S.Amdt. 3297

SA 3297. Mr. DeMINT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2786 proposed by Mr. Reid (for himself, Mr. Baucus, Mr.
Dodd, and Mr. Harkin) to the bill H.R. 3590, to amend the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the
case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal
employees, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. POINT OF ORDER.

(a) In General.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to
consider a congressionally directed spending item, a limited
tax benefit, or a limited tariff benefit, if a Senator,
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner has conditioned
the inclusion of language to provide funding for a
congressional directed spending item, a limited tax benefit,
or a limited tariff benefit in any amendment, bill, or joint
resolution (or an accompanying report) or in any conference
report on a bill or joint resolution (including an
accompanying joint explanatory statement of managers) on any
vote cast by any Senator, Member, Delegate, or Resident
Commissioner.
(b) Waiver.--The provisions of this section be waived or
suspended only by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
Members, present and voting.
(c) Appeals.--Appeals from the decisions of the Chair
relating to any provision of this section shall be limited to
1 hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the
appellant and the manager of the measure. An affirmative vote
of two-thirds of the Members of the Senate, present and
voting, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling
of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section.

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