[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 168 (Wednesday, October 18, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S6562]
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SA 1280. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself and Mr. Udall) 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___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO HELPING
PROVIDE INCREASED VOTING SECURITY FOR THE
VOTING SYSTEMS OF THE UNITED STATES TO PROTECT
AGAINST INTRUSION, THEFT, MANIPULATION, AND
DELETION OF VOTER REGISTRATION DATA, BALLOTS,
OR VOTES CAST, AND TO PREVENT CYBER ATTACKS
FROM MALICIOUS COMPUTER HACKERS.
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
securing State election systems from intrusion, theft,
manipulation, and deletion of voter registration data,
ballots, or votes cast, and to prevent cyber attacks from
malicious computer hackers 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 2018 through 2022 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2018 through 2027.
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