S.Amdt. 3053

SA 3053. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2786 proposed by Mr. Reid (for himself, Mr. Baucus, Mr.
Dodd, and Mr. Harkin) to the bill H.R. 3590, to amend the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the
case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal
employees, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

On page 2026, strike line 3 and insert the following:
(i) Exclusion of Assistive Devices for People With
Disabilities.--
(1) In general.--The term ``medical device sales'' shall
not include sales of any assistive device for people with
disabilities.
(2) Reduction of aggregate fee amount.--The $2,000,000,000
amount in subsection (b)(1) shall be reduced in each calendar
year by the amount which bears the same ratio to such
$2,000,000,000 amount as the amount of the sales of devices
described in paragraph (1) for such calendar year bears to
the amount of total medical device sales (without regard to
this subsection) for such calendar year, as determined by the
Secretary.
(j) Application of Section.--This section shall
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