[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 195 (Thursday, November 30, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S7594]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1710. Mr. BOOKER (for himself, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Markey, Mr. 
Menendez, Mr. Heinrich, Mrs. Feinstein, and Mr. Blumenthal) submitted 
an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1618 proposed by 
Mr. McConnell (for Mr. Hatch (for himself and Ms. Murkowski)) to the 
bill H.R. 1, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V 
of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subpart A of part I of subtitle C, add the 
     following:

     SEC. 13303. EXCEPTION TO REDUCED RATES BASED ON MEDICARE 
                   PROGRAM SEQUESTRATION.

       (a) In General.--In any case in which there is a 
     sequestration under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 
     (2 U.S.C. 931 et seq.) that reduces budgetary resources for 
     the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.) because of a debit that is 
     attributable to the enactment of this title or the amendments 
     made by this title, the provisions of the Internal Revenue 
     Code of 1986 which are amended by section 13001 and 13002 
     shall each be amended to read as if the amendments made by 
     such section had not been enacted.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall apply to taxable years beginning after the first fiscal 
     year to which a sequestration under subsection (a) applies.
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