[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 145 (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6413]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3799. 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. 3004. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO 
                   INVESTIGATING COVID-RELATED NURSING HOME DEATHS 
                   IN NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, MICHIGAN, AND NEW 
                   JERSEY.

       The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 
     may 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 relating to the 
     civil rights of American senior citizens, which may include 
     enabling the Department of Justice to investigate nursing 
     home deaths in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New 
     Jersey, by the amounts provided in such 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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