulators, expanded 
     activities to improve the safety and reliability of imported 
     foods, and other crucial investments, 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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