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Christopher Murphy (D-CT)

S.Amdt. 1921

S.Amdt. 1921 · Senate amendment

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

  1. Introduced
  2. Pending Consideration

What this amendment would do

MR. MURPHY submitted SA 1921 to the concurrent resolution establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025.

  • The purpose of this amendment is to create a point of order in the Senate against legislation that would reduce FEMA assistance to disaster survivors.

  • It aims to add a rule making it out of order to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that reduces the amount of assistance awarded to disaster survivors by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including assistance through the Disaster Relief Fund.

  • It allows this rule to be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.

  • It also 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 section.