[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 116 (Thursday, July 23, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S5538]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2284. Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself and Mr. Kaine) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill H.R. 22, to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt employees with health 
coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans Administration from being taken 
into account for purposes of determining the employers to which the 
employer mandate applies under the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of division F, insert the following:

     SEC. __. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON SEQUESTRATION.

       It is the Sense of the Senate that--
       (1) the Nation's fiscal challenges are a top priority for 
     Congress, and sequestration, non-strategic, across-the-board 
     budget cuts, remains an unreasonable and inadequate budgeting 
     tool to address the Nation's deficits and debt;
       (2) sequestration relief must be accomplished for fiscal 
     years 2016 and 2017;
       (3) sequestration relief should include equal defense and 
     non-defense relief; and
       (4) sequestration relief should be offset through targeted 
     changes in mandatory and discretionary categories and 
     revenues.
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