S.Amdt. 888

SA 888. Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mrs. Boxer) 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 34, between lines 2 and 3, insert the following:

(c) Exception.--Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate shall not revise the allocations in this resolution if the legislation described in subsection (a) or (b) is reported from any committee pursuant to section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 641) unless, in accordance with the requirement to not increase the deficit, an amount equal to the value of all allowances from legislation described in subsection (b) is used for--

(1) the creation of new jobs in a clean technology economy;

(2) transition assistance relating to consumers, industries, workers, and regions adversely affected by climate change and climate change policy; and

(3) other purposes relating directly to the objective of the legislation addressing greenhouse gas emissions.