[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 130 (Wednesday, July 31, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S5260]
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  SA 934. Mr. GARDNER (for himself and Mr. Lee) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 3877, to amend the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, to establish 
a congressional budget for fiscal years 2020 and 2021, to temporarily 
suspend the debt limit, and for other purposes; which was ordered to 
lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 302. REDUCING EXCESSIVE GOVERNMENT.

       (a) Definitions.--In this section--
       (1) the term ``agency'' has the meaning given the term 
     ``Executive agency'' under section 105 of title 5, United 
     States Code;
       (2) the term ``amount of the increase in the debt limit'' 
     means--
       (A) the dollar amount of the increase in the debt limit 
     specified in the Act increasing the debt limit; or
       (B) in the case of a suspension of the debt limit, the 
     amount by which the Secretary of the Treasury estimates the 
     debt limit shall be increased at the end of the period of the 
     suspension, which the Secretary shall submit to Congress on 
     the date of enactment of such an Act, or in the case of 
     section 301 of this Act, as soon as is practicable after the 
     date of enactment of this Act;
       (3) the term ``debt limit'' means the limitation imposed by 
     section 3101(b) of title 31, United States Code;
       (4) the term ``direct cost of Federal regulation'' means 
     all costs incurred by, and expenditures required of, the 
     Federal Government in issuing and enforcing Federal 
     regulations, rules, statements, and legislation;
       (5) the term ``joint resolution'' means a joint 
     resolution--
       (A) reported by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 
     or the House of Representatives in accordance with subsection 
     (d)(3);
       (B) which does not have a preamble;
       (C) the title of which is as follows: ``Joint resolution 
     relating to repeal of costly rules''; and
       (D) the matter after the resolving clause of which is as 
     follows: ``That the following rules shall have no force or 
     effect: _______