[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 1038]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 3. Mr. JOHANNS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 223, to modernize the air traffic control system, 
improve the safety, reliability, and availability of transportation by 
air in the United States, provide modernization of the air traffic 
control system, reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration, and 
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. REPEAL OF EXPANSION OF INFORMATION REPORTING 
                   REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) In General.--Section 9006 of the Patient Protection and 
     Affordable Care Act, and the amendments made thereby, are 
     hereby repealed; and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall 
     be applied as if such section, and amendments, had never been 
     enacted.
       (b) Rescission of Unspent Federal Funds to Offset Loss in 
     Revenues.--
       (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, of all available unobligated funds, $39,000,000,000 in 
     appropriated discretionary funds are hereby rescinded.
       (2) Implementation.--The Director of the Office of 
     Management and Budget shall determine and identify from which 
     appropriation accounts the rescission under paragraph (1) 
     shall apply and the amount of such rescission that shall 
     apply to each such account. Not later than 60 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office 
     of Management and Budget shall submit a report to the 
     Secretary of the Treasury and Congress of the accounts and 
     amounts determined and identified for rescission under the 
     preceding sentence.
       (3) Exception.--This subsection shall not apply to the 
     unobligated funds of the Department of Defense or the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs.   
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  SA 4. Mr. McCAIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 223, to modernize the air traffic control system, 
improve the safety, reliability, and availability of transportation by 
air in the United States, provide modernization of the air traffic 
control system, reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration, and 
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       Beginning on page 128, strike line 5 and all that follows 
     through page 141, line 9, and insert the following:

     SEC. 411. REPEAL OF ESSENTIAL AIR SERVICE PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 417 of title 49, 
     United States Code, is repealed.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--Title 49, United State Code, is 
     further amended--
       (1) in section 329(b)(1), by striking ``except that'' and 
     all the follows through the semicolon;
       (2) in section 40109(f)(3)(B), by striking ``, including 
     the minimum'' and all that follows through ``this title'';
       (3) in section 40117(e)(2), by striking subparagraph (B) 
     and redesignating subparagraphs (C) through (F) as 
     subparagraphs (B) through (E), respectively;
       (4) in section 41110--
       (A) in subsection (a)(2)(B), by striking ``41712, and 
     41731-41742'' and inserting ``and 41712''; and
       (B) in subsection (c)--
       (i) in paragraph (1), by striking ``carrier--'' and all 
     that follows through ``does not provide'' and inserting 
     ``carrier does not provide''; and
       (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking ``(1)(B)'' and inserting 
     ``(1)''; and
       (5) in section 47124(b)(3)(C), by striking clause (iv) and 
     redesignating clauses (v) through (vii) as clauses (iv) 
     through (vi), respectively.

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