S.Amdt. 635

SA 635. 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 end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL ETHICS LAWS.

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 ethics
in Government, which may include legislation ensuring
compliance with all Federal ethics laws by all employees in
existing executive branch agencies or compliance with Federal
ethics laws by employees of new executive branch entities
such as the Department of Government Efficiency and which may
include receiving relevant ethics training before carrying
out activities to cut Government employees, agencies, or
access private agency data, 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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