[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1220]
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SA 636. 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 end of title III, add the following:
SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE
ELIMINATION OF EXECUTIVE AGENCIES.
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
congressional oversight duties, which may include requiring
consent from Congress before executive agencies or entities
like the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization, an advisor
to the President connected with the U.S. DOGE Service
Temporary Organization, or any office of the President, make
large changes to executive agencies, which may include
eliminating executive agencies, substantially changing the
purpose of an executive agency, or substantially changing the
workforce of an executive agency, 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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