[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 89 (Thursday, June 4, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3829-S3830]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1772. Ms. WARREN (for herself and Mr. Markey) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to

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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; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle E of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 844. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON BERRY-COMPLIANT FOOTWEAR.

       It is the sense of Congress that the Department of Defense 
     should, not later than 30 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, expedite the purchase of and 
     availability to enlisted initial entrants of the United 
     States Armed Forces, either as an in-kind issue or by cash 
     allowance, such Berry Amendment-compliant athletic footwear 
     as has been qualified for use during initial entrant training 
     to the exclusion of similar non-Berry-compliant footwear.
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