Text of Senate Amendment 663

Text of Senate Amendment 663

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)] [Senate] [Page S1224] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] SA 663. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 7, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the end of title III, add the following: SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ENSURING THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS' TOP CLINICAL PRIORITY OF ENDING VETERAN SUICIDE IS NOT IMPACTED BY STAFFING OR FUNDING REDUCTIONS OR FREEZES. The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution, and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to preventing veterans suicide, including legislation that ensures that staff and programs related to or administered by the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention of the Department of Veterans Affairs are not reduced below levels at the end of fiscal year 2024 due to hiring freezes, deferred resignation, or buyout offers, reductions in force, mass terminations or layoffs, or funding freezes or reductions, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2025 through 2034. ______