Text of Senate Amendment 420

Text of Senate Amendment 420

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)] [Senate] [Pages S1190-S1191] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] SA 420. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 7, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States [[Page S1191]] 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 PRESERVING PUBLIC SAFETY AND NATIONAL SECURITY. 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 preserving public safety and the national security of the United States, which may include exempting employees who work at naval shipyards, other employees whose job duties are critical to protecting the national security of the United States, or employees whose job duties involve protecting public safety (including by screening for avian flu or supporting vaccination efforts) from executive orders and directives from the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget, including such measures instituting a Federal hiring freeze, instituting a deferred resignation program, or removing employees in a probationary period, 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. ______