S.Amdt. 87Senate115th Congress (2017-2019)

S.Amdt. 87

Submitted January 10, 2017

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Senate amendment submitted

January 10, 2017

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SA 87. Mr. WARNER (for himself, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Peters,
Mr. Markey, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. King, Mr. Nelson, Ms. Warren, and Mr.
Bennet) 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 TO INCREASE ACCESS TO
HEALTH CARE FOR VETERANS.

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 increasing health care access for veterans, which
may include legislation that authorizes the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs to carry out certain major medical facility
leases 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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