S.Amdt. 1952

SA 1952. 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. ___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION SIGNIFICANTLY
INCREASING THE DEFICIT WHEN INTEREST EXPENSES
ARE ALREADY HIGH.

(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,
based on estimates prepared by the Congressional Budget
Office, would increase the deficit by more than
$100,000,000,000 over the period of the budget year and the
ensuing 9 fiscal years if the most recent budget and economic
outlook by the Congressional Budget Office projects net
Federal interest outlays of more than 3 percent of the gross
domestic product of the United States in any of the those
years.
(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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