[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 51 (Thursday, March 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S2062]
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SA 988. Mr. FRANKEN (for himself and Mr. Schatz) 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 BOLSTERING
THE RESILIENCE OF COMMUNITIES AND INDUSTRIES IN
THE UNITED STATES AGAINST THE IMPACTS OF A
CHANGING CLIMATE.
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 initiatives to bolster the resilience of
communities, the electric grid, and the fishing, agriculture,
and forestry industries against the impacts of human-induced
climate change and associated events, including sea level
rise, the loss of sea ice, changes in the distribution of
permafrost, extreme weather events, ocean acidification, and
an increase in the duration, size, and intensity of wildfire
and droughts, 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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