[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 71 (Wednesday, April 22, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2033-S2034]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5397. Mr. BOOKER submitted 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

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Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the appropriate 
budgetary levels for fiscal years 2027 through 2035; 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 TAKING 
                   CARE OF OUR NATION'S VETERANS.

         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 taking 
     care of our nation's veterans, which may include prohibiting 
     additional supplemental funding for President Trump's 
     unauthorized war against Iran until every veteran on the 
     health care waitlist of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
     has a scheduled appointment and the median wait time for 
     veterans seeking doctor's appointments at the Department has 
     been cut in half, 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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