[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 33 (Wednesday, February 19, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1048]
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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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