[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4601]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 718. Mr. KENNEDY 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 D of title VI, add the following:

     SEC. ___. REPORT ON MANAGEMENT OF MILITARY COMMISSARIES AND 
                   EXCHANGES.

       (a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
     shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report 
     regarding management practices of military commissaries and 
     exchanges.
       (b) Elements.--The report required under this section shall 
     include a cost-benefit analysis with the goals of--
       (1) reducing the costs of operating military commissaries 
     and exchanges by $2,000,000,000 during fiscal years 2018 
     through 2022; and
       (2) not raising costs for patrons of military commissaries 
     and exchanges.
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