S.Amdt. 1224

SA 1224. 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 NOT
BE THE BIGGEST MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUT IN HISTORY.

(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
not be the biggest middle class tax cut ever enacted in the
United States, based on a distributional analysis and score
by the Joint Committee on Taxation and measured either as a
share of the gross domestic product or as a percentage of the
total tax burden (determined by defining ``middle class'' as
all income deciles above the lowest 20 percent and below the
highest 10 percent).
(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 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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