[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 149 (Thursday, September 14, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5767]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1084. Mr. CORNYN 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. ELIMINATION OF DEFENSE SEQUESTRATION.

       Section 251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Within'' and inserting 
     ``Subject to subsection (d), within'';
       (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``Each'' and inserting 
     ``Subject to subsection (d), each'';
       (C) in paragraph (4), in the matter preceding subparagraph 
     (A), by striking ``If'' inserting ``Subject to subsection 
     (d), if'';
       (D) in paragraph (5), by striking ``If'' and inserting 
     ``Subject to subsection (d), if''; and
       (E) in paragraph (6), by striking ``If'' and inserting 
     ``Subject to subsection (d), if''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(d) Exemption of Revised Security Category From 
     Sequestration.--
       ``(1) In general.--For fiscal year 2018, and each fiscal 
     year thereafter, if there is a breach within the revised 
     security category--
       ``(A) there shall not be a sequestration within the revised 
     security category; and
       ``(B) there shall be a sequestration within the revised 
     nonsecurity category in the amount necessary to eliminate the 
     breach within the revised security category.
       ``(2) Elimination of breach.--Any sequestration of the 
     revised nonsecurity category under this subsection shall be 
     implemented in accordance with subsection (a), as if the 
     amount of the breach were a breach within the revised 
     nonsecurity category.''.
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