A Democratic amendment with no cosponsors
Changes 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.
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
This amendment would change the congressional budget resolution by creating a deficit-neutral reserve fund related to oversight and ethics guidance.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate would be allowed to revise committee allocations or make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, which is a record of how legislation affects the deficit.
These changes would apply to bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that provide oversight and ethics guidance to executive branch officials to prevent unethical behaviors.
The specific unethical behaviors mentioned include selling influence to entities with business before the executive branch, promising favorable regulatory actions for personal or political gain, or using an official position to extract outsized returns for the sale of goods and rights to entities with business before the executive branch.
The amendment specifies that this can occur by the amounts provided in the legislation for those purposes.
The legislation must not increase the deficit over the total period of fiscal years 2025 through 2034.
- 4/3/2025
- Senate amendment submitted
This bill has no cosponsors