S.Amdt. 1446Senate115th Congress (2017-2019)2nd degree
S.Amdt. 1446
Sponsored by
Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM)
Submitted October 19, 2017
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October 19, 2017
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SA 1446. Mr. UDALL (for himself and Mr. Heinrich) 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 title III, add the following: SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE SHORTFALLS OF THE RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION ACT. 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, and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to ensuring that compensation be provided to people in the United States who were sickened by radiation exposure by above ground nuclear weapons testing throughout the western United States and Pacific islands, and to those were sickened by radiation while working in the uranium mining industry during the Cold War, 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 2018 through 2022 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. ______