[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 51 (Thursday, March 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2075-S2076]
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SA 1070. Mr. BLUMENTHAL 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 PROTECTION
OF WORKERS AND CONSUMERS FROM CORPORATE
MALFEASANCE.
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 protecting workers and consumers from corporate
malfeasance, which may include holding individual corporate
executives liable for knowingly concealing corporate
practices or products that pose a significant risk of death
or serious injury to
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workers or consumers, 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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