S.Amdt. 165

SA 165. Ms. SNOWE (for herself, Mr. Wyden, Mr. McCain, Mr. Feingold, and Mrs. Feinstein) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 18, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2006 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2005 and 2007 through 2010;

which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 40, after line 8, insert the following:

SEC. __. RESERVE FUND FOR THE NEGOTIATION OF THE BEST POSSIBLE PRICE FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS UNDER MEDICARE PART D.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the aggregates, allocations, functional totals, and other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution upon enactment of legislation that allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to participate in negotiations to achieve the best possible prices for prescription drugs provided under part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act through fallback prescription drug plans, and through prescription drug plans and MA-PD plans (if requested by such plans), and in other circumstances, by the amount of savings in that legislation, to ensure that those savings are reserved for deficit reduction.