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  SA 234. Mr. BEGICH (for himself, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Udall of Colorado, 
Mr. Cowan, and Mr. Whitehouse) submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 8, setting 
forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for 
fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for 
fiscal years 2015 through 2023; which was ordered to lie on the table, 
as follows:


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       On page 67, line 3, insert ``(a) In General.--'' before 
     ``The Chairman''.
       On page 67, between lines 15 and 16, insert the following:
       (b) Exclusion of Effort on MEADS From Authorized Efforts 
     Covered by Reserve Fund.--
       (1) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:
       (A) According to a February 2011 Office of the Secretary of 
     Defense Fact Sheet the Medium Extended Air Defense System 
     (MEADS) has encountered significant schedule and cost 
     overruns since its inception in the 1990s.
       (B) The Fact Sheet states that the restructured acquisition 
     design and development program would end by 2014, consistent 
     with the expiration of the Memorandum of Understanding 
     between the United States, Germany, and Italy, and the cost 
     ceiling negotiated between those parties.
       (2) Exclusion of efforts on meads from authorized 
     efforts.--A revision in the allocations of a committee or 
     committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports for acquisition or 
     research and development on the Medium Extended Air Defense 
     System would be an increase in the deficit over either the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2013 through 2018 or the 
     period of the total of fiscal years 2013 through 2023 and 
     would be inconsistent with acquisition reform efforts of the 
     Department of Defense otherwise authorized by subsection (a).
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