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

  SA 833. Mr. BRAUN (for himself, Mr. Moran, Mr. Toomey, Mr. Hoeven, 
Mr. Sullivan, and Mr. Inhofe) proposed an amendment 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; as 
follows:

       At the end of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO 
                   PROHIBITING THE COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL 
                   QUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 
                   FROM PROMULGATING RULES OR GUIDANCE THAT BANS 
                   FRACKING IN THE UNITED STATES.

       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 the 
     National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and environmental 
     laws and policies, which may include limiting or prohibiting 
     the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality and the 
     Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 
     proposing, finalizing, or implementing a rule or guidance 
     that bans fracking in the United States 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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