[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2234-S2235]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1606. Mrs. BLACKBURN 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 DIRECTING 
                   THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO AWARD GRANTS TO 
                   ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.

       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

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     between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating 
     to directing the Attorney General to award grants to eligible 
     entities to hire and retain law enforcement officers, 
     including by awarding bonuses to law enforcement officers, 
     target, combat, and prosecute vehicle thefts, including 
     carjackings, prevent violent crime by prioritizing stringent 
     sentences for repeat offenders, including juvenile offenders, 
     use public safety tools such as bail and pretrial detention 
     to prevent dangerous offenders from returning to communities, 
     acquire resources to better target drug and fentanyl crimes, 
     detain and deport illegal aliens who have committed criminal 
     offenses in the United States, eliminate investigatory 
     backlogs and more quickly process criminal evidence, or 
     combat interstate child trafficking, 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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