[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S2220]
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  SA 1503. Mr. WELCH 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 PROMOTING 
                   RURAL BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT.

       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 
     promoting rural broadband deployment, which may include 
     prohibiting the rescission or reallocation of funding under 
     the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment Program, 
     ensuring the National Telecommunications and Information 
     Administration distributes previously allocated and 
     appropriated funds to States in a timely fashion, or 
     prohibiting the rescission of funding under the ReConnect 
     Program of the Department of Agriculture, 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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