[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 42 (Friday, March 5, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S1357]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1291. Mr. ROUNDS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 891 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Mrs. 
Murray, Mr. Brown, Mr. Peters, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Cantwell, Ms. Stabenow, 
Mr. Tester, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Carper, Mr. Leahy, and Mr. 
Sanders) to the bill H.R. 1319, to provide for reconciliation pursuant 
to title II of S. Con. Res. 5; which was ordered to lie on the table; 
as follows:

        At the end of title XI, add the following:

     SEC. 1100_. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE NEGATIVE ECONOMIC 
                   IMPACTS OF COVID-19 ON TRIBAL COMMUNITIES.

       It is the sense of Congress that the negative economic 
     impacts of COVID-19 include causing an economic disadvantage 
     for Tribal communities, including endemic poverty, 
     unemployment, overcrowded housing, poor health care, and poor 
     infrastructure, that results in--
       (1) preexisting conditions that cause more frequent 
     hospitalizations and serious illnesses and higher rates of 
     mortality among Native COVID-19 patients; and
       (2) systemic disparities in Tribal health care.
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