A Democratic amendment with no cosponsors
Changes S.Con.Res. 7 — An original concurrent resolution 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.
Offered
Offered, and not voted on yet. Most amendments never get a vote: the Senate takes up the bill and moves on without them.
Its path through Congress
- Introduced
- Pending Consideration
What this amendment would do
Mr. Reed submitted amendment SA 149 to the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2025. The purpose of this amendment is to add a new point of order to title IV that protects efforts to combat avian influenza and lower egg prices.
What It Aims to Change or Add
- It adds a rule stating 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 would obstruct Federal resources from addressing the current avian influenza outbreak and protecting the US egg supply from shortages and price spikes.
- It sets a rule that this point of order may only be waived or suspended in the Senate by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.
- It requires an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on this point of order.
- 2/19/2025
- Senate amendment submitted
This bill has no cosponsors