S.Amdt. 3300

SA 3300. 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
WHEN INFLATION IS AT LEAST 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 when 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 at least 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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