S.Amdt. 177

SA 177. Mr. ROBERTS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 8, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023, which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Sec. __. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to the reduction of wasteful spending, which may include but is not limited to the establishment of a new committee of the Senate with the purpose of examining and proposing annually legislation to reduce wasteful, inefficient, and duplicative spending.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the budget authority and outlay allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendment, amendments between houses, motions, or conference reports related to the reduction of wasteful spending, which may include but is not limited to the establishment of a new committee of the Senate with the purpose of examining and proposing annually legislation to reduce wasteful, inefficient, and duplicative spending, without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2014 through 2018 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2014 through 2023.