Amendment · S.Amdt. 500· Senate(119-SAMDT-500)

S.Amdt. 500

Age: 66 years

Minnesota

Changes bill: 119-SCONRES-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.

What this amendment would do

Ms. Klobuchar submitted SA 500 to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 7 for the fiscal year 2025 congressional budget.
The amendment aims to add a new point of order to title IV.
It makes it not in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that would reduce, limit, or otherwise cut health care coverage, benefits, or services available to veterans, including those provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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 under this section.