[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1937-S1938]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 842. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. Coons) 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; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO CONSUMER 
                   FINANCIAL PROTECTION.

       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 consumer financial protection, which may include 
     measures ensuring that the Bureau of Consumer Financial 
     Protection has authority and autonomy to continue to protect 
     consumers from predatory lending, misleading or abusive 
     behavior in the financial marketplace, or other unscrupulous 
     practices, 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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