[History of Bills, Volume 143 (1997)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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H.R. 406--A bill to establish the Independent Commission on Medicare 
    to make recommendations on how to best match the structure of the 
    Medicare Program with the funding made available for the program 
    by Congress, to provide for expedited consideration in Congress of 
    the Commission's recommendations, and to establish a default 
    process for meeting congressional spending targets for the 
    Medicare Program if Congress rejects the Commission's 
    recommendations; to the Committees on Ways and Means; Commerce; 
    Rules; the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
    the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
    fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.


By Mr. ENGLISH of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. McHale, Mr. Saxton, 
Mr. Canady of Florida, Mr. Graham, Mr. Ehlers, and Mr. LoBiondo), H152 
[9JA]

  Cosponsors added, H245 [21JA], H453 [11FE], H669 [26FE], H889 
  [11MR], H1892 [24AP], H2445 [8MY]