[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S286]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 136. Mr. CARDIN (for himself, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Booker, Mr. Brown, 
Mr. Carper, Mr. Van Hollen, and Ms. Warren) 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 REDUCING ACCESS TO, OR 
                   AFFORDABILITY OF, HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOR 
                   MINORITIES AND OTHER POPULATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN 
                   HISTORICALLY SUBJECT TO DISCRIMINATION.

       (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, as 
     determined by the Director of the Congressional Budget 
     Office, would reduce access to, or affordability of, health 
     care services for minorities and other populations that have 
     been historically subject to discrimination, including 
     American Indians and Alaskan Natives, Asian Americans, 
     African Americans, Latino Americans, and Native Hawaiians or 
     other Pacific Islanders, by reversing the significant gains 
     in access to and affordability of health care services made 
     by the Affordable Care Act, including--
       (1) the expansion of Medicaid coverage to low-income 
     Americans with incomes up to 138 percent of the Federal 
     poverty level in the States that have implemented the 
     Medicaid expansion, benefitting 51 percent of American 
     Indians and Alaska Natives, 32 percent of African Americans, 
     26 percent of Asian Americans, and 25 percent of Latino 
     Americans; and
       (2) the establishment of financial assistance, including 
     premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions, allowing 19 
     percent of American Indians and Alaska Natives, 23 percent of 
     African Americans, 18 percent of Asian Americans, and 16 
     percent of Latino Americans to gain access to essential 
     health care coverage.
       (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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