[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1219]
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  SA 628. 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 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 RECONCILIATION LEGISLATION 
                   DURING A PERIOD OF HIGH INFLATION.

       (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill pursuant to title II unless the Director 
     of the Congressional Budget Office certifies (based on the 
     most recent data available to the Director) that inflation, 
     as measured by the average of the annualized changes in the 
     most recently published monthly reports on the consumer price 
     index for all-urban consumers published by the Bureau of 
     Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor, or the 
     unadjusted annual change of the previous year in that index, 
     is equal to or below 2 percent.
       (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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