S.Amdt. 3697

SA 3697. Ms. HASSAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by

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her to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 14, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2023 through 2031; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROTECTING MEDICARE
BENEFICIARIES FROM INCREASES IN DRUG SPENDING.

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,
and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or
more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between
the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to
protecting Medicare beneficiaries from increases in drug
spending, which may include ensuring that any individual
policy that increases Medicare beneficiary premiums or
taxpayer spending on pharmaceuticals be fully offset by
additional rebates from drug manufacturers to the Medicare
program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for
those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal
years 2022 through 2031.
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