[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4589-S4590]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 697. Mr. BOOKER 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 
     section:

     SEC. ___. PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR 
                   TERMINATION OF VETS4WARRIORS CRISIS HOTLINE 
                   PROGRAM.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act 
     or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2018 for the 
     Department of Defense may be obligated or expended to

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     terminate the Vets4Warriors crisis hotline program unless the 
     Secretary of Defense has submitted to the congressional 
     defense committees a report describing a sufficient 
     replacement to such program.
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