Text of Senate Amendment 1616

On 2025-04-03, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivered a floor speech titled "Text Of Senate Amendment 1616" in the Senate.

Text of Senate Amendment 1616

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025)] [Senate] [Page S2236] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] SA 1616. Mr. WHITEHOUSE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him 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. ___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST TAX BREAKS FOR OFFSHORING JOBS AND PROFITS. (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that includes corporate tax breaks for outsourcing American jobs and shifting profits offshore. (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). ______