To create a point of order against legislation that would create more debt over a 30-year period than has accumulated over the past 249 years.

SA 1758. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Peters, Mr.
Blumenthal, and Mr. Warnock) proposed an amendment to amendment SA 1717
proposed by Mr. Graham 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; as follows:

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On page S2380, April 4, 2025, the following appears: SA 1758.
Mr. MERKLEY 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:

The online Record has been corrected to read as follows: SA
1758. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Peters, Mr.
Blumenthal, and Mr. Warnock) proposed an amendment to amendment SA
1717 proposed by Mr. Graham 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;
as follows:

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At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST ADDING MORE TO OUR DEBT IN
ONE BILL THAN HAS ACCUMULATED SINCE THE
NATION'S FOUNDING.

(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
cause the Federal debt held by the public at the conclusion
of the 30-fiscal year period beginning with the budget year
provided for in the most recently adopted concurrent
resolution on the budget in the Senate to increase by more
than the amount of the gross debt accrued since July 4, 1776,
relative to the baseline of the Congressional Budget Office
prepared in accordance with section 257 of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C.
907).
(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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