[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 143 (Wednesday, September 6, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5011]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 802. Mr. CARDIN 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, insert the following:

     SEC. __. CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT THAT MILITARY ACTIONS ARE 
                   NOT INFLUENCED BY FINANCIAL OR BENEFICIAL 
                   INTERESTS HELD BY THE PRESIDENT.

       The United States Armed Forces may not take any military 
     action in any country in which the President or the 
     President's close relatives (immediate family, including 
     spouse, children, and sons- and-daughters-in-law) have assets 
     or businesses in which they hold an ownership interest, 
     financial interest, or beneficial interest unless the 
     President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the 
     Joint Chiefs of Staff jointly certify to Congress that the 
     proposed military action is not influenced in any way by any 
     financial or beneficial interest held by the President.
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