[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1181]
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  SA 353. Mr. WELCH 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 
                   PROTECTING CONGRESS' CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY 
                   OF THE POWER OF THE PURSE.

       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 
     protecting the constitutional authority of Congress to 
     appropriate funds (commonly known as ``the power of the 
     purse''), which may include ending the funding freeze 
     instituted by the Office of Management and Budget as declared 
     by a series of memoranda issued by the Office of Management 
     and Budget or requiring the President to disperse all 
     previously-appropriated funds (including amounts made 
     available under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 
     (Public Law 118-42; 138 Stat. 25)), 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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