[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 145 (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6304]
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  SA 3102. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 14, setting forth the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 
2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 2023 through 2031; 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 REDUCING 
                   THE SIZE OF THE FEDERAL 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 
     reducing the size of the Federal workforce, which may include 
     prohibiting or limiting Executive agencies from appointing 
     individuals to vacant positions or eliminating or 
     consolidating vacant Executive agency positions (other than 
     positions in the uniformed services, positions occupied by 
     political appointees, or positions at a shared service 
     provider that offers payroll services for Federal employees) 
     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 2022 through 2026 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2022 through 2031.
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