[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 15, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S4002]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4704. Mrs. FISCHER (for herself and Mr. Grassley) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 4685 proposed by Mr. 
McConnell (for Mr. Shelby (for himself and Ms. Mikulski)) to the bill 
H.R. 2578, making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and 
Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2016, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title II, insert the following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available for the immediate Office of the Deputy Attorney 
     General under the heading ``salaries and expenses'' under the 
     heading ``General Administration'' under this title may be 
     obligated or expended until the date on which the Deputy 
     Attorney General submits to Congress a plan for the 
     Department of Justice to monitor the effects of the licensing 
     of the cultivation, processing, distribution, and retail sale 
     of marijuana or marijuana products under State law on the 
     marijuana enforcement policies of the Federal Government, 
     including preventing the distribution of marijuana to minors, 
     preventing the diversion of marijuana to States where it 
     remains illegal under State law, and preventing the 
     exacerbation of public health consequences associated with 
     marijuana use, in accordance with the 2013 marijuana 
     enforcement policy guidance of the Department of Justice, 
     which shall include--
       (1) a description of the various data the Deputy Attorney 
     General will use to monitor such effects and the limitations 
     of this data;
       (2) a description of how the Deputy Attorney General will 
     use the information sources in its monitoring efforts to help 
     inform decisions on whether States are effectively protecting 
     the marijuana enforcement priorities of the Federal 
     Government, including the use, if any, of pre-established 
     metrics; and
       (3) a description of how the Deputy Attorney General will 
     decide whether a State's failure to effectively protect these 
     priorities necessitates Federal action to challenge a State's 
     regulatory system.
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