[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 21 (Thursday, February 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S535-S536]
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  SA 788. Ms. COLLINS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 5, setting forth the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 
2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 2022 through 2030; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place in title IV, add the following:

     SEC. 4___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT WOULD 
                   REDUCE THE ELIGIBILITY OF VETERANS TO SEEK 
                   CONVENIENT HEALTH CARE FROM COMMUNITY PROVIDERS 
                   CLOSER TO THEIR HOMES.

       (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, 
     amendment between the Houses, or conference report that would 
     reduce the eligibility of veterans enrolled in the health 
     care system of the Department of Veterans Affairs to seek 
     health care from community providers and, in turn, reduce 
     convenient access by such veterans to health care closer to 
     the homes of such veterans.
       (b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or 
     suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
     fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative 
     vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly 
     chosen and sworn, shall

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     be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair 
     on a point of order raised under subsection (a).
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