[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 5 (Monday, January 9, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S158]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 32. Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Whitehouse,
and Ms. Hassan) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her
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 III, add the following:
SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
IMPORTATION OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution
for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports
relating to requiring the Secretary of Health and Human
Service to promulgate regulations permitting American
consumers to legally and safely import into the United States
from approved Canadian pharmacies prescription drugs for
personal use by the amounts provided in such legislation for
those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over either the period of the total of
fiscal years 2017 through 2021 or the period of the total of
fiscal years 2017 through 2026.
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