[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 76 (Monday, May 18, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2979-S2980]
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SA 1271. Mr. BROWN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1221 proposed by Mr. Hatch to the bill H.R. 1314, to amend
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an
administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt
status of certain organizations; which was ordered to lie on the table;
as follows:
Strike section 106(b)(2) and insert the following:
(2) Procedures for considering resolutions.--(A) Procedural
disapproval resolutions--
(i) in the House of Representatives--
(I) may be introduced by any Member of the House;
(II) shall be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
and, in addition, to the Committee on Rules;
(III) may not be amended by either Committee; and
(IV) shall be discharged from both such Committees on the
day on which not less than one-third of the Members of the
House become cosponsors of the resolution; and
(ii) in the Senate--
(I) may be introduced by any Member of the Senate;
(II) shall be referred to the Committee on Finance;
(III) may not be amended; and
(IV) shall be discharged from the Committee on Finance on
the day on which not less than one-third of the Members of
the Senate become cosponsors of the resolution.
(B) The provisions of subsections (d) and (e) of section
152 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2192) (relating to
the floor consideration of certain resolutions in the House
and Senate) apply to a procedural disapproval resolution
introduced with respect to a trade agreement if no other
procedural disapproval resolution with respect to that trade
agreement has previously been reported in that House of
Congress by the Committee on Ways and Means or the Committee
on Finance, as the case may be, and if no resolution
described in clause (ii) of section 5(b)(3)(B) with respect
to that trade agreement has been reported in that House of
Congress by the Committee on Ways and Means or the Committee
on Finance, as the case may be, pursuant to the procedures
set forth in clauses (iii) through (vii) of such section.
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