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S.Amdt. 1967

Rep. Bennet
Age: 62 years
Colorado
Introduced
4/4/2025
Sponsored by
Michael Bennet
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. Bennet submitted amendment SA 1967 to be proposed to amendment SA 1717 to the concurrent resolution H. Con. Res. 14. The purpose of this amendment is to add a new section establishing a point of order against legislation that increases the national debt.

This amendment aims to change the rules in the Senate by making it not in order to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that increases the national debt.

  • This restriction 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 legislation that increases the national debt.