[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 12, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3860]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2857. Ms. DUCKWORTH 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 E of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 12_. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR REDUCTION OF ACTIVE-
                   DUTY MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES DEPLOYED TO 
                   THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act 
     may be obligated or expended to reduce the total number of 
     members of the Armed Forces on active duty who are deployed 
     to the Republic of Korea to fewer than 22,000 members of the 
     Armed Forces until the date on which the Secretary of Defense 
     submits to the congressional defense committees a 
     certification that such a reduction is in the national 
     security interest of the United States and will not 
     significantly undermine the security of United States allies 
     in the region.
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