[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 149 (Thursday, September 14, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5761]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1070. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1003 proposed by Mr. McCain (for himself and Mr. Reed) 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 D of title I, add the following:

     SEC. __. COMBAT CAPABILITY AND MODERNIZATION OF B-2 FLEET.

       The Secretary of the Air Force shall ensure that the B-2 
     fleet remains fully combat capable, that necessary 
     modernization of the fleet continues, and that the aircraft 
     remains in the primary mission aircraft inventory of the Air 
     Force.
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