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
- Mr. Van Hollen submitted amendment numbered SA 1856 to the concurrent resolution H. Con. Res. 14.
- The purpose of this amendment is to create a specific rule in the Senate regarding tax cuts.
What It Aims to Change or Add
- It adds a point of order in the Senate against considering any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that provides a larger tax cut in real dollars for millionaires and billionaires than it provides for middle class families.
- It states that this rule can 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 a point of order raised under this new rule.
- 4/4/2025
- Senate amendment submitted
This bill has no cosponsors