Markup Information
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 10:30 AM in Room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building

Markup of:

H.R. 849, “Protecting Seniors’ Access to Medicare Act of 2017”

Additional Markup Materials:

• Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 849
• WAM Description of Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 849 (Green Sheet)

Markup Results

• The vote on Mr. Reicherts’s motion to table Mr. Doggett’s appeal of the ruling of the Chair was agreed to by a roll call vote of 22 yeas to 15 nays (with a quorum being present).
• Amendment offered by Mr. Doggett to the amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 849, which would prevent the repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board if CMS found that Medicare prescription drug spending was growing faster than the rate of inflation.
  • The amendment was not agreed to by a was not agreed to by a roll call vote of 22 nays to 15 yeas (with a quorum being present).

• H.R. 849 was ordered favorably reported to the House of Representatives as amended by a roll call vote of 24 yeas to 13 nays (with a quorum being present).