[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 167 (Tuesday, October 17, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6488-S6489]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1147. Mr. VAN HOLLEN submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 1116 proposed by Mr. Enzi to the concurrent 
resolution H. Con. Res. 71, establishing the congressional budget for 
the United States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the 
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle A of title IV, add the following:

     SEC. 41__. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST ENDING MEDICARE AS WE KNOW 
                   IT.

       (a) In General.--When the Senate is considering a bill, 
     joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the 
     Houses, or conference report, if a point of order is made by 
     a Senator against a provision that eliminates the guaranteed 
     health

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     insurance benefits for seniors and people with disabilities 
     under the Medicare program, increases costs for seniors and 
     people with disabilities by establishing a Medicare voucher 
     or premium support plan that provides limited payments to 
     Medicare beneficiaries to purchase health care in the private 
     health insurance market, or weakens the traditional Medicare 
     program by diverting the healthiest enrollees into private 
     plans and undermining traditional Medicare's ability to 
     control costs while offering access to a broad range of 
     providers, and the point of order is sustained by the Chair, 
     that provision shall be stricken from the measure and may not 
     be offered as an amendment from the floor.
       (b) Form of the Point of Order.--A point of order under 
     subsection (a) may be raised by a Senator as provided in 
     section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 
     U.S.C. 644(e)).
       (c) Conference Reports.--When the Senate is considering a 
     conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in 
     relation to, a bill or joint resolution, upon a point of 
     order being made by any Senator pursuant to subsection (a), 
     and such point of order being sustained, such material 
     contained in such conference report or House amendment shall 
     be stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the 
     question of whether the Senate shall recede from its 
     amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in 
     the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may 
     be, which further amendment shall consist of only that 
     portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the 
     case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion in the Senate 
     shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order 
     is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment 
     derived from such conference report by operation of this 
     subsection), no further amendment shall be in order.
       (d) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal.--In the Senate, this 
     section may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative 
     vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chose and sworn. An 
     affirmative vote of three-fifths of 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 
     this section.
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