[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1829]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 602. Mr. DURBIN (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein) 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. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO 
                   ESTABLISHING A SINGLE FOOD AGENCY.

       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 
     related to food safety, which may include creating a single 
     independent Federal food safety agency to implement Federal 
     food safety law, including inspections, enforcement, 
     standards-setting, and research or consolidating all the 
     authorities for food safety inspections into a single agency 
     to benefit both consumers and industry by preventing food 
     borne illness and limiting costly recalls, 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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