[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1902]
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SA 614. Mr. WICKER (for himself, Mr. Toomey, and Mr. Warner)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent
resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting forth the congressional budget for
the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE
GROWING FISCAL THREAT OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE TO
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution
for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports
relating to supporting or encouraging research that leads to
identifying an Alzheimer's disease biomarker, early
diagnostics tool, or therapy to delay the onset or halt the
progression of Alzheimer's disease in order to provide a
significant cost savings to the Federal Government, by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.
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