[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 77 (Tuesday, May 19, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3085-S3086]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1397. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 1221 proposed by Mr. Hatch to the bill H.R. 1314, to 
amend

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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:

       On page 100, between lines 20 and 21, insert the following:
       (7) For agreements that undermine states and local 
     governments.--The trade authorities procedures shall not 
     apply to an implementing bill submitted with respect to a 
     trade agreement entered into under section 103(b) that 
     includes provisions that could subject policies of State or 
     local governments in the United States to claims by foreign 
     investors that would be decided outside the United States 
     legal system.
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