[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 168 (Wednesday, October 23, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S6111]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1004. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 948 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 3055, 
making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2020, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place in title V of division A, insert 
     the following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this division 
     may be used by the Department of Justice to argue, in the 
     conduct of any litigation to which the United States, or an 
     agency or officer thereof is a party, that any provision of 
     the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 
     111-148; 124 Stat. 119) or of the Health Care and Education 
     Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-152; 124 Stat. 
     1029), including any amendment made by such Acts, is 
     unconstitutional or is invalid or unenforceable on any 
     ground, including that certain provisions of the Patient 
     Protection and Affordable Care Act are not severable from 
     section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as added 
     by section 1501 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care 
     Act (Public Law 111-148; 124 Stat. 242).
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