[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1795]
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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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