S.Amdt. 628

SA 628. 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:

At the appropriate place in title IV, add the following:

SEC. 4___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST RECONCILIATION LEGISLATION
DURING A PERIOD OF HIGH INFLATION.

(a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate
to consider any bill pursuant to title II unless the Director
of the Congressional Budget Office certifies (based on the
most recent data available to the Director) that inflation,
as measured by 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
unadjusted annual change of the previous year in that index,
is equal to or below 2 percent.
(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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