[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 109 (Tuesday, July 14, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S5080]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2245. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 2089 submitted by Mr. Alexander (for himself and Mrs. 
Murray) to the bill S. 1177, to reauthorize the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure that every child achieves; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of the bill, add the following:

     SEC. 1020__. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON SEQUESTRATION.

       It is the Sense of the Senate that--
       (1) the Nation's fiscal challenges are a top priority for 
     Congress, and sequestration, non-strategic, across-the-board 
     budget cuts, remains an unreasonable and inadequate budgeting 
     tool to address the Nation's deficits and debt;
       (2) sequestration relief must be accomplished for fiscal 
     years 2016 and 2017;
       (3) sequestration relief should include equal defense and 
     non-defense relief; and
       (4) sequestration relief should be offset through targeted 
     changes in mandatory and discretionary categories and 
     revenues.
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