To protect workers from significant job loss by providing a point of order against climate change or similar legislation that raises Federal revenues to such an extent that it causes significant job loss in manufacturing- or coal-dependent U.S. regions such as the Midwest, Great Plains or South.

SA 926. Mr. BOND 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 LEGISLATION THAT CAUSES
SIGNIFICANT JOB LOSS.

(a) In General.--After a concurrent resolution on the
budget is agreed to, it shall not be in order in the Senate
to consider any bill, resolution, amendment between Houses,
motion, or conference report that--
(1) would cause revenues to be more than the level of
revenues set forth for that first fiscal year or for the
total of that fiscal year and the ensuing fiscal years in the
applicable resolution for which allocations are provided
under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974,
and
(2) would cause significant job loss in manufacturing-or
coal-dependent regions of the United States such as the
Midwest, Great Plains or South.
(b) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal.--
(1) Waiver.--This section may be waived or suspended in the
Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the
Members, duly chosen and sworn.

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