[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 145 (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6333]
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SA 3264. Mr. CRUZ 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 end of title III, add the following:
SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
ADDRESSING THE LONG-TERM FISCAL PROBLEMS OF THE
UNITED STATES.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may
revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this
resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions,
amendments, motions, or conference reports relating to
authorizing the creation of a bipartisan task force to
examine the long term fiscal imbalances facing the United
States, which may include directing the bipartisan task force
to report, with the majority approval of each participating
party, legislative recommendations to address those
imbalances and providing legislative fast track procedures to
ensure a vote on the legislative recommendations, by the
amount provided in that legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2022
through 2026 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2022
through 2031.
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