[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 12 (Friday, January 19, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S351]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1915. Mr. HELLER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 195, to amend title 44, United States Code, to 
restrict the distribution of free printed copies of the Federal 
Register to Members of Congress and other officers and employees of the 
United States, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

    TITLE __--EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR MILITARY AND SUPPORTING 
                             CONTRACTOR PAY

     SEC. ___01. SHORT TITLE.

       This title may be cited as the ``Ensuring Pay for Our 
     Military Act''.

     SEC. ___02. EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS TO PROVIDE PAY 
                   AND ALLOWANCES FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES 
                   AND SUPPORTING CIVILIAN AND CONTRACTOR 
                   PERSONNEL DURING FUNDING GAP IMPACTING THE 
                   DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OR DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 
                   SECURITY.

       (a) Appropriation of Funds for Military Pay and 
     Allowances.--During a funding gap impacting the Armed Forces, 
     the Secretary of the Treasury shall make available to the 
     Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of Homeland Security 
     in the case of the Coast Guard), out of any amounts in the 
     general fund of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such 
     amounts as the Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard) determines 
     to be necessary to continue to provide pay and allowances 
     (without interruption) to the following:
       (1) Members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and 
     Coast Guard, including reserve components thereof, who 
     perform active service during the funding gap.
       (2) At the discretion of the Secretary of Defense, such 
     civilian personnel of the Department of Defense who are 
     providing support to the members of the Armed Forces 
     described in paragraph (1) as the Secretary considers 
     appropriate.
       (3) At the discretion of the Secretary of Defense, such 
     personnel of contractors of the Department of Defense who are 
     providing direct support to the members of the Armed Forces 
     described in paragraph (1) as the Secretary considers 
     appropriate.
       (b) Funding Gap Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``funding gap'' means any period of time after the beginning 
     of a fiscal year for which interim or full-year 
     appropriations for the personnel accounts of the Armed Forces 
     for that fiscal year have not been enacted.
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