[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 89 (Tuesday, June 7, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3593]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4535. Mrs. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her 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:

       At the end of subtitle I of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1097. MEAT OPTIONS.

       (a) In General.--Dining facilities of the Department of 
     Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, in the case 
     of the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in 
     the Navy, shall provide members of the Armed Forces on a 
     daily basis with meat options that meet or exceed the 
     nutritional standards established in the most recent Dietary 
     Guidelines for Americans published under section 301 of the 
     National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 
     1990 (7 U.S.C. 5341).
       (b) Prohibition.--None of the funds authorized to be 
     appropriated by this Act may be obligated or expended to 
     establish or enforce ``Meatless Monday'' or any other program 
     explicitly designed to reduce the amount of animal protein 
     that members of the Armed Forces voluntarily consume.
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