[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 171 (Tuesday, October 29, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S6249]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1226. Mr. MARKEY (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Booker, Mrs. 
Feinstein, and Ms. Harris) submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 948 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 
3055, making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and 
Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place in title I of division C, insert 
     the following:


               oil and gas program lease sale requirement

       Sec. 1__. 
       None of the funds made available to the Secretary of the 
     Interior by this or any other Act may be used to conduct a 
     lease sale pursuant to section 20001(c)(1) of Public Law 115-
     97 (16 U.S.C. 3143 note) that does not contain a national 
     minimum acceptable bid amount sufficient to produce Federal 
     receipts to the Treasury, net of any State share, of not less 
     than an amount equal to 50 percent of the amount required by 
     section 2001(b) of H. Con. Res. 71, the concurrent resolution 
     on the budget for fiscal year 2018, as agreed to on October 
     26, 2017.
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