[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1910]
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  SA 663. Mr. COTTON 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 
                   PROHIBITING THE USE OF FUNDS FOR NEGOTIATING 
                   WITH PRESIDENT OF SYRIA BASHAR AL ASSAD AND THE 
                   GOVERNMENT OF SYRIA TO RESOLVE THE SYRIAN CIVIL 
                   WAR AND COMBAT THE ISLAMIC STATE.

       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 use of funds for negotiating with 
     President of Syria Bashar al Assad and the Government of 
     Syria to resolve the Syrian civil war and combat the Islamic 
     State 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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