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. Kaine submitted amendment SA 370 to the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2025. The purpose of this amendment is to add a new section to title IV of the budget resolution.
- It creates a point of order in the Senate against considering any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report.
- It targets legislation that terminates, reclassifies, or furloughs career civil servants at the Department of Defense.
- Specifically, it protects those career civil servants who work on or handle sensitive weapon systems.
How It Can Be Overridden
- The rule can only be waived or suspended in the Senate by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.
- An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, is also required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised against this rule.
- 2/20/2025
- Senate amendment submitted
This bill has no cosponsors