S.Amdt. 909

SA 909. Mr. CORNYN 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 AGAINST BUDGET RESOLUTIONS THAT DOUBLE THE DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.

(a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider a concurrent resolution on the budget for the budget year or any amendment, amendment between Houses, motion, or conference report thereon that doubles or more than doubles the debt held by the public for the budget year and any subsequent fiscal year covered by the resolution compared to the current year covered by the resolution.

(b) Suspension of Requirement During War.--If a declaration of war is in effect, this section is suspended.

(c) Supermajority Waiver and Appeals.--

(1) Waiver.--Subsection (a) may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.

(2) Appeals.--An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this subsection.

(d) Budget Year.--In this section, the term “budget year” shall have the same meaning as in section 250(c)(12) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.