[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3625-S3626]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2620. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) 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 III, add the following:

     SEC. 340. STARBASE PROGRAM.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the STARBASE program should continue to be funded by the 
     Department of Defense.
       (b) Funding.--
       (1) In general.--The amount authorized to be appropriated 
     for fiscal year 2019 for the Department of Defense by section 
     301 is hereby increased by $25,000,000, with the amount of 
     the increase to be available for Operation and Maintenance, 
     Defense-wide, for Civil

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     Military Programs for the STARBASE program.
       (2) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for 
     fiscal year 2019 for the Department of Defense by section 301 
     is hereby reduced by $25,000,000, with the amount of the 
     reduction to be taken from amounts available for Operation 
     and Maintenance, Navy, for Operating Forces for Enterprise 
     Information (Line 300).
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