[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 146 (Monday, September 11, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5137]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 889. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her 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. __. ESTIMATE OF COSTS OF MAINTAINING AND MODERNIZING 
                   NUCLEAR WEAPONS STOCKPILE.

       (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit to Congress a report containing an estimate of the 
     costs, over the 30-year period beginning on such date of 
     enactment, of maintaining and modernizing the nuclear weapons 
     stockpile.
       (b) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be 
     submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified 
     annex.
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