[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Pages 9606-9607]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 494. Mr. LEAHY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 434 submitted by Mr. Grassley and intended to be proposed 
to the bill S. 782, to amend the Public Works and Economic Development 
Act of 1965 to reauthorize that Act, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of the matter proposed to be inserted, add the 
     following:

     SEC. 23. PERMANENT REAUTHORIZATION OF EB-5 REGIONAL CENTER 
                   PROGRAM.

       Section 610 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 
     State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
     Act, 1993 (8 U.S.C. 1153 note) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``pilot'' each place such term appears; and
       (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``until September 30, 
     2012''.
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  SA 495. Mr. UDALL of New Mexico submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him to the bill S. 679, to reduce the number of executive 
positions subject to Senate confirmation; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       At the end of the bill, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. DEBATE AND CONSIDERATION OF LEGISLATIVE MATTERS AND 
                   NOMINATIONS.

       (a) Debate on Motions to Proceed.--Rule VIII of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate is amended by striking paragraph 
     2 and inserting the following:
       ``2. Debate on a motion to proceed to the consideration of 
     any matter, and any debatable motion or appeal in connection 
     therewith, shall be limited to not more than 2 hours, to be 
     equally divided between, and controlled by, the majority 
     leader and the minority leader or their designees except for 
     a motion to go into executive session to consider a specified 
     item of executive business and a motion to proceed to 
     consider any privileged matter, which shall not be 
     debatable.''.
       (b) Right to Offer Amendments.--Paragraph 2 of rule XXII of 
     the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended by inserting at 
     the end the following:
       ``After debate has concluded under this paragraph but prior 
     to final disposition of the pending matter, the Majority 
     Leader and the Minority Leader may each offer not to exceed 3 
     amendments identified as leadership amendments if they have 
     been timely filed under this paragraph and are germane to the 
     matter being amended. Debate on a leadership amendment shall 
     be limited to 1 hour equally divided. A leadership amendment 
     may not be divided.''.
       (c) Postcloture Debate on Nominations.--The second 
     undesignated paragraph of paragraph 2 of rule XXII of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate is amended by inserting at the 
     end the following: ``If the matter on which cloture is 
     invoked is a nomination, the period of time for debate shall 
     be 2 hours.''.
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  SA 496. Mr. UDALL of New Mexico submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him to the bill S. 679, to

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reduce the number of executive positions subject to Senate 
confirmation; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of the bill, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. ESTABLISHING MAJORITY VOTE THRESHOLD FOR PROCEEDING 
                   TO NOMINATIONS.

       The second undesignated paragraph of paragraph 2 of rule 
     XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended to read 
     as follows:
       ``Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be 
     brought to a close?'' And if that question shall be decided 
     in the affirmative by three-fifths of the Senators duly 
     chosen and sworn -- except on a nomination to an Executive 
     Branch position requiring the advise and consent of the 
     Senate, in which case the necessary affirmative vote shall be 
     a majority of the Senators duly chosen and sworn -- then said 
     measure, motion, or other matter pending before the Senate, 
     or the unfinished business, shall be the unfinished business 
     to the exclusion of all other business until disposed of.''.
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  SA 497. Mr. UDALL of New Mexico submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him to the bill S. 679, to reduce the number of executive 
positions subject to Senate confirmation; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       At the end of the bill, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. POSTCLOTURE DEBATE ON NOMINATIONS.

       The second undesignated paragraph of paragraph 2 of rule 
     XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended by 
     inserting at the end the following: ``If the matter on which 
     cloture is invoked is a nomination, the period of time for 
     debate shall be 2 hours.''.
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  SA 498. Mr. CASEY (for Mr. Conrad) proposed an amendment to the 
resolution S. Res. 202, designating June 27, 2011, as ``National Post-
Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day''; as follows:

       On page 2, beginning on line 4, strike ``urges'' through 
     ``working'' on line 5 and insert ``supports the efforts of 
     the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of 
     Defense''.

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