S.Amdt. 576Senate117th Congress (2021-2023)

S.Amdt. 576

Submitted February 4, 2021

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Senate amendment submitted

February 4, 2021

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SA 576. Mr. CRAMER (for himself, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Daines, and Mrs.
Blackburn) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the
concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 5, setting forth the congressional
budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2021 and
setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2022
through 2030; 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 UNILATERALLY REDUCING THE
NUMBER OF DEPLOYED UNITED STATES
INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES BELOW 400.

(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--
(1) cause a decrease in the number of deployed United
States intercontinental ballistic missiles below 400; or
(2) reduce Federal funds to maintain, modernize, and
replace the current United States intercontinental ballistic
missiles at a level of at least 400 deployed missiles.
(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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