[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 5 (Monday, January 9, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S160]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  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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