[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 5 (Monday, January 9, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S160]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 44. Mr. FLAKE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 3, setting forth the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 
2017 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 2018 through 2026; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the end of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO DROUGHT 
                   PREVENTION.

       The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 
     may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution 
     for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, 
     amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports 
     relating to updating flood control operations, water 
     conservation in the Colorado River Basin, invasive riparian 
     species control, assisting the States in carrying out drought 
     prevention plans, watershed protection programs, or the 
     authority of the Secretary of the Interior to designate funds 
     for rural water projects and Indian irrigation and water 
     settlement projects by the amounts provided in such 
     legislation for those purposes, provided that such 
     legislation would not increase the deficit over either the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2017 through 2021 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2017 through 2026.
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