S.Amdt. 3139

SA 3139. Mr. LEE (for himself and Mr. Toomey) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con.
Res. 14, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States
Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate
budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031; which was ordered
to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title IV, add the following:

SEC. 4___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST INCREASING NET SPENDING
UNLESS THE DIRECTOR OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET
OFFICE CERTIFIES THAT INFLATION IS BELOW 3
PERCENT.

(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
increases net spending unless the Director of the
Congressional Budget Office certifies (based on the most
recent data available to the Director) that inflation, as
measured in either the average of the annualized changes in
the 3 most recently published monthly reports on the consumer
price index for all-urban consumers published by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor, or the
previous year's unadjusted annual change in that index, is
below 3 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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