S.Amdt. 238

SA 238. Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself and Mr. Barrasso) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her 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:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO STUDYING THE EXPOSURE OF UNITED STATES FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS TO THE EUROZONE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports relating to the ability of the Financial Stability Oversight Council and the Office of Financial Research at the Department of the Treasury to complete a detailed study of the exposure of the United States financial system to the European sovereign debt crisis, and to evaluate the impact and possible outcomes for United States markets, particularly derivatives markets, and detail any institutional vulnerabilities, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2013 through 2018 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2013 through 2023.