To express the sense of the Senate that the full amount of the President's request for the administrative costs of the Social Security Administration for fiscal year 2006 should be funded.

SA 167. Mr. BAUCUS (for himself and Mr. Grassley) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him 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:

At the appropriate place insert the following:

SEC. __. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING FUNDING OF ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS OF SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION.

It is the sense of the Senate that Congress should approve the full amount of the President's request for the administrative costs of the Social Security Administration for fiscal year 2006, including funds for the implementation of the low-income prescription drug subsidy under part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act (as added by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003).