[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 169 (Thursday, October 19, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S6690]
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SA 1541. Mr. SCHATZ (for himself, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Udall, and
Mr. Coons) 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 DEFENDING
BROADCAST LICENSEES AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT.
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
prohibiting the Federal Communications Commission from
revoking or otherwise impairing, directly or indirectly, a
broadcast license issued by the Commission simply because the
President, or another member of the Administration of the
President, is dissatisfied by the news content aired by the
licensee about the President or the Administration 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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