[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1912]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 679. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Cotton, and Mr. 
Hatch) 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 THE 
                   EMPOWERMENT OF STATES TO PROTECT CITIZENS OF 
                   THE STATE FROM DAMAGING REGULATIONS OF THE 
                   ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY PURSUANT TO THE 
                   CLEAN AIR ACT.

       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 any State the option of opting out of 
     the requirements of section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (42 
     U.S.C. 7411(d)) if a Governor or legislative body of a State 
     determines that the requirements of that section would 
     increase retail electricity prices with a disproportionate 
     impact on low-income or fixed-income households, or present a 
     risk to electric reliability, or impair investments in 
     existing electric generating capacity, or impair 
     manufacturing and other important sectors of the economy of 
     the State, or decrease employment, or decrease State and 
     local revenues, 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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