S.Amdt. 2772

SA 2772. Ms. KLOBUCHAR submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. PREMERGER FILING FEES TO BE RETAINED AND USED FOR
EXPENSES.

Beginning in fiscal year 2025, and in each fiscal year
thereafter, all premerger notification filing fees collected
pursuant to section 7A of the 8 Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 18a)
shall be--
(1) retained and used for expenses necessary for the
enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws by the Antitrust
Division of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade
Commission, to remain available until expended; and
(2) treated as direct spending described in section
250(c)(8)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900(c)(8)(A)).
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