[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1956]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 962. Mr. DURBIN 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 end of title III, add the following:
SEC. 3__. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO ENHANCE PROSECUTION
OF THOSE WHO TRANSFER A FIREARM KNOWING OR
HAVING REASONABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE THAT SUCH
FIREARM WILL BE USED TO COMMIT AN OFFENSE UNDER
CHAPTER 77 OF TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE,
(RELATING TO PEONAGE, SLAVERY, AND TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS).
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 prosecuting those who supply firearms to human
traffickers, which may include enhancing the prosecution of
those who transfer firearms knowing or having reasonable
cause to believe that such firearms will be used to commit a
crime of human trafficking or increasing penalties for such
transfers, 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.
______