S.Amdt. 1147

SA 1147. Mr. VAN HOLLEN submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 1116 proposed by Mr. Enzi to the concurrent
resolution H. Con. Res. 71, establishing the congressional budget for
the United States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle A of title IV, add the following:

SEC. 41__. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST ENDING MEDICARE AS WE KNOW
IT.

(a) In General.--When the Senate is considering a bill,
joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the
Houses, or conference report, if a point of order is made by
a Senator against a provision that eliminates the guaranteed
health

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insurance benefits for seniors and people with disabilities
under the Medicare program, increases costs for seniors and
people with disabilities by establishing a Medicare voucher
or premium support plan that provides limited payments to
Medicare beneficiaries to purchase health care in the private
health insurance market, or weakens the traditional Medicare
program by diverting the healthiest enrollees into private
plans and undermining traditional Medicare's ability to
control costs while offering access to a broad range of
providers, and the point of order is sustained by the Chair,
that provision shall be stricken from the measure and may not
be offered as an amendment from the floor.
(b) Form of the Point of Order.--A point of order under
subsection (a) may be raised by a Senator as provided in
section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2
U.S.C. 644(e)).
(c) Conference Reports.--When the Senate is considering a
conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in
relation to, a bill or joint resolution, upon a point of
order being made by any Senator pursuant to subsection (a),
and such point of order being sustained, such material
contained in such conference report or House amendment shall
be stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the
question of whether the Senate shall recede from its
amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in
the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may
be, which further amendment shall consist of only that
portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the
case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion in the Senate
shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order
is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment
derived from such conference report by operation of this
subsection), no further amendment shall be in order.
(d) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal.--In the Senate, this
section may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative
vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chose and sworn. An
affirmative vote of three-fifths of Members of the Senate,
duly chosen and sworn shall be required to sustain an appeal
of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under
this section.
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