[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 91 (Thursday, June 9, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3757]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4657. Mr. COTTON 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:

                           Amendment No. 4657

       At the end of subtitle F of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1247. PROHIBITION ON REQUIRING UNITED STATES AIR 
                   CARRIERS TO COMPLY WITH AIR DEFENSE 
                   IDENTIFICATION ZONES DECLARED BY THE PEOPLE'S 
                   REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

       The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
     shall not promulgate a special rule that requires an air 
     carrier that holds an air carrier certificate issued under 
     chapter 411 of title 49, United States Code, to comply with 
     any air defense identification zone declared by the People's 
     Republic of China that is inconsistent with United States 
     policy, overlaps with preexisting air identification zones, 
     covers disputed territory, or covers a specific geographic 
     area over the East China Sea or South China Sea.
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