To eliminate all earmarks in the bill.

SA 6555. Mr. JOHNSON (for himself, Mr. Braun, Mr. Daines, Ms. Lummis,
Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Toomey, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Risch,
Mr. Grassley, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Barrasso, and Mr. Lee) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 6552 proposed by Mr.
Leahy to the bill H.R. 2617, to amend section 1115 of title 31, United
States Code, to amend the description of how performance goals are
achieved, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

On page 6, after line 2, add the following:

SEC. 7. ELIMINATION OF EARMARKS.

(a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of any
division of this Act--
(1) no amounts shall be made available for a purpose
specified in any table relating to congressionally directed
spending in the explanatory statement described in section 4
(in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated
Act), or for any congressionally directed spending in any
division of this Act, and each such item of congressionally
directed spending is null and void;
(2) each appropriation under any division of this Act shall
be reduced by the amount of any allocation of such
appropriation for congressionally directed spending items
that is made null and void by paragraph (1); and
(3) each allocation of an appropriation under any division
of this Act shall be reduced by the amount of any further
allocation of such allocation of an appropriation for
congressionally directed spending items that is made null and
void by paragraph (1).
(b) Report.--The Director of the Office of Management and
Budget shall submit to Congress a report indicating the final
amount appropriated for each appropriation account for which
amounts are made available under any division of this Act and
the amount of each allocation of such an appropriation, as
reduced in accordance with subsection (a).
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