To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to consumer financial protection.

SA 842. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. Coons) 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 CONSUMER
FINANCIAL PROTECTION.

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 consumer financial protection, which may include
measures ensuring that the Bureau of Consumer Financial
Protection has authority and autonomy to continue to protect
consumers from predatory lending, misleading or abusive
behavior in the financial marketplace, or other unscrupulous
practices, 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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