[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1262-S1263]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 946. Mr. SCHIFF 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 
                   SAFEGUARDING UNITED STATES CLASSIFIED 
                   INFORMATION.

       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 
     safeguarding classified information, which may include 
     legislation

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     that would ensure there are sufficient personnel, 
     technological assets, or other resources to reduce the 
     security clearance backlog or to prohibit the provision of 
     Top Secret--sensitive compartmented information clearances to 
     individuals who have not undergone, or are unable to 
     successfully pass, a background investigation, by the amounts 
     provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided 
     that such legislation would not increase the deficit over 
     either the period of the total of fiscal years 2025 through 
     2029 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2025 through 
     2034.
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