To provide funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program in a fiscally responsible manner.

SA 4022. Mr. GREGG proposed an amendment to amendment SA 3900
proposed by Mr. Sanders (for himself, Mr. Obama, Ms. Cantwell, Mr.
Kerry, Ms. Snowe, Ms. Collins, Mr. Sununu, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Leahy,
Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Kennedy, and Mr. Durbin) to the amendment SA 3899
proposed by Mr. Dorgan (for himself, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Baucus, Mr.
Kennedy, Mr. Smith, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, and Mr. Salazar) to the
bill S. 1200, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to revise
and extend the Act; as follows:

Strike all after line 1 and insert the following:

TITLE III--MISCELLANEOUS

SEC. 301. LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

(a) In General.--There are authorized to be appropriated,
and there are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated--
(1) $400,000,000 (to remain available until expended) for
making payments under subsections (a) through (d) of section
2604 of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 (42
U.S.C. 8623); and
(2) $400,000,000 (to remain available until expended) for
making payments under section 2604(e) of the Low-Income Home
Energy Assistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8623(e)),
notwithstanding the designation requirement of section
2602(e) of that Act (42 U.S.C. 8621(e)).
(b) Rescission.--
(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, each discretionary amount provided by the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110-161; 121 Stat.
1844), excluding the amounts made available for the purposes
described in paragraph (2), is reduced by the pro rata
percentage required to reduce the total amount provided by
that Act by $800,000,000.
(2) Excepted purposes.--The reduction under paragraph (1)
shall not apply to any discretionary amount made available in
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110-
161; 121 Stat. 1844), for purposes of--
(A) the Department of Defense; or
(B) the low-income home energy assistance program
established under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act
of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8621 et seq.).
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