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 add a point of order, which is a rule used to object to a bill, to prevent the consideration of certain legislation.
It would prohibit the Senate from considering any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that relates to:
- Reducing the life of the Medicare program or cutting benefits for current or future beneficiaries.
- Reducing or eliminating Federal Medicaid funding available to States.
- Imposing additional barriers to health care coverage, such as limiting access to insurance through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace by changing eligibility criteria or reducing premium tax credits.
- Restricting eligibility to, or reducing the amount of, Social Security Old-Age and Survivors Insurance benefits, Disability Insurance benefits, or Supplemental Security Income benefits.
The amendment states that this rule can only be waived or suspended by a vote of three-fifths of the members of the Senate.
Additionally, a three-fifths vote of the Senate would be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair regarding this point of order.
- 4/4/2025
- Senate amendment submitted
This bill has no cosponsors