S. 3344: Protecting the American Taxpayer and Medicare Act
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S. 3344: Protecting the American Taxpayer and Medicare Act
117th Congress · introduced 2021-12-08 · Health · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2021-12-08 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Protecting the American Taxpayer and Medicare Act
Plain summary
Protecting the American Taxpayer and Medicare Act This bill makes several budgetary and technical changes, particularly in relation to Medicare. Specifically, the bill continues to exempt Medicare from sequestration until March 31, 2022. (Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.) Additionally, the bill (1) temporarily extends other provisions under Medicare, including a payment increase under the physician fee schedule; and (2) requires any debits recorded for FY2022 on the statutory pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) scorecards to be deducted from the scorecards for 2022 and added to the scorecards for 2023.
Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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Official text
Protecting the American Taxpayer and Medicare Act
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] · 12 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Tim Scott (R-SC), Rick Scott (R-FL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Boozman (R-AR), John Hoeven (R-ND), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
Sponsor's campaign money: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] reported raising $11.9 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.
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- Bill
- A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
- Exemption
- A rule that removes certain people, property or activities from a tax or requirement.
- Statute
- A written law passed by a legislature. A statute can be changed by a later law; changing a constitution needs an amendment.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-117s3344.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/s>
Record fed-us-cong117-s3344 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117