[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1263]
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  SA 951. Mr. CRUZ 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 
                   PROHIBITING THE COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL 
                   QUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 
                   FROM PROMULGATING RULES OR GUIDANCE THAT BANS 
                   FRACKING IN THE UNITED STATES.

       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 the 
     National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 
     seq.) and environmental laws and policies, which may include 
     limiting or prohibiting the Chair of the Council on 
     Environmental Quality and the Administrator of the 
     Environmental Protection Agency from proposing, finalizing, 
     or implementing a rule or guidance that bans fracking in the 
     United States, 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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