[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 167 (Tuesday, October 17, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S6424]
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        NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask that the Chair lay before the 
Senate the House message accompanying H.R. 2810.
  The Presiding Officer laid before the Senate the following message 
from the House of Representatives:

       Resolved, That the House disagree to the amendment of the 
     Senate to the bill (H.R. 2810) entitled ``An Act 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,'' and ask a conference with the 
     Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon.


                            Compound Motion

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move that the Senate insist on its 
amendment, agree to the request by the House for a conference, and the 
Presiding Officer appoint the following conferees: Senators McCain, 
Inhofe, Wicker, Fischer, Cotton, Rounds, Ernst, Tillis, Sullivan, 
Perdue, Cruz, Graham, Sasse, Strange, Reed, Nelson, McCaskill, Shaheen, 
Gillibrand, Blumenthal, Donnelly, Hirono, Kaine, King, Heinrich, 
Warren, and Peters.
  Mr. President, I know of no further debate on the motion.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further debate on the motion, 
the question is on agreeing to the motion.
  The motion was agreed to.

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