[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 116 (Thursday, July 23, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S5550]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2309. Mr. FLAKE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2266 submitted by Mr. McConnell and intended to be 
proposed 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:

       Strike paragraph (1) of section 15002(b) (relating to 
     authorization of appropriations for the Appalachian regional 
     development program)) and insert the following:
       (1) by striking paragraph (5) of subsection (a) and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(5) $90,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2016 through 
     2021.'';
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