[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 51 (Thursday, March 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S2080]
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SA 1099. Mr. MORAN (for himself, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Alexander, Mr.
Durbin, Mr. Graham, Mr. Markey, Ms. Collins, Mr. Coons, Mr. Johnson,
Mr. Wicker, Mr. Casey, Mr. Burr, Mr. Brown, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Schumer,
Mr. Roberts, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Peters, Mr. Kirk, Ms.
Hirono, Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Reed, Mr. Toomey, Mr. Franken, Mr. Hatch, Mr.
Whitehouse, Mr. Gardner, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Booker, Mr. King,
Mr. Merkley, Ms. Baldwin, and Mr. Blumenthal) proposed an amendment 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; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROMOTE BIOMEDICAL
RESEARCH.
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 Federal investments in precision medicine and
biomedical research, which may include increasing funding to
account for inflation, to support finding ways to prevent,
treat, and cure diseases or conditions like Alzheimer's and
other life-threatening or chronic illnesses, and to provide
long-term 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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