[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 51 (Thursday, March 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S2078]
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SA 1086. Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Sessions, and Mr.
Brown) 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 PROTECTING
AMERICAN WORKERS.
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 the wages and employment of United
States workers, which may include measures to require
employers to recruit or retain qualified United States
workers before petitioning for H-1B foreign guest workers, 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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