[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 83 (Wednesday, May 25, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3209]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4194. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2017 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:

       Strike section 601 and insert the following:

     SEC. 601. FISCAL YEAR 2017 INCREASE IN MILITARY BASIC PAY.

       (a) Waiver of Section 1009 Adjustment.--The adjustment to 
     become effective during fiscal year 2017 required by section 
     1009 of title 37, United States Code, in the rates of monthly 
     basic pay authorized members of the uniformed services shall 
     not be made.
       (b) Increase in Basic Pay.--Effective on January 1, 2017, 
     the rates of monthly basic pay for members of the uniformed 
     services are increased by 2.1 percent.
       (c) Funding.--
       (1) Increase in amount for military personnel.--The amount 
     authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2017 by section 
     421 is hereby increased by the amount necessary to provide an 
     increase in military basic pay under subsection (b) by 2.1 
     percent rather than 1.6 percent, with the amount to be 
     available for military personnel to provide such increase.
       (2) Offset.--The aggregate amount authorized to be 
     appropriated for fiscal year 2017 by this division, other 
     than the amount authorize to be appropriated by section 421, 
     is hereby reduced by the amount necessary to provide an 
     increase in military basic pay under subsection (b) by 2.1 
     percent rather than 1.6 percent, with the amount of the 
     reduction to be achieved by terminating funding for projects 
     determined to be low-priority projects by the Joint Chiefs of 
     Staff.
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