[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 5 (Monday, January 9, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S157-S158]
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  SA 29. Mr. CARDIN (for himself, Ms. Hirono, and Mr. Booker) submitted 
an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent 
resolution S. Con. Res. 3, setting forth the congressional budget for 
the United States Government for fiscal year 2017 and setting forth the 
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2018 through 2026; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title IV, add the following:

     SEC. 4__. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST REDUCING ACCESS TO, OR 
                   AFFORDABILITY OF, HEALTHCARE SERVICES FOR 
                   MINORITY AND DISENFRANCHISED POPULATIONS OF THE 
                   UNITED STATES.

       (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, 
     amendment between the Houses, or conference report that would 
     reduce access to, or affordability of, healthcare services 
     for minority and disenfranchised populations of the United 
     States, including American Indians and Alaskan Natives, Asian 
     Americans, African Americans, Latino Americans, and Native 
     Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders, by reversing the 
     significant gains in access to and affordability of 
     healthcare services made by the Affordable Care Act, 
     including--
       (1) the expansion of Medicaid coverage to low-income 
     Americans with incomes up to 138 percent of the Federal 
     poverty level in the States that have implemented the 
     Medicaid expansion, benefitting 51 percent of American 
     Indians and Alaska Natives, 32 percent of African Americans, 
     26 percent of Asian Americans, and 25 percent of Latino 
     Americans; and
       (2) the establishment of the cost-sharing reduction tax 
     credits, allowing 19 percent of American Indians and Alaska 
     Natives, 23 percent of African Americans, 18 percent of Asian 
     Americans, and 16 percent of Latino Americans to become newly 
     eligible for essential healthcare coverage.
       (b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or 
     suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
     fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative 
     vote of three-fifths of the Members

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     of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to 
     sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of 
     order raised under subsection (a).
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