[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1173]
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  SA 298. Mr. WARNOCK 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 appropriate place in title IV, add the following:

     SEC. 4___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST REDUCING FUNDING FOR LAND-
                   GRANT UNIVERSITIES.

       (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, 
     amendment between the Houses, or conference report that would 
     cause a land-grant university (as defined within the meaning 
     of the term ``1994 Institution'' in section 532 of the Equity 
     in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 301 
     note), as a college established for the benefit of 
     agriculture and the mechanic arts in accordance with the 
     provisions of the Act of July 2, 1862 (12 Stat. 503; 7 U.S.C. 
     301 et seq.) (commonly known as the First Morrill Act), and 
     as a college eligible to receive funding under the Act of 
     August 30, 1890 (26 Stat. 417, chapter 841; 7 U.S.C. 321 et 
     seq.) (commonly known as the Second Morrill Act)) to receive 
     less funding than the land-grant university would receive 
     under law in effect on the day before the date of 
     consideration.
       (b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or 
     suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
     fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative 
     vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly 
     chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of 
     the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under 
     subsection (a).
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