[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1185]
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SA 380. Ms. CORTEZ MASTO submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by her 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
PROHIBITING FEDERAL EMPLOYEES OR OFFICIALS FROM
ISSUING, PROMOTING, OR FINANCIALLY BENEFITTING
FROM MEMECOINS IN WHICH THE CHINESE COMMUNIST
PARTY INVESTS.
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 Federal financial security, which may include
prohibiting Federal employees or officials from issuing,
promoting, or financially benefitting from any cryptocurrency
that is named after a character, individual, animal, or
artwork or that has other humorous characteristics based on
internet memes (commonly known as a ``memecoin'') in which
the Chinese Communist Party has a financial stake, by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, 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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