This afternoon the Senate will be holding 8+ hours of debate on amendments offered by the Republicans to the House Reconciliation package. The Democrats have yielded all their time to the republicans, sometime later today (7pm or so) the Senate will take up amendments to the bill. After the amendments are voted on the Senate will vote on the final bill, which should be sometime before the end of the week.
Below is a chart with the currently offered amendments and the sponsors of those amendments.
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Sponsor |
Bill # |
Summary |
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Vitter |
Repeal of Act |
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Vitter |
Prohibits ACORN funding from this Act |
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Coburn |
Eliminates funding for abortion/ED drugs for rapists/child molesters |
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Coburn |
Offset additional bureaucrats from other Federal agencies |
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Coburn |
Revoke expanded power of HHS created under this Act |
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Coburn |
Preserve current health care coverage |
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Coburn |
Reduce Medicare/Medicaid waste |
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Coburn |
Nondiscrimination for rights of conscience |
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Coburn |
Exempt Class I medical devices from tax on device manufactures |
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Coburn |
Repeal student loan finance provision |
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Grassley |
Require Executive/Legislative take part in health exchanges |
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Inhofe |
Exclude disabled individuals from device taxes |
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Coburn |
Increased transparency/require Congress to read bills |
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Gregg |
Prohibits Medicare cuts/Prevents any future cuts to fund entitlements |
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Bennett |
Right of People of DC to define marriage in referendum |
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Grassley |
Expense Geographic Adjustment under Medicare Physician fee schedule and eliminates sweetheart deals for frontier states |
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McCain |
To eliminate the sweetheart deals for Tennessee, Hawaii, Louisiana, Montana, Connecticut, and frontier States |
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Collins |
Special Rule for Individuals 30+ not eligible for exchange credits and reductions |
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Collins |
Assessment of Medicare cost-intensive diseases and conditions |
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Collins |
Improving Care Planning for Medicare home health services |
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LeMieux |
To preserve student choice in higher education |
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LeMieux |
To preserve student choice in higher education |
In addition to these amendments there are several procedural motions that will be made:
- Crapo motion to commit the bill to the Committee on Finance with instructions to report legislation that shall not result in an increase in Federal tax liability for any individual with adjusted gross income of less than $200,000 or any married couple with adjusted gross income of less than $250,000.
- Enzi motion to commit regarding employer mandates
- Barrasso amendment to require the Secretary of HHS certify health insurance premiums won't increase as a result of the legislation.
If you are so inclined you can watch the debate live on CSPAN 2