[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1814-S1815]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 497. Mr. INHOFE (for himself, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Daines, 
Mr. Hatch, and Mr. Rounds) submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S.

[[Page S1815]]

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. ___. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO 
                   PROTECTING JOBS BY PREVENTING FEDERAL AGENCIES 
                   FROM OVERRIDING EFFORTS BY STATES TO CONSERVE 
                   SPECIES.

       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 amending any statute governing the protection of 
     any species from extinction, which may include deferring 
     conservation planning and implementation to States and units 
     of local government, unless the efforts of the States and 
     units of local government are determined to be inadequate for 
     species conservation by the amounts provided in such 
     legislation for those purposes, provided that such 
     legislation would not raise new revenue and 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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