[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 128 (Monday, August 1, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3809-S3810]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5186. Mr. TOOMEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 3373, to improve the Iraq and Afghanistan Service 
Grant and the Children of Fallen Heroes Grant; which was ordered to lie 
on the table; as follows:

       Beginning on page 115, strike line 14 and all that follows 
     through page 117, line 23, and insert the following:
       ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--(1) There is 
     authorized to be appropriated to the Fund amounts specified 
     in paragraph (2) for investments in--
       ``(A) the delivery of veterans' health care associated with 
     exposure to environmental hazards in the active military, 
     naval, air, or space service in programs administered by the 
     Under Secretary for Health;
       ``(B) any expenses incident to the delivery of veterans' 
     health care and benefits associated with exposure to 
     environmental hazards in the active military, naval, air, or 
     space service, including administrative expenses, such as 
     information technology and claims processing and appeals, and 
     excluding leases as authorized or approved under section 8104 
     of this title; and
       ``(C) medical and other research relating to exposure to 
     environmental hazards.
       ``(2) The amounts specified in this paragraph are not more 
     than the following:
       ``(A) $1,400,000,000 for fiscal year 2023.
       ``(B) $5,400,000,000 for fiscal year 2024.
       ``(C) $7,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2025.
       ``(D) $11,300,000,000 for fiscal year 2026.
       ``(E) $13,100,000,000 for fiscal year 2027.
       ``(F) $15,900,000,000 for fiscal year 2028.
       ``(G) $17,900,000,000 for fiscal year 2029.
       ``(H) $21,200,000,000 for fiscal year 2030.
       ``(I) $23,400,000,000 for fiscal year 2031.
       ``(J) For fiscal year 2032 and each fiscal year thereafter, 
     an amount equal to the amount specified under this paragraph 
     for the preceding fiscal year increased by the percentage (if 
     any) by which--
       ``(i) the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: 
     Medical Care (CPI-M), as published by the Bureau of Labor 
     Statistics, for the fiscal year preceding the beginning of 
     the fiscal year for which the increase is made, exceeds
       ``(ii) the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: 
     Medical Care, as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 
     for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year described in 
     clause (i).
       ``(d) Budget Scorekeeping.--(1) Immediately upon enactment 
     of the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our 
     Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022, expenses 
     authorized to be appropriated to the Fund in subsection (c) 
     shall be estimated for fiscal year 2023 and each subsequent 
     fiscal year and treated as budget authority that is 
     considered to be direct spending--
       ``(A) in the baseline for purposes of section 257 of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 
     U.S.C. 907);
       ``(B) by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the 
     Senate and the Chair of the Committee on the Budget of the 
     House of Representatives, as appropriate, for purposes of 
     budget enforcement in the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives;
       ``(C) under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 
     621 et seq.), including in the reports required by section 
     308(b) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 639); and
       ``(D) for purposes of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 
     2010 (2 U.S.C. 931 et seq.).
       ``(2)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), amounts 
     appropriated to the Fund for fiscal year 2023 and 
     subsequently, pursuant to subsection (c) shall be counted as 
     direct spending under the Congressional Budget and 
     Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) and 
     any other Act.
       ``(B) Any amounts appropriated to the Fund for a fiscal 
     year in excess of the amount specified under subsection 
     (c)(2) for that fiscal year shall be scored as discretionary 
     budget authority and outlays for any estimate of an 
     appropriations Act.
       ``(3) Notwithstanding the Budget Scorekeeping Guidelines 
     and the accompanying list of programs and accounts set forth 
     in the joint explanatory statement of the committee of 
     conference accompanying Conference Report 105-217, and for 
     purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
     Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.) and the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.), the Fund shall be 
     treated, during the period beginning on the date of the 
     enactment of the Sergeant First Class

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     Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive 
     Toxics Act of 2022 and ending on September 30, 2031, as if it 
     were an account designated as `Appropriated Entitlements and 
     Mandatories for Fiscal Year 1997' in the joint explanatory 
     statement of the committee of conference accompanying 
     Conference Report 105-217.
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