[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S290]
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SA 159. Mr. LEE 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 FUNDS RELATING TO
ASSISTING WORKING FAMILIES AND CHILDREN.
(a) Income Support.--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 the Social
Services Block Grant (SSBG), the Temporary Assistance for
Needy Families (TANF) program, child support enforcement
programs, or other assistance to working families, or to
increase work participation rates under TANF, without raising
new revenue, 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.
(b) Housing Assistance.--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 housing
assistance, which may include working family rental
assistance, or assistance provided through the Housing Trust
Fund, or measures consolidating public housing authorities,
or measures to create or increase work requirements for
Section 8 voucher and public housing assistance recipients,
without raising new revenue, 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.
(c) Child Welfare.--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 child welfare
programs, which may include the Federal foster care payment
system, without raising new revenue, 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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