[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1799]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 393. Mr. COONS (for himself, Mr. Graham, Ms. Ayotte, Ms. Baldwin, 
and Mrs. Gillibrand) 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 
                   EMPHASIZING MANUFACTURING IN ENGINEERING 
                   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 emphasizing manufacturing in engineering 
     programs, which may include directing the National Institute 
     of Standards and Technology, in coordination with other 
     appropriate Federal agencies including the Department of 
     Defense, Department of Energy, and National Science 
     Foundation, to designate United States manufacturing 
     universities, 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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