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DemocratAmendment · S.Amdt. 1571· Senate(119-SAMDT-1571)

S.Amdt. 1571

Rep. Cortez Masto
Age: 62 years
Nevada
Introduced
4/3/2025
Sponsored by
Catherine Cortez Masto
Cosponsors
None
Changes bill
119-HCONRES-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.
  1. Introduced
  2. Pending Consideration

What this amendment would do

  • Ms. Cortez Masto submitted amendment SA 1571 to the concurrent resolution H. Con. Res. 14.

  • The purpose of this amendment is to add a point of order against funding immigration enforcement actions at churches or other houses of worship.

  • This aims to make it out of order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that provides funds for immigration enforcement actions at churches or other houses of worship.

  • It also sets a rule that this point of order may only be waived or suspended in the Senate by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.

  • Additionally, an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, is required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section.