[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 51 (Thursday, March 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S2079]
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SA 1092. Mr. VITTER 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 INCREASING
ACCESS TO SAFE AFFORDABLE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
ACROSS STATE LINES, TO ALLOW CHILDREN WITH
CANCER AND OTHER SERIOUS ILLNESSES TO OBTAIN
LIFE-SAVING MEDICATIONS.
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 developing methods that open interstate commerce
to allow families increased access to safe affordable
prescription drugs across State lines, to allow children with
cancer and other serious illnesses to obtain life-saving
medications, 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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