S.Amdt. 577

SA 577. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. Wyden) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution
S. Con. Res. 7, setting forth 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 end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO LIMITING
MANDATORY FACIAL RECOGNITION.

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
strengthening American civil liberty protections, which may
include legislation that would preserve travelers' use of
approved documentation in lieu of facial recognition
technology to verify their identity at Transportation
Security Administration checkpoints or prevent the
establishment of a national surveillance system run by the
Government, 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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