    [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 33 (Wednesday, February 19, 2025)]
    [Senate]
    [Pages S1051-S1052]
    From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      SA 152. Mr. REED 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 REVERSING
                       THE DECLINE IN LITERACY SKILLS FOR CHILDREN AND
                       ADULTS OF THE UNITED STATES.

           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

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         pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or more bills, joint
         resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses,
         motions, or conference reports relating to reversing the
         decline in literacy skills for children and adults of the
         United States, which may include increasing funding for adult
         education or evidence-based literacy instruction in public
         schools, 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.
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