[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 10, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S212]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 65. Mr. MANCHIN (for himself, Mr. Warner, Mr. Brown, Mr. Coons, 
Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Kaine, and Mr. Casey) 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 LEGISLATION THAT WOULD 
                   REDUCE BLACK LUNG BENEFITS FOR MINERS DISABLED 
                   BY BLACK LUNG DISEASE AND THEIR SURVIVORS.

       (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 
     eliminate or weaken the amendments to the Black Lung Benefits 
     Act (30 U.S.C. 901 et seq.) made by section 1556 of the 
     Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-
     148), which--
       (1) require the presumption of total disability or death 
     caused by pneumoconiosis for coal miners who worked for at 
     least 15 years in underground mining and who suffer or 
     suffered from a totally disabling respiratory impairment; and
       (2) provide automatic entitlement for eligible survivors of 
     miners who were themselves entitled to receive benefits as a 
     result of a lifetime claim.
       (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 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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