[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S2194]
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  SA 1316. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him to the concurrent resolution H. Con. Res. 14, 
establishing 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 
                   PREVENTING VETERANS SUICIDE AND STRENGTHENING 
                   MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.

       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 and strengthening mental health 
     services, including legislation that would ensure 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 the fiscal year 2024 
     levels due to hiring freezes, deferred resignation, buyout 
     offers, reductions in force, mass terminations, layoffs, 
     funding freezes, or reductions in services or outreach due to 
     cancellations of contracts, 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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