[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S282]
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SA 111. Mr. MANCHIN (for himself, Mr. Casey, Mr. Warner, Mr. Brown,
Ms. Heitkamp, and Mrs. Murray) 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 HEALTH
AND PENSION BENEFITS FOR MINERS.
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 the inclusion of additional retired miners in the
Multiemployer Health Benefit Plan and increased funding of
the 1974 UMWA Pension Plan, 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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