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On the recordApril 15, 2015
I thank the ranking member of the Budget Committee, the Senator from Vermont. Motion to Instruct Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending motion and call up my motion to instruct, which is at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the motion. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Hawaii [Mr. Schatz moves that the managers on the part of the Senate at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the House amendment to the resolution S. Con. Res. 11 be instructed to insist that the final conference report include the deficit- neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring all legally married same-sex spouses have equal access to the Social Security and veterans' benefits they have earned and receive equal treatment under the law pursuant to the Constitution of the United States in the concurrent resolution as agreed to by the Senate.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii

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