[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2231-S2232]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1585. 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:

     SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PREVENTING 
                   THE INDISCRIMINATE TERMINATION OF SCIENTISTS, 
                   EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS STAFF, FRONTLINE HEALTH 
                   CARE WORKERS, DRUG AND MEDICAL DEVICE 
                   REVIEWERS, AND OTHER FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AT THE 
                   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES WHO 
                   PROTECT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF AMERICANS.

       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 
     Federal workforce, which may include preventing the 
     indiscriminate termination of scientists, emergency 
     preparedness staff, frontline health

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     care workers, drug and medical device reviewers, or other 
     Federal employees at the Department of Health and Human 
     Services who protect the health and safety of Americans, 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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