S.Amdt. 1223

SA 1223. Mr. BENNET submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1116 proposed by Mr. Enzi to the concurrent resolution H.
Con. Res. 71, establishing the congressional budget for the United
States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle A of title IV, add the following:

SEC. 41__. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT WOULD MAKE
THE TAX CODE LESS PROGRESSIVE.

(a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate
to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment,
amendment between the Houses, or conference report that would
make the income tax code under the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 less progressive by decreasing the tax burden paid by
the 1 percent of taxpayers with the highest income, as
measured either on an absolute basis or as a percentage of
the total tax burden.
(b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or
suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative
vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly
chosen and sworn, shall

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be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair
on a point of order raised under subsection (a).
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