[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 117 (Friday, July 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S5690]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2334. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 2266 proposed by Mr. McConnell 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 596, beginning on line 15, strike ``the following 
     amounts:'' and all that follows through line 19, and insert 
     ``$2,450,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2016 through 
     2019.''.
       On page 597, lines 13 through 16, strike ``up to $5,000,000 
     from the amount appropriated in each fiscal year under 
     subsection (a) of this section for the use of the Northeast 
     Corridor Commission'' and insert ``, from the amounts 
     appropriated pursuant to subsection (a), up to $550,000,000 
     for each of the fiscal years 2016 and 2017, up to 
     $700,000,000 for fiscal year 2018, and up to $800,000,000 for 
     fiscal year 2019, for the Northeast Corridor Infrastructure 
     and Operations Advisory Commission''.
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