[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 12, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3852]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2831. Mr. PORTMAN 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 C of title II, add the following:

     SEC. ___. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON RESEARCH REGARDING BLAST 
                   EXPOSURE ON THE CELLULAR LEVEL OF THE BRAIN.

       It is the sense of the Senate that--
       (1) further research is necessary regarding blast exposure 
     on the cellular level of the brain;
       (2) such research is needed to develop blast protection 
     requirements for helmets and other personal protective 
     equipment; and
       (3) the Office of Naval Research should increase ongoing 
     efforts, to the maximum extent possible, to develop a 
     predictive traumatic brain injury model for blast, in order 
     to better understand the cellular response to blast impulses 
     and the interaction of the human brain and protective 
     equipment related to blast exposure.
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