[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 169 (Thursday, October 19, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S6699]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1562. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself, Ms. Collins, Ms. Baldwin, and Mr. 
Booker) 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 
                   PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF 
                   SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER IDENTITY.

       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 discrimination, such as in employment, federally 
     funded programs and activities, public accommodations, 
     education, housing, jury selection, or access to credit, 
     against individuals on the basis of sexual orientation or 
     gender identity, 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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