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Text of Senate Amendment 1473

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On 2025-04-03, Senator Angela D. Alsobrooks (D-MD) delivered a floor speech titled "Text Of Senate Amendment 1473" in the Senate.

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Text of Senate Amendment 1473

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025)] [Senate] [Page S2216] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] SA 1473. Ms. ALSOBROOKS (for herself, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. Kaine) 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 REQUIRING THE UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION TO CONDUCT A SECTION 332 INVESTIGATION INTO THE IMPACTS ON BUSINESSES AND CONSUMERS OF TARIFFS ON MEXICO AND CANADA. 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 studying the economic impacts of tariffs, which may include directing executive agencies, which may include the United States International Trade Commission, to conduct investigations relating to the impacts of tariffs on businesses and consumers 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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Text of Senate Amendment 1473 Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025)] [Senate] [Page S2216] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] SA 1473. Ms. ALSOBROOKS (for herself, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. Kaine) 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 REQUIRING THE UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION TO CONDUCT A SECTION 332 INVESTIGATION INTO THE IMPACTS ON BUSINESSES AND CONSUMERS OF TARIFFS ON MEXICO AND CANADA. 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 studying the economic impacts of tariffs, which may include directing executive agencies, which may include the United States International Trade Commission, to conduct investigations relating to the impacts of tariffs on businesses and consumers 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. ______