[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 71 (Wednesday, April 22, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S2009]
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  SA 5235. Mr. MERKLEY proposed an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 33, setting forth the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 
2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 2027 through 2035; as follows:

       At the end of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE 
                   IMPACTS OF HEDGE FUND OWNERSHIP OF SINGLE-
                   FAMILY HOMES AND RENT PRICES.

       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 reported by the Committee on 
     the Judiciary of the Senate, amendments, amendments between 
     the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to 
     Department of Justice antitrust enforcement to help American 
     families, which may include reducing the single-family 
     housing market share of large single-family housing investors 
     or addressing the impact of these investors' activities on 
     housing availability, housing affordability, home ownership, 
     eviction rates, home maintenance, and gentrification, by 
     deeming acquisitions of single-family homes by large 
     institutional investors to be contracts in restraint of trade 
     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 2026 
     through 2035.
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