S.Amdt. 545

SA 545. Mr. BARRASSO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1323, to express the sense of the Senate on shared sacrifice in resolving the budget deficit; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page _, between lines _ and _, insert the following:

SEC. ___. SENSE OF SENATE REGARDING PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVE.

(a) Finding.--The Senate finds that the budget request of the President for fiscal year 2012 included a total of $1,329,000,000 for the United States Agency for International Development, the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of State for the Global Climate Change Initiative.

(b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that the Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development, and the Department of the Treasury should not expend taxpayer funds to provide foreign assistance through the Global Climate Change Initiative.