[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 142 (Tuesday, September 5, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4944]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 785. Mr. WICKER (for himself, Mr. Thune, Mr. Peters, and Mr. 
Sullivan) 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 part I of subtitle C of title VI, add the 
     following:

     SEC. __. FUNDS FOR THE PAYMENT OF CONTINUATION PAY TO MEMBERS 
                   OF THE COAST GUARD DURING FISCAL YEARS 2018 AND 
                   2019.

       There is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not 
     otherwise appropriated, to the Retired Pay account under the 
     heading ``Department of Homeland Security-United States Coast 
     Guard'' for each fiscal year as follows, for purposes of 
     paying continuation pay under section 356 of title 37, United 
     States Code, to members of the Coast Guard during such fiscal 
     year, amounts as follows:
       (1) For fiscal year 2018, $3,286,277.
       (2) For fiscal year 2019, $9,272,945.
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