[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 145 (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6413-S6414]
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SA 3800. 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:
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At the end of title III, add the following:
SEC. 3004. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE
PRESUMPTIVE LAWFULNESS OF PRE-COVID-19 VOTING
MEASURES.
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
protecting election integrity, which may include preventing
or limiting the Department of Justice from presuming the
unlawfulness of the re-adoption of voting laws that were in
place immediately prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, 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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