[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3622]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2609. Mr. RUBIO 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 D of title I, add the following new 
     section:

     SEC. 144. CONVERSION OF F-22 AIRCRAFT.

       (a) Contract Authority.--The Secretary of the Air Force may 
     enter into one or more contracts, beginning with the fiscal 
     year 2019 program year, to convert up to 34 F-22 aircraft of 
     the Air Force from a Block 20 configuration to a Block 35 
     configuration.
       (b) Condition for Out-year Contract Payments.--A contract 
     entered into under subsection (a) shall provide that any 
     obligation of the United States to make a payment under the 
     contract for a fiscal year after fiscal year 2019 is subject 
     to the availability of appropriations or funds for that 
     purpose for such later fiscal year.
       (c) Funding.--Notwithstanding the amounts set forth in the 
     funding tables in division D, the amount authorized to be 
     appropriated in section 4101 for procurement, as specified in 
     the corresponding funding table in section 4101, for Aircraft 
     Procurement, Air Force, is hereby increased by $98,000,000 
     (to be used to carry out subsection (a)).
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