[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 145 (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6347]
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  SA 3362. Mr. WICKER 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 TAXPAYER FUNDING FOR 
                   ABORTION.

       (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 
     provides taxpayer funding for abortion.
       (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).
       (c) Legislation That Provides Taxpayer Funding for 
     Abortion.--For purposes of subsection (a), the term 
     ``provides taxpayer funding for abortion'' with respect to 
     legislation means any provision of a bill, joint resolution, 
     motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or 
     conference report, that would--
       (1) authorize or appropriate Federal funds without 
     prohibiting such funds, and funds in any trust fund into 
     which such funds are authorized or appropriated by Federal 
     law, from being expended for any abortion or for any health 
     benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion;
       (2) cause an increase in outlays or reduction in revenues 
     attributable to any credit allowed under the internal revenue 
     laws with respect to, coverage under a qualified health plan 
     offered through an Exchange established pursuant to title I 
     of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, (Public 
     Law 111-148) continuation coverage, or any other coverage, 
     without excluding, for purposes of such credit, any coverage 
     that includes coverage of abortion; or
       (3) provide for the establishment of any public health 
     insurance option administered by the Federal government or a 
     State or local government without excluding coverage of 
     abortion under such public option.
       (d) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect 
     to funding for an abortion--
       (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or 
     incest; or
       (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical 
     disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a 
     life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from 
     the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a 
     physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an 
     abortion is performed.
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