[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4559]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 592. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Casey, Mr. Cochran, 
Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Brown, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Cardin, Mr. 
Moran, Mr. Coons, Ms. Duckworth, Ms. Hassan, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Leahy, 
Mr. Markey, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Peters, Mr. Reed, Mrs. 
Shaheen, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Tester, Mr. Udall, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. 
Warner, Ms. Warren, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Wyden, Ms. Hirono, and Mr. 
Merkley) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the 
bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 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 C of title VII, add the following:

     SEC. 737. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO MEDICAL 
                   RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF 
                   DEFENSE.

       (a) Medical Research and Development Projects.--Section 
     733, relating to a prohibition on funding and conduct of 
     certain medical research and development projects by the 
     Department of Defense, shall have no force or effect.
       (b) Congressional Special Interest Medical Research 
     Programs.--Sections 891, 892, and 893, relating to 
     limitations on the authority of the Secretary of Defense to 
     enter into contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements for 
     congressional special interest medical research programs 
     under the congressionally directed medical research program 
     of the Department of Defense, shall have no force or effect.
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