[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 145 (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6340]
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SA 3312. Mr. LEE 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 A PROVISION IN LEGISLATION
THAT WOULD HARM RIGHTS TO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
(a) Point of Order.--
(1) In general.--In the Senate, it shall not be in order to
consider a provision in a bill, joint resolution, motion,
amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report
that would harm rights to religious freedom during the period
of fiscal years 2021 through 2025.
(2) Point of order sustained.--If a point of order is made
by a Senator against a provision described in paragraph (1),
and the point of order is sustained by the Chair, that
provision shall be stricken from the measure and may not be
offered as an amendment from the floor.
(b) Form of the Point of Order.--A point of order under
subsection (a)(1) may be raised by a Senator as provided in
section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2
U.S.C. 644(e)).
(c) Conference Reports.--When the Senate is considering a
conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in
relation to, a bill or joint resolution, upon a point of
order being made by any Senator pursuant to subsection
(a)(1), and such point of order being sustained, such
material contained in such conference report or House
amendment shall be stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to
consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from
its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur
in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case
may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that
portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the
case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion in the Senate
shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order
is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment
derived from such conference report by operation of this
subsection), no further amendment shall be in order.
(d) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal.--In the Senate, this
section may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative
vote of two-thirds of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An
affirmative vote of two-thirds of 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 this
section.
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