S.Amdt. 715

SA 715. Mr. DAINES submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the concurrent resolution S.

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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 TAXPAYER FUNDING FOR THE
PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT.

(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
provide funding for the purposes of entering into or
implementing the Paris Climate Agreement or implementing or
complying with any Nationally Determined Contribution of the
United States established under that agreement.
(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).
(c) Paris Climate Agreement Defined.--In this section, the
term ``Paris Climate Agreement'' means the decision by the
21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris, France,
adopted December 12, 2015.
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