[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 29776]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




ANNOUNCEMENT OF INTENTION TO OFFER MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES ON H.R. 
      1, MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG AND MODERNIZATION ACT OF 2003

  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 7(c) of rule XXII, I 
hereby give notice of my intention to offer a motion to instruct on 
H.R. 1, the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003.
  The form of the motion is as follows:

       Mr. Inslee of Washington moves that the managers on the 
     part of the House at the conference on the disagreeing votes 
     of the two Houses on the Senate amendment to the bill H.R. 1 
     be instructed as follows:
       (1) To reject the provisions of subtitle C of title II of 
     the House bill.
       (2) To reject the provisions of section 231 of the Senate 
     amendment.
       (3) Within the scope of conference, to increase payments by 
     an amount equal to the amount of savings attributable to the 
     rejection of the aforementioned provisions to--
       (A) raise the average standardized amount for hospitals in 
     rural and other urban areas to the level of the rate for 
     those in larger urban areas; and
       (B) to raise the physicians' work geographic index for any 
     locality in which such index is less than 1.0 to a work 
     geographic index of 1.0.
       (4) To insist upon section 601 of the House bill.

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