Amend CSSJR 1 on page 1, between lines 31 and 32, by inserting the following:

WHEREAS, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform in its report The Moment of Truth includes recommendations to be considered by the United States Congress in reducing the federal deficit, such as eliminating tax breaks and reductions, abolishing the alternative minimum tax, reducing unnecessary defense spending, reducing farm subsidies, reducing health care costs through medical malpractice reform, raising the retirement age to 68 by 2050 and to 69 by 2075, cutting corporate income taxes from 35 percent to 26 percent, and reforming personal income tax levels to create three categories of rates at 8, 14, and 23 percent; and