S.Amdt. 871

SA 871. 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:

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SEC. __. DEFICIT-MUTUAL RESERVE FUND TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF THE CENSUS.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for a bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report to prohibit expenditure of any funds provided for developing and conducting the census by any Federal office or agency not within the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce, by the amounts provided in that legislation for that purpose provided that such legislation would not increase spending over the total of the period of fiscal years 2009 through 2014, provided that such legislation would not increase revenues in any year in the period of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.