[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1802]
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SA 412. Mr. ROUNDS (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) 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; as
follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PREVENT CERTAIN
CLOSED-DOOR SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS.
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 environmental laws and citizen suits, which may
include prohibitions on the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency and the Director of the
United States Fish and Wildlife Service entering into any
closed-door settlement agreement without seeking approval
from all State, county, and local governments that would be
directly impacted by the agreement, 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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