[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 146 (Monday, September 11, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5140]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 902. Mr. CORNYN 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:

       In section 123(a), strike ``procurement of V-22 aircraft'' 
     and all that follows through ``five years'' and insert the 
     following: ``procurement of V-22 aircraft and common 
     configuration-readiness and modernization upgrades for the V-
     22 aircraft. Notwithstanding subsection (k) of such section 
     2306b, the Secretary of Defense may enter into a multiyear 
     contract under this section for up to seven years''.
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