S.Amdt. 1948

SA 1948. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her 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, insert the following:

SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PRESERVING
PUBLIC SAFETY AND NATIONAL SECURITY.

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
preserving public safety and the national security of the
United States, which may include exempting employees who work
at naval shipyards, other employees whose job duties are
critical to protecting the national security of the United
States, or employees whose job duties involve protecting
public safety from executive orders and directives from the
Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management
and Budget, including such measures as instituting a Federal
hiring freeze, instituting a deferred resignation program,
removing employees in a probationary period, imposing
restrictions on the ability of employees to collectively
bargain, or undertaking reductions in force, 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 2025 through 2034.
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