[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 20 (Wednesday, February 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S402-S403]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 505. Mr. HAGERTY 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:


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       At the end of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ENSURING 
                   THAT THE UNITED STATES CONTINUES TO SUPPORT, 
                   WITH ALL INSTRUMENTS OF NATIONAL POWER AND 
                   INFLUENCE, THE VISION OF A FREE AND OPEN INDO-
                   PACIFIC, A VISION FIRST COINED BY THEN-PRIME 
                   MINISTER OF JAPAN SHINZO ABE IN 2016, A VISION 
                   IN WHICH ALL COUNTRIES PROSPER SIDE BY SIDE AS 
                   SOVEREIGN, INDEPENDENT STATES, A VISION WHICH 
                   PROMOTES FREE, FAIR, AND RECIPROCAL TRADE, OPEN 
                   INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENTS, GOOD GOVERNANCE, AND 
                   FREEDOM OF THE SEAS AS GOALS SHARED BY ALL WHO 
                   WISH TO PROSPER IN A FREE AND OPEN FUTURE, A 
                   VISION WHICH IS BASED ON VALUES THAT HAVE 
                   UNDERPINNED PEACE AND PROSPERITY IN THE INDO-
                   PACIFIC FOR GENERATIONS, AND A VISION WHICH IS 
                   SHARED WITH BILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN MORE THAN 35 
                   COUNTRIES AND ECONOMIES.

       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 
     ensuring that the United States continues to support, with 
     all instruments of national power and influence, the vision 
     of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific, a vision first coined by 
     then-Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe in 2016, a vision in 
     which all countries prosper side by side as sovereign, 
     independent states, a vision which promotes free, fair, and 
     reciprocal trade, open investment environments, good 
     governance, and freedom of the seas as goals shared by all 
     who wish to prosper in a free and open future, a vision which 
     is based on values that have underpinned peace and prosperity 
     in the Indo-Pacific for generations, and a vision which is 
     shared with billions of people in more than 35 countries and 
     economies, 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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