[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 124 (Tuesday, July 24, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5279-S5280]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3455. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 3399 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6147, 
making appropriations for the Department of

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the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; which was ordered to 
lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title VII of division B, insert the 
     following:
       Sec. ___.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act or any other Act may be used--
       (1) to prevent a Member of Congress from entering, for the 
     purpose of conducting oversight, any facility located in the 
     United States at which alien minors are housed or otherwise 
     detained;
       (2) to require any Member of Congress to coordinate through 
     a Congressional entity for their entry into, for the purpose 
     of conducting oversight, any facility described in paragraph 
     (1); or
       (3) to make any temporary modification at a facility 
     described in paragraph (1) that in any way alters what is 
     observed by a visiting Member of Congress, compared to what 
     would be observed in the absence of such modification.
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