[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1172]
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SA 294. Mr. MURPHY 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 WHETHER
THE PRESIDENT, OR ANY GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, HAS
UNILATERALLY SUBSTITUTED THEIR OWN FUNDING
DECISIONS FOR THOSE OF THE CONGRESS.
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
impoundments, which may include legislation defining when the
President, or other government officials, have violated the
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2
U.S.C. 621 et seq.), which requires the President to promptly
report to the Congress all withholdings of budget authority
and was established to prevent the President, and other
government officials, from unilaterally substituting their
own funding decisions for those of the Congress, 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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