[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 88 (Wednesday, June 3, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3696]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1521. Mr. REED (for himself, Mr. Kaine, Ms. Hirono, Mrs. 
Gillibrand, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Durbin, Mr. 
Blumenthal, Mr. Brown, Mr. King, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Heinrich, 
Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Reid, Mr. Tester, Mrs. McCaskill, Mr. Whitehouse, Ms. 
Stabenow, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Markey, Mr. Casey, Mrs. Murray, and Mr. 
Franken) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 
1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe 
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other 
purposes; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle B of title XV, add the following:

     SEC. 1523. LIMITATION ON THE AVAILABILITY OF OVERSEAS 
                   CONTINGENCY OPERATION FUNDING SUBJECT TO RELIEF 
                   FROM THE BUDGET CONTROL ACT.

       (a) Limitation.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     this title, of the total amount authorized to be appropriated 
     by this title for overseas contingency operations, not more 
     than $50,950,000,000 may be available for obligation and 
     expenditure unless--
       (1) the discretionary spending limits imposed by section 
     251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
     Act of 1985, as amended by section 302 of the Budget Control 
     Act of 2011 (Public Law 112-25), on appropriations for the 
     revised security category and the revised nonsecurity 
     category are eliminated or increased in proportionally equal 
     amounts for fiscal year 2016 by any other Act enacted after 
     December 26, 2013; and
       (2) if the revised security and the revised nonsecurity 
     category are increased as described in paragraph (1), the 
     amount of the increase is equal to or greater than the amount 
     in excess of the $50,950,000,000 that is authorized to be 
     appropriated by this title for security category activities.
       (b) Use of Funds Available Under Satisfaction of 
     Limitation.--
       (1) Transfer.--Any amounts authorized to be appropriated by 
     this title in excess of $50,950,000,000 that are available 
     for obligation and expenditure pursuant to subsection (a) 
     shall be transferred to applicable accounts of the Department 
     of Defense providing funds for programs, projects, and 
     activities other than for overseas contingency operations. 
     Any amounts so transferred to an account shall be merged with 
     amounts in the account to which transferred and available 
     subject to the same terms and conditions as otherwise apply 
     to amounts in such account.
       (2) Construction of authority.--The authority to transfer 
     amounts under this subsection is in addition to any other 
     transfer authority in this Act.
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