[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1947]
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SA 905. Mr. TESTER 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 end of title III, add the following:
SEC. 3__. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO VETERANS
HEALTH CARE.
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 veterans health care, which may include efforts
to enhance access to care for rural veterans, to address
medical workforce shortages of the Department of Veterans
Affairs, and to invest in new facilities in rural areas, 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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