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Appropriations committee approves amendment restoring funding to health care bill, reports H126 favorably
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to restore funding to the health care bill H126 and voted to report the bill favorably to the floor; the measure is expected to proceed to a committee of conference.
Committee Chair, House Appropriations Committee, said Friday that the committee approved an amendment to restore funding to the health care bill H126 and voted to report the bill favorably, sending it toward a committee of conference.
The amendment — described in the meeting as draft 1.2 — “put[s] the money back in” and, as the chair put it, the restored funds are “fenced off in the budget,” meaning they are set aside in budget language if the bill advances on its merits.
The committee paused briefly to allow members to review the amendment before taking the vote. After the roll call, a majority of members voted to approve reporting H126 as amended by the…
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