What we are going to do with this amendment is simply add to the end of the Kennedy amendment two provisions that were voted on by the Senate during the debate... One, the Roth- Breaux et al. on the bipartisan Medicare proposal; and, second, the Budget Committee portion, which was Senator Snowe's amendment, which said any excess surplus beyond the tax cut and Social Security could be used for prescription drugs.
Discussing amendments related to Medicare and prescription drug funding during Senate debate.
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It would relate in some way to the process that you and I have learned and call reconciliation.
I think that the last point that Dr. Rivlin made you can find in the report: that our plan is more progressive than the tax code we are replacing.
That did not reduce any beneficiaries' benefits, it just cut the amounts that providers were otherwise getting.
I think you raise a good point. We have to be careful about the issue you raised. It is a serious one.