[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3701]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2710. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Mr. Murphy) 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:

       Strike section 1262 and insert the following:

     SEC. 1262. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY FOR TRANSFER OF AMOUNTS FOR 
                   GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER.

       Section 1287(e) of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328; 130 Stat. 2546; 22 
     U.S.C. 2656 note) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking the paragraph designation 
     and heading and all that follows through ``If amounts'' and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(1) Fiscal years 2017 and 2018.--If amounts'';
       (2) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs 
     (3) and (4), respectively;
       (3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new 
     paragraph (2):
       ``(2) Fiscal years 2019 and 2020.--For each of fiscal years 
     2019 and 2020, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to 
     transfer, from amounts appropriated to the Secretary pursuant 
     to the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2019, not more than $60,000,000 to carry out the 
     functions of the Center.'';
       (4) in paragraph (3), as so redesignated, by striking 
     ``paragraph (1)'' and inserting ``paragraph (1) or (2)''; and
       (5) in paragraph (4), as so redesignated, by striking 
     ``paragraph (1)'' and inserting ``paragraphs (1) and (2)''.
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