Text of Senate Amendment 446

Text of Senate Amendment 446

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)] [Senate] [Page S1194] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] SA 446. 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 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 SUPPORTING OUR AIR SAFETY WORKFORCE. 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 supporting our air safety workforce, which may include improving hiring, retention, pay, or quality-of-life for certified professional controllers or making improvements to technology and critical infrastructure, or which may include exempting all Federal Aviation Administration employees or other critical flight security personnel from recent executive orders and directives from the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget instituting a Federal hiring freeze, a deferred resignation program, and the dismissal of Federal employees in their probationary period, and which may include reinstating fired Federal Aviation Administration employees, 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. ______