S.Amdt. 52Senate115th Congress (2017-2019)

To strengthen Social Security and Medicare without raiding it to pay for new Government programs, like Obamacare, that have failed Americans by increasing premiums and reducing affordable health care options, to reform Medicaid without prioritizing able-bodied adults over the disabled, and to return regulation of insurance to State governments.

Sponsored by Jeff FlakeSen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
Submitted January 9, 2017

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Senate amendment proposed (on the floor): Amendment SA 52 proposed by Senator Enzi for Senator Flake.(consideration: CR S187, S190-191; text: CR S187)

January 10, 2017

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Senate amendment proposed (on the floor): Amendment SA 52 proposed by Senator Enzi for Senator Flake.(consideration: CR S187, S190-191; text: CR S187)

January 10, 2017

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Roll call votes on amendments in Senate: Motion to waive all applicable budgetary discipline with respect to amendment SA 52 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 31 - 67. Record Vote Number: 5.(consideration: CR S191)

January 10, 2017

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Amendment SA 52 proposed by Senator Enzi for Senator Flake. (consideration: CR S187, S190-191; text: CR S187) To strengthen Social Security and Medicare without raiding it to pay for new Government programs, like Obamacare, that have failed Americans by increasing premiums and reducing affordable health care options, to reform Medicaid without prioritizing able-bodied adults over the disabled, and to return regulation of insurance to State governments.

January 10, 2017

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Point of order that the amendment violates section 305(b)(2) of the CBA raised in Senate with respect to amendment SA 52.

January 10, 2017

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Motion to waive all applicable budgetary discipline with respect to amendment SA 52 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 31 - 67. Record Vote Number: 5. (consideration: CR S191)

January 10, 2017

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Amendment SA 52 ruled out of order by the chair.

January 10, 2017

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Senate amendment submitted

January 9, 2017

Text

Submitted

SA 52. Mr. FLAKE 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; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
PROTECTIONS FOR THE ELDERLY AND VULNERABLE.

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 protections for the elderly and vulnerable, which
may include strengthening Social Security and Medicare,
improving Medicaid, housing reform, and returning regulation
of health insurance markets to the States, 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.
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