[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1828]
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SA 591. Mr. MANCHIN 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 end of title III, add the following:
SEC. 3__. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO REFORM THE LIFELINE
PROGRAM AND REDUCE FRAUD.
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 providing sufficient funding for the Federal
Communications Commission to modernize the Lifeline program,
which may include fundamental reforms to reduce waste, fraud,
and abuse, by the amounts provided in such legislation for
that purpose, 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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