[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4605]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 730. Mr. NELSON (for himself and Mr. Cotton) 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 A of title XVI, add the following:

     SEC. ___. PROHIBITION ON ESTABLISHMENT OF MILITARY DEPARTMENT 
                   OR CORPS SEPARATE FROM OR SUBORDINATE TO THE 
                   CURRENT MILITARY DEPARTMENTS.

       No funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or 
     otherwise available for fiscal year 2018 for the Department 
     of Defense may be used to establish a military department or 
     corps separate from or subordinate to the current military 
     departments, including a Space Corps in the Department of the 
     Air Force, or a similar such corps in any other military 
     department.
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