[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1806-S1807]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 441. Ms. STABENOW (for herself and Mr. Merkley) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by her 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 THE OIL 
                   SPILL LIABILITY TRUST FUND.

       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

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     the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to oil 
     spill liability, which may include changes to current law to 
     equalize the per barrel Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund taxes 
     for all oil sources, a permanent extension of such taxes, or 
     elimination of tax deductions for settlements or judgments 
     relating to oil spills, 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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