[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1830]
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SA 606. Mr. DAINES (for himself and Mr. Alexander) 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 AFRICAN
ELEPHANT IVORY.
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 the African Elephant Conservation Act
(16 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.) or the Endangered Species Act of
1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to conserve elephants while
appropriately regulating the United States trade in ivory,
including the import and export of objects containing antique
ivory, 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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