[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 5 (Monday, January 9, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S160]
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SA 48. Mr. WHITEHOUSE (for himself and Mr. Brown) 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 III, add the following:
SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ACCESS TO
MEDICARE FOR ALL AMERICANS.
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 providing all Americans, regardless of age, the
ability to buy into the Medicare program to secure quality,
affordable health insurance coverage 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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