[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1190]
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  SA 416. Mrs. SHAHEEN 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 appropriate place in title IV, add the following:

     SEC. 4___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION SIGNIFICANTLY 
                   INCREASING THE DEFICIT WHEN INTEREST EXPENSES 
                   ARE ALREADY HIGH.

       (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, 
     based on estimates prepared by the Congressional Budget 
     Office, would increase the deficit by more than 
     $100,000,000,000 over the period of the budget year and the 
     ensuing 9 fiscal years if the most recent budget and economic 
     outlook by the Congressional Budget Office projects net 
     Federal interest outlays of more than 3 percent of the gross 
     domestic product of the United States in any of the those 
     years.
       (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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