US Congress Senate Resolution 638 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 44-3)
Status: Introduced on June 30 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-06-30 - Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S4040-4041)
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

This resolution expresses the sense of the Senate that the Department of Justice (DOJ) should defend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in ongoing litigation. Currently, DOJ supports the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that upheld a district court ruling that certain provisions of the PPACA are not severable from the remainder of the Act and therefore that the entire law is invalid. The Fifth Circuit's ruling is currently pending appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court.

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Department of Justice should defend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148 Stat. 119) and halt its efforts to repeal, sabotage, or undermine health care protections for millions of people in the United States in the midst of the public health emergency relating to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Joe Manchin [D-WV]
Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]	Sen. Doug Jones [D-AL]	Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]
Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]
Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]
Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]
Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]
Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]
Sen. Angus King [I-ME]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]
Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-06-30	Senate	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S4040-4041)

HR1082 (Same As) 2020-08-11 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-resolution/638/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/sres638/BILLS-116sres638is.pdf