[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 137. Mr. REED (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, 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 CUTTING LONG-TERM SERVICES 
                   AND SUPPORTS FOR SENIORS.

       (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 
     cut long term services and supports for seniors, including 
     nursing home care and home and community-based care, under 
     the Medicaid program under title XIX of the Social Security 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) by reducing Federal funding of 
     State Medicaid programs, including by instituting a block 
     grant model for Federal funding of State Medicaid programs or 
     imposing per capita caps on Federal funding of State Medicaid 
     programs.
       (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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