[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1224]
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  SA 663. Mr. BLUMENTHAL 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 ENSURING 
                   THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS' TOP 
                   CLINICAL PRIORITY OF ENDING VETERAN SUICIDE IS 
                   NOT IMPACTED BY STAFFING OR FUNDING REDUCTIONS 
                   OR FREEZES.

       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 
     preventing veterans suicide, including legislation that 
     ensures that staff and programs related to or administered by 
     the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention of the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs are not reduced below levels 
     at the end of fiscal year 2024 due to hiring freezes, 
     deferred resignation, or buyout offers, reductions in force, 
     mass terminations or layoffs, or funding freezes or 
     reductions, 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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