[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S1299]
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  SA 1205. Ms. LUMMIS (for herself and Mr. Risch) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by her 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 
                   ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973.

       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 
     improving implementation of the Endangered Species Act of 
     1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) through enhanced flexibility 
     and cooperation with private landowners, creating regulatory 
     certainty for affected stakeholders, establishing clear 
     recovery metrics, increasing incentives for proactive species 
     conservation, streamlining consultation processes, improving 
     coordination with State and local governments, recognizing 
     and encouraging successful conservation efforts by private 
     landowners, or developing other innovative approaches that 
     benefit species recovery and stakeholder interests 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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