[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5036]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2772. Ms. KLOBUCHAR submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. PREMERGER FILING FEES TO BE RETAINED AND USED FOR 
                   EXPENSES.

       Beginning in fiscal year 2025, and in each fiscal year 
     thereafter, all premerger notification filing fees collected 
     pursuant to section 7A of the 8 Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 18a) 
     shall be--
       (1) retained and used for expenses necessary for the 
     enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws by the Antitrust 
     Division of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade 
     Commission, to remain available until expended; and
       (2) treated as direct spending described in section 
     250(c)(8)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900(c)(8)(A)).
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