To modify the authorization for climate change legislation.

SA 879. Ms. STABENOW (for herself, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Boxer, and Mrs.
Shaheen) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her 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 33, line 20, strike ``or help'' and insert ``create
new jobs in a clean technology economy, strengthen the
manufacturing competitiveness of the United States, diversify
the domestic clean energy supply to increase the energy
security of the United States, protect consumers (including
policies that address regional differences), provide
incentives for cost-savings achieved through energy
efficiencies, provide voluntary opportunities for agriculture
and forestry communities to contribute to reducing the levels
of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and help''.
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