[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 93 (Thursday, June 11, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S4115]
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  SA 2014. Mr. CASEY (for himself and Mr. Cornyn) 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 E of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1049. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON FURTHER CUTS TO THE NUMBER OF 
                   BRIGADE COMBAT TEAMS OF THE ARMY.

       It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) both the quantity and complexity of national security 
     threats facing the United States have grown in recent years, 
     particularly the threat posed by the terrorists of the self-
     declared Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and continuing 
     aggression by the Russian Federation;
       (2) the National Commission on the Future of the Army is 
     currently assessing the appropriate force structure for the 
     Army in light of these threats, and is required to report to 
     Congress on that assessment by February 1, 2016; and
       (3) in light of these growing threats and that assessment, 
     the Department of Defense should not make further reductions 
     in the number of brigade combat teams in the regular and 
     reserve components of the Army, including the Army National 
     Guard, which would be difficult and costly to reverse and 
     would have an adverse impact on the ability of the Army to 
     respond to global threats.
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