S.Amdt. 1453Senate119th Congress (2025-2027)

S.Amdt. 1453

Submitted April 3, 2025

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Senate amendment submitted

April 3, 2025

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SA 1453. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. Bennet, Mr.
Wyden, Mr. Lujan, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Merkley, Ms. Rosen, and Ms. Cortez
Masto) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him 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 in title IV, add the following:

SEC. 4___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT WOULD
PROVIDE FOR THE SALE OF PUBLIC LAND TO REDUCE
THE FEDERAL DEFICIT.

(a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate
to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment,
amendment between the Houses, or conference report that would
provide for the sale of any public land that uses the
proceeds of the sale to reduce the Federal deficit.
(b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or
suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative
vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly
chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of
the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under
subsection (a).
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