[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 2308. 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:

       On page 888, strike lines 7 through 20 and insert the 
     following:
       ``(i) reduction of long-term congestion, including impacts 
     on a national, regional, and statewide basis;
       ``(ii) an increase in the speed, reliability, and 
     accessibility of the movement of people or freight; or
       ``(iii) improvement of transportation safety, including 
     reducing transportation accident and serious injuries and 
     fatalities;
       ``(G) is justified based on the ability of the project to 
     achieve generation of national economic benefits that 
     reasonably exceed the costs of the project; and
       ``(H) is supported by a sufficient amount
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