To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to recognize that climate change is real and caused by human activity and that Congress needs to take action to cut carbon pollution.

SA 777. Mr. SANDERS (for himself, Mr. Whitehouse, Mrs. Boxer, Mr.
Markey, and Mr. Schatz) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2017 through 2025; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO CUTTING
CARBON POLLUTION TO PREVENT HUMAN-INDUCED
CLIMATE CHANGE.

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,
amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports
relating to protecting Americans from the impacts of human-
induced climate change, which may include action on policies
that reduce emissions by the amounts that the scientific
community says are needed to avert catastrophic climate
change, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes 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 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2016 through 2025.
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