[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 112 (Saturday, June 28, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S4028]
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  SA 2642. Mr. REED submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2360 proposed by Mr. Thune (for Mr. Graham) to the bill 
H.R. 1, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. 
Res. 14; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. APPROPRIATIONS FOR A LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY 
                   ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

       In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is 
     appropriated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
     for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not 
     otherwise appropriated, $1,000,000,000, to remain available 
     until expended, to carry out the Low-Income Home Energy 
     Assistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8621 through 8630), 
     including to help low-income households afford the higher 
     energy costs projected to be caused by this Act, and to 
     provide for sufficient staff of the Department of Health and 
     Human Services to oversee the distribution of funding under 
     the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981.
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