[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 51 (Thursday, March 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S2070]
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  SA 1040. Mr. ALEXANDER 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 TO PREVENT THE 
                   CROWDING OUT OF OTHER STATE PRIORITIES, SUCH AS 
                   FUNDING PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION, AND TO PROVIDE 
                   STATES THE FLEXIBILITY AND BUDGETARY CERTAINTY 
                   THEY NEED TO SERVE THEIR MEDICAID 
                   BENEFICIARIES.

       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 policies that ensure Medicaid costs do not 
     continue to crowd out other State spending priorities, 
     particularly public education, and that provide States with 
     the flexibility and budgetary certainty to implement Medicaid 
     programs which build off of successful State innovations to 
     ensure our Nation's most vulnerable Americans have improved 
     access to quality, low cost health care, 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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