[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 198 (Tuesday, December 20, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S9630]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6555. Mr. JOHNSON (for himself, Mr. Braun, Mr. Daines, Ms. Lummis, 
Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Toomey, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Risch, 
Mr. Grassley, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Barrasso, and Mr. Lee) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 6552 proposed by Mr. 
Leahy to the bill H.R. 2617, to amend section 1115 of title 31, United 
States Code, to amend the description of how performance goals are 
achieved, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       On page 6, after line 2, add the following:

     SEC. 7. ELIMINATION OF EARMARKS.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of any 
     division of this Act--
       (1) no amounts shall be made available for a purpose 
     specified in any table relating to congressionally directed 
     spending in the explanatory statement described in section 4 
     (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
     Act), or for any congressionally directed spending in any 
     division of this Act, and each such item of congressionally 
     directed spending is null and void;
       (2) each appropriation under any division of this Act shall 
     be reduced by the amount of any allocation of such 
     appropriation for congressionally directed spending items 
     that is made null and void by paragraph (1); and
       (3) each allocation of an appropriation under any division 
     of this Act shall be reduced by the amount of any further 
     allocation of such allocation of an appropriation for 
     congressionally directed spending items that is made null and 
     void by paragraph (1).
       (b) Report.--The Director of the Office of Management and 
     Budget shall submit to Congress a report indicating the final 
     amount appropriated for each appropriation account for which 
     amounts are made available under any division of this Act and 
     the amount of each allocation of such an appropriation, as 
     reduced in accordance with subsection (a).
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