[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 21 (Thursday, February 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S541-S542]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 829. Mr. WYDEN 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 BENEFIT 
                   TIMELINESS AND ACCURACY IN THE PANDEMIC 
                   UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

       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 
     benefit timeliness and accuracy in the Pandemic Unemployment 
     Assistance program, which may include preventing organized 
     fraud and identity theft in the Pandemic Unemployment 
     Assistance program, prioritizing benefit timeliness for 
     eligible Pandemic Unemployment Assistance

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     claimants, and ensuring that eligible claimants do not face 
     unreasonable delays or improper denials of benefits due to 
     any new measures to prevent organized fraud and identity 
     theft 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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