S.Amdt. 850

SA 850. Mr. DeMINT 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:

At the appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

SEC. __. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO SUSPEND PREVAILING WAGE MANDATES IN HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT AREAS.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that would suspend the application of Federal laws requiring the payment of prevailing wages to workers under Federal contracts that have received federal funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.