[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 168 (Wednesday, October 18, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S6585]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1376. Mr. BROWN (for himself, Mr. Bennet, and Mr. Durbin) 
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 
                   INCREASING THE VALUE OF THE EARNED INCOME 
                   CREDIT AND THE CHILD TAX CREDIT FOR WORKING 
                   FAMILIES.

       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 the value of the earned income credit for workers 
     that do not claim children on their tax returns, increasing 
     the value of the child tax credit for the parents of young 
     children, and indexing the child tax credit for inflation, 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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