[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3716]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2760. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. 
McCain) 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 X, add the following:

     SEC. 103____. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS TO ISSUE ELECTRIC 
                   GRID ORDERS.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act 
     or otherwise made available for any fiscal year may be 
     obligated or expended to issue any order pursuant to section 
     101 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4511) or 
     section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824a(c)) 
     that requires any entity--
       (1) to purchase electric energy based on the fuel used to 
     generate the electric energy; or
       (2) to generate or sell electric energy unless the electric 
     energy is required to meet an existing or imminent shortage 
     of electric energy and the demand for electric energy cannot 
     otherwise be met.
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