S.Amdt. 613

SA 613. Mr. MERKLEY 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:

On page 49, strike lines 16 through 18 and insert the
following:
(j) Submissions.--In the Senate, only on or after the date
on which the Director of the Congressional Budget Office
certifies (based on the most recent data available to the
Director) that inflation (as measured in either the average
of the annualized changes in the most recently published
monthly reports on the consumer price index for all-urban
consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the
Department of Labor or the previous year's unadjusted annual
change in that index) is not more than 2 percent, the
committees named in the subsections of this section may
submit their recommendations to the
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