[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 168 (Wednesday, October 18, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S6544]
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SA 1156. Mr. McCAIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1116 proposed by Mr. Enzi to the concurrent resolution H.
Con. Res. 71, establishing the congressional budget for the United
States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of title III, add the following:
SEC. 3__. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO IMPROVING
FOREST HEALTH.
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,
and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or
more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between
the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to
increasing timber production from Federal land and providing
bridge funding to counties and other units of local
government until timber production levels increase,
decreasing forest hazardous fuel loads, improving stewardship
contracting, or reforming the process of budgeting for
wildfire suppression operations by the amounts provided in
such legislation for those purposes, provided that such
legislation would not raise new revenue and would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of
fiscal years 2018 through 2022 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2018 through 2027.
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