[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 20 (Wednesday, February 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S356]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 210. Mr. BURR (for himself, Mr. Scott, of South Carolina, and Mr. 
Crapo) 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 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 HINDERING THE COVID-19 
                   RESPONSE AND DELAYING THE AVAILABILITY OF 
                   COVID-19 COUNTERMEASURES.

       (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 would 
     hinder the COVID-19 response by delaying the availability of 
     vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics; slow the ethical 
     research and development of new tests, treatments, and 
     vaccines to combat COVID-19 and new variants of the virus; 
     and limit the ability of States to respond to the pandemic.
       (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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