[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 145 (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6416]
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  SA 3815. Mr. LEE (for himself and Mr. Toomey) proposed an amendment 
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; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title IV, add the following:

     SEC. 4___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT WOULD 
                   CAUSE A NET INCREASE IN OUTLAYS UNLESS THE 
                   DIRECTOR OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE 
                   CERTIFIES THAT INFLATION IS BELOW 3 PERCENT.

       (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 would 
     cause a net increase in outlays relative to the most recently 
     published Congressional Budget Office baseline unless the 
     Director of the Congressional Budget Office certifies (based 
     on the most recent data available to the Director) that 
     inflation, as measured in either the average of the 
     annualized changes in the 3 most recently published monthly 
     reports on the consumer price index for all-urban consumers 
     published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department 
     of Labor, or the previous year's unadjusted annual change in 
     that index, is below 3 percent.
       (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).
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