S.Amdt. 5196

SA 5196. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. Ossoff) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution
S. Con. Res. 33, setting forth the congressional budget for the United
States Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2027 through 2035; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
PROHIBITING TRADING AND HOLDING OF STOCKS AND
SIMILAR ASSETS BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, THEIR
SPOUSES, AND THEIR DEPENDENT CHILDREN.

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
prohibiting the trading and holding of stocks, non-
diversified mutual funds and exchange traded funds,
commodities, futures, event contracts, and digital assets by
Members of Congress, their spouses, and their dependent
children, which may include the establishment of penalties
for noncompliance, 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 2026 through 2035.
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