[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S286-S287]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 139. Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. Merkley) 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

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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 DEBT 
                   INCURRED FROM HEALTH CARE EXPENSES.

       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 additional financial protections for consumers 
     from the effects of any changes to the Patient Protection and 
     Affordable Care Act, the Medicare program, the Medicaid 
     program, or the Children's Health Insurance Program that 
     result in increases in the costs of health care and in health 
     care-related debts on consumer credit reports, 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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