[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 94 (Thursday, June 7, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3307]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2382. Ms. COLLINS (for herself and Mr. King) 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 end of subtitle A of title XI, add the following:

     SEC. 1107. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION ON AUTHORITY TO REDUCE THE 
                   SIZE OF THE CIVILIAN WORKFORCE OF THE 
                   DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       No provision of this Act or amendment made by this Act may 
     be construed to provide the Secretary of Defense any 
     authority to reduce the size of the civilian workforce of the 
     Department of Defense in a manner not otherwise authorized by 
     section 1597 of title 10, United States Code.
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