[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1218-S1219]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 626. Mr. MERKLEY 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

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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, insert the following:

     SEC. 4___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT PROVIDES 
                   FEDERAL STUDENT AID FUNDING TO INSTITUTIONS 
                   THAT ENGAGE IN LEGACY ADMISSION PRACTICES.

       (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 
     provide Federal student aid funding to institutions of higher 
     education that provide any manner of preferential treatment 
     in the admission process to applicants on the basis of their 
     relationships to donors to the institution or to alumni of 
     the institution.
       (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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