S.Amdt. 79

SA 79. Mr. DURBIN (for himself and Ms. Klobuchar) 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
SUPPORTING STEADY, PREDICTABLE GROWTH FOR
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH.

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 supporting at least 5 percent real growth (above
inflation) to medical research conducted by each of the
National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, the Defense Health Program, and the
Medical and Prosthetics Research Program of the Department of
Veterans Affairs 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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