Text of Senate Amendment 1586

On 2025-04-03, Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) delivered a floor speech titled "Text Of Senate Amendment 1586" in the Senate.

Text of Senate Amendment 1586

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 60 (Thursday, April 3, 2025)] [Senate] [Page S2232] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] SA 1586. 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 RESTRUCTURING OR DOWNSIZING OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES IN A MANNER THAT WOULD HARM AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES. 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 agencies, which may include legislation preventing a reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services that would erode coordination of efforts to improve the independence or inclusion of people with disabilities, such as by splitting up across multiple agencies essential programs to assist people with disabilities, 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. ______