To provide for appropriations for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

SA 2077. Mr. REED (for himself, Ms. Collins, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Kennedy,
Ms. Snowe, Ms. Cantwell, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Coleman, Mr. Harkin, Mr.
Dorgan, Mr. Schumer, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Smith, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr.
Baucus, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Salazar,
Mrs. Lincoln, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Lieberman,
Mr. Johnson, Mr. Reid, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Levin, Mr. Bayh, Mr. Byrd, Mr.
Conrad, and Mr. Dayton) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill H.R. 3058, making appropriations for the Departments
of Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, the
Judiciary, District of Columbia, and independent agencies for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title VI, insert the following:

Administration for Children and Families

Low Income Home Energy Assistance

For making payments under title XXVI of the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8621 et seq.),
$3,100,000,000, for the unanticipated home energy assistance
needs of 1 or more States, as authorized by section 2604(e)
of the Act (42 U.S.C. 8623(e)), which amount shall be made
available for obligation in fiscal year 2006 and which amount
is designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
402 of H. Con. Res. 95 (109th Congress), the concurrent
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006.
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