[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 18 (Monday, February 1, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S429]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3152. Mr. BOOZMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 2953 proposed by Ms. Murkowski to the bill S. 2012, to 
provide for the modernization of the energy policy of the United 
States, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; 
as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ____. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY INSPECTOR GENERAL EXTENDED 
                   VACANCY PREVENTION.

       If the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and 
     Efficiency (referred to in this section as the ``Council'') 
     determines that a vacancy exists at the position of Inspector 
     General of the Office of Inspector General at the Department 
     and the President has not nominated an Inspector General to 
     fill that vacancy by the end of the 210-day period beginning 
     on the date the vacancy began, notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, there shall be transferred from the 
     salaries and expenses account of the White House to the 
     Office of Inspector General account of the Department $20,000 
     for each month during which the Council determines that the 
     President has not nominated an Inspector General to fill that 
     vacancy, to continue on a monthly basis until the President 
     has made the nomination.
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