[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 20 (Wednesday, February 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S388-S389]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 424. Mr. LANKFORD 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 end of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO 
                   PROHIBITING FEDERAL AGENCIES FROM USING THE 
                   SOCIAL COST OF GREENHOUSE GASES UNLESS THE 
                   AGENCY COMPLIES WITH CIRCULAR A-4.

       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 each Federal agency from using the social cost of 
     carbon, the social cost of methane, the social cost of 
     nitrous oxide, or the social cost of any other greenhouse gas 
     in any regulation unless the calculation complies with the 
     requirements

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     of the document of the Office of Management and Budget 
     entitled ``Circular A-4'' and dated September 17, 2003, 
     regarding the use of discount rates and the consideration of 
     only domestic costs and benefits of the activity in 
     developing the regulation 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 2021 through 2025 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2021 through 2030.
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