[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 145 (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6309]
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  SA 3139. Mr. LEE (for himself and Mr. Toomey) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. 
Res. 14, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States 
Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate 
budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031; which was ordered 
to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title IV, add the following:

     SEC. 4___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST INCREASING NET SPENDING 
                   UNLESS THE DIRECTOR OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET 
                   OFFICE CERTIFIES THAT INFLATION IS BELOW 3 
                   PERCENT.

       (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, 
     amendment between the Houses, or conference report that 
     increases net spending unless the Director of the 
     Congressional Budget Office certifies (based on the most 
     recent data available to the Director) that inflation, as 
     measured in either the average of the annualized changes in 
     the 3 most recently published monthly reports on the consumer 
     price index for all-urban consumers published by the Bureau 
     of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor, or the 
     previous year's unadjusted annual change in that index, is 
     below 3 percent.
       (b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or 
     suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
     fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative 
     vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly 
     chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of 
     the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under 
     subsection (a).
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