To temporarily protect the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund.

SA 1907. Mr. VITTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 3357, to restore sums to the Highway Trust Fund,
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

Strike sections 401, 402, 403, and 404, and insert the
following:

SEC. 401. TEMPORARY PROTECTION OF HIGHWAY TRUST FUND
SOLVENCY.

Notwithstanding section 5 of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Pub. Law 111-5), from the amounts
appropriated or made available and remaining unobligated
under such Act, the Director of the Office of Management and
Budget shall transfer to the Highway Trust Fund such sums as
the Secretary of Transportation determines in the aggregate
will be necessary to ensure that the Highway Trust Fund
balance does not fall below the threshold that would require
a change from daily payments to weekly or biweekly payments
of expenditures from the Highway Trust Fund through March 31,
2011. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget
shall report to each congressional committee the amounts so
transferred within the jurisdiction of such committee. The
amounts so transferred shall remain available without fiscal
year limitation.

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