[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4576]
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SA 661. 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 appropriate place in title XII, insert the
following:
SEC. 12__. PROHIBITION ON TRANSFER OF CLUSTER MUNITIONS TO
SAUDI ARABIA.
No amounts authorized to be appropriated by this Act or
otherwise made available for fiscal year 2018 for the
Department of Defense may be used to transfer or authorize
the transfer of cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia.
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