[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 145 (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6345]
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SA 3348. Mr. BRAUN 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-REDUCTION RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
REDUCING IMPROPER PAYMENTS.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may--
(1) 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 that achieve
savings by eliminating or reducing improper payments and use
such savings to reduce the deficit by the amounts provided in
such legislation for those purposes; and
(2) make adjustments, in an amount equal to the total
amount of deficit reduction achieved under paragraph (1), to
the pay-as-you-go ledger over 6 and 11 years to ensure that
the deficit reduction achieved under paragraph (1) is used
only for deficit reduction.
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