[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2198-S2199]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1349. Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by her 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

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     SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO REQUIRING 
                   AN IMPACT ASSESSMENT BY THE OFFICE OF THE 
                   INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 
                   AFFAIRS REGARDING THE LARGE-SCALE WORKFORCE 
                   REDUCTION AT MEDICAL CLINICS AND OUTPATIENT 
                   FACILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT AND ITS POTENTIAL 
                   EFFECTS ON SERVICE DELIVERY, VETERAN WAIT 
                   TIMES, AND OVERALL HEALTH CARE QUALITY.

       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 
     requiring an impact assessment by the Office of the Inspector 
     General of the Department of Veterans Affairs regarding the 
     large-scale workforce reduction at medical clinics and 
     outpatient facilities of the Department and its potential 
     effects on service delivery, veteran wait times, and overall 
     health care quality 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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