[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S289]
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SA 156. Mr. LEE 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
PREVENTING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FROM
PROVIDING ENHANCED FUNDING FOR ANY STATE'S
EXPANSION OF THE MEDICAID PROGRAM.
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 eliminating the enhanced Federal medical
assistance percentages for the Medicaid expansion added by
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, without
raising new revenue, 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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