[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1190-S1191]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 420. 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

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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 
                   PRESERVING PUBLIC SAFETY AND NATIONAL SECURITY.

       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 
     preserving public safety and the national security of the 
     United States, which may include exempting employees who work 
     at naval shipyards, other employees whose job duties are 
     critical to protecting the national security of the United 
     States, or employees whose job duties involve protecting 
     public safety (including by screening for avian flu or 
     supporting vaccination efforts) from executive orders and 
     directives from the Office of Personnel Management and the 
     Office of Management and Budget, including such measures 
     instituting a Federal hiring freeze, instituting a deferred 
     resignation program, or removing employees in a probationary 
     period, 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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