Text of Senate Amendment 1035

Text of Senate Amendment 1035

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)] [Senate] [Page S1275] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] SA 1035. Mr. SANDERS 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 PRESIDENT TRUMP'S PLAN TO CUT WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE AT THE PENTAGON, WHICH MAY INCLUDE PROVIDING HEALTH CARE TO VETERANS AND EXPANDING MEDICARE TO COVER DENTAL, VISION, AND HEARING. 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 redirecting wasteful defense spending, which may include cutting waste, fraud, and abuse at the Pentagon, expanding health care for veterans, or requiring Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing, 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. ______