[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 20 (Wednesday, February 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S347-S348]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 154. Mr. HOEVEN (for himself and Mr. Daines) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution 
S. Con. Res. 5, setting forth the congressional budget for the United 
States Government for fiscal year 2021 and setting forth the

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appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2022 through 2030; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title IV, add the following:

     SEC. 4___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT REDUCES 
                   THE HOURS OF OPERATION OR PERMANENTLY CLOSES 
                   ANY PORT OF ENTRY ALONG THE NORTHERN BORDER.

       (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, 
     amendment between the Houses, or conference report that 
     reduces the hours of operation or permanently closes any port 
     of entry located along the border between the United States 
     and Canada.
       (b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or 
     suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
     fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative 
     vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly 
     chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of 
     the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under 
     subsection (a).
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