S.Amdt. 5325

SA 5325. Ms. DUCKWORTH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her 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
COMPENSATING INDIVIDUALS FOR DEFAMATION.

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
providing adequate monetary compensation to any individual
who has been publicly accused of committing a criminal act or
an act of terrorism by the Department of Homeland Security,
the Department of Justice, or any officer of either
Department acting within the officer's official capacity, if
criminal charges were later dropped without the applicable
Department issuing an immediate and public retraction and
correction of the accusation, 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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