[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1817]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 515. Mr. VITTER (for himself, Mr. Cruz, 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; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO REQUIRING 
                   THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO ALLOW STATES TO OPT 
                   OUT OF COMMON CORE WITHOUT PENALTY.

       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 prohibiting the Federal Government from 
     mandating, incentivizing, or coercing States to adopt the 
     Common Core State Standards or any other specific academic 
     standards, instructional content, curricula, assessments, or 
     programs of instruction and allowing States to opt out of the 
     Common Core State Standards without penalty, 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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