[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 169 (Thursday, October 19, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S6664]
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SA 1417. Mr. FRANKEN 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
REBUILDING RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE IN PUERTO
RICO AND THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS.
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
rebuilding infrastructure in Puerto Rico and the United
States Virgin Islands destroyed or damaged by Hurricanes Irma
and Maria in a resilient and sustainable way that reduces the
threat from future disasters, including rebuilding the
electric grid and investing in distributed clean energy
technologies such as solar, wind, energy efficiency, and
battery storage as targeted in local clean energy
legislation, 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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