[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 149 (Thursday, September 14, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5762-S5763]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1074. Mr. FRANKEN 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:

       In section 812, beginning in the new section 2339a of title 
     10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a)(1) of such 
     section 812, strike ``$250,000''and all that follows through 
     the end of subsection (b) of such section 812 and insert the 
     following: ``$250,000. This section shall not apply for 
     purposes of determining the value of the simplified 
     acquisition threshold referred to in subsection 2533a(h) or 
     subsection 2533b(f) of this title.''.
       (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new item:

``2339a. Simplified acquisition threshold.''.
       (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--(1) Section 134 
     of title 41, United States Code, is amended by striking ``In 
     division B'' and inserting ``Except as provided in section 
     2339a of title 10, in division B''.
       (2) Section 2533a(h) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended by striking ``referred to in section 2304(g) of this 
     title'' and

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     inserting ``specified in section 134 of title 41, United 
     States Code''.
       (3) Section 2533b(f) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended by striking ``referred to in section 2304(g) of this 
     title'' and inserting ``specified in section 134 of title 41, 
     United States Code''.
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