[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 93 (Wednesday, June 6, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3240]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2321. Mr. COTTON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 SEQUESTRATION.

       The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.) is amended--
       (1) in section 251(a) (2 U.S.C. 901(a))--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Within'' and inserting 
     ``For each fiscal year beginning before October 1, 2018, 
     within'';
       (B) in paragraph (4), in the matter preceding subparagraph 
     (A), by inserting ``beginning before October 1, 2018'' after 
     ``fiscal year'';
       (C) in paragraph (6), by striking ``If'' and inserting 
     ``For each fiscal year beginning before October 1, 2018, 
     if''; and
       (D) in paragraph (7)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``for a fiscal year 
     beginning before October 1, 2018'' after ``any discretionary 
     appropriation''; and
       (ii) in subparagraph (B), in the first sentence, by 
     inserting ``for a fiscal year beginning before October 1, 
     2018'' after ``any discretionary appropriation''; and
       (2) in section 254 (2 U.S.C. 904)--
       (A) in subsection (c)(2), by striking ``2021'' and 
     inserting ``2018'';
       (B) in subsection (f)(2)(A), by striking ``2021'' and 
     inserting ``2018''; and
       (C) in subsection (g), by striking ``If'' and inserting 
     ``For each fiscal year beginning before October 1, 2018, 
     if''.
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