[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 21 (Thursday, February 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S545-S546]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 859. Mr. WARNER (for himself and Mr. Portman) 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 PROMOTING 
                   EXPANDED AFFORDABLE BROADBAND ACCESS THROUGH 
                   STATE AND LOCAL PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT BROADBAND 
                   ADOPTION AND NEW DEPLOYMENTS.

       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 
     promoting expanded broadband access during the COVID-19 
     public health emergency through programs administered by 
     State and local governments to support broadband adoption and 
     new deployments that ensure that not less than 95 percent of 
     individuals in the United States have access to affordable 
     high-speed internet access with a download speed of not less 
     than

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     25 megabits per second and an upload speed of not less than 
     10 megabits per second 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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