    [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 33 (Wednesday, February 19, 2025)]
    [Senate]
    [Page S1048]
    From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      SA 124. Mr. WARNER 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 ENSURING
                       THAT EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
                       THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, AND
                       ELEMENTS OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ARE NOT
                       SUBJECT TO RETALIATION AND FIRING DUE TO
                       POLITICAL PREFERENCES OF ANY PRESIDENTIAL
                       ADMINISTRATION.

           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
         ensuring that employees of the Department of Justice, the
         Federal Bureau of Investigation, and elements of the
         intelligence community are not subject to retaliation and
         firing due to political preferences of any Presidential
         administration 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.
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