To protect charitable giving by ensuring that organizations that provide important religious, educational, cultural, health care, and environmental services are not negatively impacted by changes to the Federal income tax deduction for charitable donations.

SA 803. Mr. THUNE (for himself, Mr. Bennet, and Mr. Ensign) submitted
an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent
resolution S. Con. Res. 13, setting forth the congressional budget for
the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth
the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014;
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 68, after line 4, insert the following:

SEC. __. POINT OF ORDER ON LEGISLATION THAT INCREASES REVENUE
ABOVE THE LEVELS ESTABLISHED IN THE BUDGET
RESOLUTION.

(a) In General.--After a concurrent resolution on the
budget is agreed to, it shall not be in order in the Senate
to consider any bill, resolution, amendment between Houses,
motion, or conference report that would cause revenues to be
more than the level of the revenues set forth, prior to any
adjustment made pursuant under any reserve fund, for that
first fiscal year or for the total of that fiscal year and
the ensuing fiscal years in the applicable resolution for
which allocations are provided under section 302(a) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
(b) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal.--
(1) Waiver.--This section may be waived or suspended in the
Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the
Members, duly chosen and sworn.
(2) Appeal.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the
Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the
Senate to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a
point of order raised under this section.
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