To provide for a deficit-neutral reserve fund for Social Security reform.
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Senate amendment submitted
March 13, 2008
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Senate amendment submitted
March 13, 2008
Senate amendment proposed (on the floor): Amendment SA 4328 proposed by Senator DeMint.(consideration: CR S2057-2058; text: CR S2057)
March 13, 2008
Senate amendment not agreed to: Amendment SA 4328 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 41 - 57. Record Vote Number: 65.
March 13, 2008
Roll call votes on amendments in Senate: Amendment SA 4328 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 41 - 57. Record Vote Number: 65.
March 13, 2008
Amendment SA 4328 proposed by Senator DeMint. (consideration: CR S2057-2058; text: CR S2057) To provide for a deficit-neutral reserve fund for Social Security reform.
March 13, 2008
Amendment SA 4328 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 41 - 57. Record Vote Number: 65.
March 13, 2008
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1 roll call on this amendment
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SA 4328. Mr. DeMINT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 70, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 2013; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the end of title III, add the following: SEC. __. RESERVE FUND FOR SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM. If the Senate Committee on Finance reports a bill or joint resolution, or an amendment is offered thereto, or a conference report is submitted thereon, that provides changes to the Federal Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Benefits Program established under title II of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) by-- (1) requiring that the Federal Old Age and Survivors Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund are to be used only to finance expenditures to provide retirement income of future beneficiaries of such program; (2) ensuring that there is no change to current law scheduled benefits for individuals born before January 1, 1952; (3) providing participants with the benefits of savings and investment while permitting the pre-funding of at least some portion of future benefits; and (4) ensuring that the funds made available to finance such legislation do not exceed the amounts of the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration's intermediate actuarial estimates of the Federal Old Age and Survivors Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, as published in the most recent report of the Board of Trustees of such Trust Funds; the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this resolution by the amounts provided by such legislation, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2008 through 2013 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2008 through 2018. ______