S.Amdt. 9

SA 9. Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Mr. Franken, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr.
Leahy, Mr. Udall, Mr. Durbin, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr.
Whitehouse, Mr. King, Mr. Brown, Ms. Baldwin, and Mrs. Shaheen)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed

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by her 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 THE
REPEAL OF THE MEDICARE PART D NONINTERFERENCE
CLAUSE.

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 the repeal of the noninterference clause under
the Medicare part D prescription drug program in order to
allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate
for the best possible price for prescription drugs 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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