[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 92 (Wednesday, June 10, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S4056]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1987. Mr. MURPHY (for himself, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Udall, Mr. 
Blumenthal, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Tester, Mr. Merkley, Ms. Baldwin, and 
Mrs. Boxer) 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, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, 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 G title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1283. PROHIBITION ON DEPLOYMENT OF GROUND COMBAT TROOPS 
                   IN IRAQ AND SYRIA.

       No funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act may be 
     used to support the deployment of the United States Armed 
     Forces for the purpose of ground combat operations in Iraq or 
     Syria, except as necessary--
       (1) for the protection or rescue of members of the United 
     States Armed Forces or United States citizens from imminent 
     danger posed by ISIL; or
       (2) to conduct missions not intended to result in ground 
     combat operations by United States forces, such as--
       (A) intelligence collection and sharing;
       (B) enabling kinetic strikes;
       (C) limited operations against high value targets;
       (D) operational planning; or
       (E) other forms of advice and assistance to coalition 
     forces fighting ISIL in Iraq or Syria.
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