To clarify treatment of outside income and expenses in the Senate.

SA 2633. Mr. LOTT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2020, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to
section 202(b) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal
year 2006; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. CLARIFICATION OF TREATMENT OF OUTSIDE INCOME AND
EXPENSES IN THE SENATE.

(a) In General.--For purposes of rule XXXVI and paragraph
5(b)(3) of rule XXXVII of the Standing Rules of the Senate,
compensation or outside earned income for any calendar year
shall be reduced by actual and necessary expenses incurred by
a Member of the Senate in connection with the practice of
medicine. A Member of the Senate shall include information
with respect to such expenses with any report in which such
compensation or income is required to be included.
(b) Payment or Reimbursement.--If expenses described in
subsection (a) are--
(1) paid or reimbursed by another person, the amount of any
such payment shall not be counted as compensation or outside
earned income; and
(2) not paid or reimbursed, the amount of compensation or
outside earned income shall be determined by subtracting the
actual and necessary expenses incurred by the Member from any
payment received for the activity.
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