Text of Senate Amendment 1203

Text of Senate Amendment 1203

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)] [Senate] [Page S1299] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] SA 1203. Ms. LUMMIS (for herself and Mr. Risch) 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 PERMITTING REFORM. 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 expediting and improving Federal permitting processes for critical infrastructure and development projects, which may include establishing clear timelines for agency reviews, reducing duplicative requirements, enhancing coordination between Federal and State agencies, streamlining environmental reviews, creating more efficient approval processes for energy and mineral development, preventing frivolous litigation that causes unnecessary project delays, establishing reasonable time limits for legal challenges, limiting repeated challenges to approved permits, or implementing other measures to reduce unnecessary delays while maintaining appropriate environmental and safety standards, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2025 through 2029 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2025 through 2034. ______