[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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