[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1912]
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SA 677. Mr. FLAKE (for himself and Mr. Roberts) 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 PREVENTING
POLITICAL TARGETING BY THE INTERNAL REVENUE
SERVICE OF INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIAL WELFARE
ORGANIZATIONS EXERCISING FREE-SPEECH RIGHTS.
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 preventing political targeting by the Internal
Revenue Service of individuals and social welfare
organizations exercising free-speech rights, which may
include maintaining current standards and definitions in
defining political activity for the purpose of determining
the tax status of individuals and social welfare
organizations, 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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