[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 169 (Thursday, October 19, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6671-S6672]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1469. Mr. CASSIDY 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 title III, add the following:

     SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO 
                   LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF CARE IN 
                   MEDICAID.

       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, 
     and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or 
     more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments

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     between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating 
     to legislation that would improve the quality of care in the 
     Medicaid program, which may include streamlining care 
     delivery, rewarding high-quality care, increasing the ability 
     of States to innovate, improving oversight of waste, fraud, 
     and abuse, and improving quality metrics, 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 2018 through 
     2022 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2018 through 
     2027.
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