[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 90 (Wednesday, June 8, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3656-S3657]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4579. Mr. BENNET submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by

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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:

       At the end of subtitle B of title IX, add the following:

     SEC. 926. PROHIBITION ON CONSOLIDATION OF UNITED STATES 
                   NORTHERN COMMAND WITH ANY OTHER GEOGRAPHIC 
                   COMBATANT COMMAND.

       No amounts authorized to be appropriated by this Act, or 
     amounts authorized to be appropriated for the Department of 
     Defense for a fiscal year before fiscal year 2017 that remain 
     available for obligation, may be used as follows:
       (1) To consolidate the United States Northern Command with 
     any other geographic combatant command.
       (2) To subordinate the United States Northern Command to 
     any other geographic combatant command.
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