Text of Senate Amendment 1585

On 2025-04-03, Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) delivered a floor speech titled "Text Of Senate Amendment 1585" in the Senate.

Text of Senate Amendment 1585

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025)] [Senate] [Pages S2231-S2232] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] SA 1585. Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the concurrent resolution H. Con. Res. 14, establishing 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, insert the following: SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PREVENTING THE INDISCRIMINATE TERMINATION OF SCIENTISTS, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS STAFF, FRONTLINE HEALTH CARE WORKERS, DRUG AND MEDICAL DEVICE REVIEWERS, AND OTHER FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES WHO PROTECT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF AMERICANS. 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 the Federal workforce, which may include preventing the indiscriminate termination of scientists, emergency preparedness staff, frontline health [[Page S2232]] care workers, drug and medical device reviewers, or other Federal employees at the Department of Health and Human Services who protect the health and safety of Americans, 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. ______