[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 94 (Thursday, June 7, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3303]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2374. Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Merkley, Mr. 
Booker, Mr. Markey, Ms. Warren, and Mr. Van Hollen) 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ____. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO CONSTRUCT OR MODIFY 
                   FACILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES TO HOUSE 
                   UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN CHILDREN.

       (a) In General.--No amounts authorized to be appropriated 
     or otherwise made available to the Department of Defense may 
     be used during the period beginning on the date of the 
     enactment of this Act and ending on December 31, 2019, to 
     construct or modify any facility in the United States or in a 
     territory or possession of the United States to house 1 or 
     more unaccompanied alien children for the purpose of 
     detention or imprisonment in the custody or under the control 
     of the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland 
     Security, or the Department of Health and Human Services 
     unless expressly authorized by an Act of Congress.
       (b) Unaccompanied Alien Children Defined.--In this section, 
     the term ``unaccompanied alien child'' has the meaning given 
     the term in section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of 
     2002 (6 U.S.C. 279(g)).
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