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DemocratAmendment · S.Amdt. 1787· Senate(119-SAMDT-1787)

S.Amdt. 1787

Rep. Kaine
Age: 68 years
Virginia
Introduced
4/4/2025
Sponsored by
Timothy Kaine
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

Mr. Kaine submitted amendment SA 1787 to the concurrent resolution for the fiscal year 2025 congressional budget. Common sense tells us we need to keep a close eye on how our government treats the people doing critical national security jobs. The purpose of this amendment is to create a new point of order in the Senate against certain legislation.

Changes and Additions to the Bill

  • The amendment aims to add a rule that makes it not in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that terminates, reclassifies, or furloughs career civil servants at the Department of Defense who work on or handle sensitive weapon systems.

  • It sets a strict rule for how this can be bypassed: the 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.

  • It also requires an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Senators to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this rule.