To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming housing and Medicaid without prioritizing able-bodied adults over the disabled or raiding the Medicare Trust Funds to pay for new government programs, like Obamacare, which has failed Americans by increasing premiums and reducing affordable health care options.
Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT)Legislative Activity
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Senate amendment submitted
January 11, 2017
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Senate amendment submitted
January 11, 2017
Senate amendment proposed (on the floor): Amendment SA 179 proposed by Senator Enzi for Senator Hatch.(consideration: CR S258-260; text: CR S258)
January 11, 2017
Roll call votes on amendments in Senate: Motion to waive all applicable budgetary discipline with respect to amendment SA 179 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 47. Record Vote Number: 17.(consideration: CR S259-260)
January 11, 2017
Amendment SA 179 proposed by Senator Enzi for Senator Hatch. (consideration: CR S258-260; text: CR S258) To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming housing and Medicaid without prioritizing able-bodied adults over the disabled or raiding the Medicare Trust Funds to pay for new government programs, like Obamacare, which has failed Americans by increasing premiums and reducing affordable health care options.
January 11, 2017
Point of order that the amendment violates section 305(b)(2) of the CBA raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 179.
January 11, 2017
Motion to waive all applicable budgetary discipline with respect to amendment SA 179 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 47. Record Vote Number: 17. (consideration: CR S259-260)
January 11, 2017
Amendment SA 179 ruled out of order by the chair.
January 11, 2017
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1 roll call on this amendment
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SA 179. Mr. HATCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 3, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2017 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2018 through 2026; as follows: At the end of title III, add the following: SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROTECTIONS FOR THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED. The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to reforming housing and Medicaid, which may include returning State regulation of health insurance markets to the States, without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2017 through 2021 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2017 through 2026. ______