[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 136 (Thursday, August 16, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5685-S5689]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
LEGISLATIVE SESSION
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2019
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will
resume legislative session and proceed to the consideration of H.R.
6157, which the clerk will report.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
A bill (H.R. 6157) making appropriations for the Department
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and
for other purposes.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama.
Amendment No. 3695
(Purpose: In the nature of a substitute.)
Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I call up substitute amendment No. 3695.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
The Senator from Alabama [Mr. Shelby] proposes an amendment
numbered 3695.
Mr. SHELBY. I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment
be dispensed with.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
(The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Text of
Amendments.'')
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
Amendment No. 3699 to Amendment No. 3695
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 3699.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. McConnell], for Mr. Shelby,
proposes an amendment numbered 3699 to amendment No. 3695.
Mr. McCONNELL. I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the
amendment be dispensed with.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The amendment is as follows:
(Purpose: To improve the bill)
At the appropriate place in title II of division A under
the heading ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'',
strike ``$7,503,000'' and insert ``$8,503,000''.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama.
Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, today, the Senate begins debate on an
appropriations package that I believe is absolutely essential to the
strength and security of this Nation. The package before the Senate
marries the two largest fiscal year 2019 appropriations bills; that is,
the Defense bill that funds all national security and the Labor, HHS,
and Education bill. Each of these bills carries the near unanimous
support of the Appropriations Committee, which is quite unusual.
Senator Blunt, the chairman of the Labor, HHS, Education, and Related
Agencies Subcommittee, and Senator Murray, his ranking member, worked
together to produce a strong, bipartisan bill that balances many
competing priorities. I commend both of these Senators for their hard
work, and I want to take this time to thank them for their continued
efforts in this regard. If they haven't been here yet, Senators Blunt
and Murray will soon come to the floor to discuss the particulars of
the Labor-HHS division of this package, so I am not going to get into
the details of that bill, but as chairman of the Appropriations Defense
Subcommittee, I want to provide my colleagues here this afternoon with
an overview of the funding it contains for America's military.
Secretary Mattis, the Secretary of Defense, as we know--a decorated
general who commands deep respect on both sides of the aisle--has
warned us that ``failure to modernize our military risks leaving us
with a force that could dominate the last war, but be irrelevant to
tomorrow's security.'' Think about that for a minute. We cannot allow
that to happen.
I think we must rebuild America's military to where it will be second
to none in the world. We have to defend this Nation first and foremost.
Here in the Senate this afternoon, I am pleased to report that this
bill takes a big step in that direction. I will explain why.
It provides an additional $67.9 billion for overseas contingency
operations. The fiscal year 2018 Defense bill, enacted earlier this
year, contained the largest increase in military spending in 15 years.
The bill now before us does even better by providing an additional $16
billion above the 2018 level. This funding sustains U.S. force
structure and improves military readiness.
It also provides critical resources for a wide range of priorities
that are essential to maintaining our technological superiority in an
increasingly complex and competitive national security environment.
The bill before us includes substantial investments in the areas of
basic research, hypersonics, directed energy, artificial intelligence,
microelectronics, missile defense, cybersecurity, and our test and
evaluation infrastructure, among many other priorities.
Just as important, the package before the Senate today provides our
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and women in uniform with the largest pay increase they have seen in
nearly a decade, and they certainly deserve it. As we debate this bill
over the coming days, the sacrifices of these brave men and women
should be on the top of the minds of all of us. In light of their
sacrifices, I believe it is our duty to ensure they are the best
prepared and best equipped military in the world.
The American military is the most feared fighting force the world has
ever known, and we want to keep it that way. This bill ensures that
continues to be true. That is how we defend this Nation.
I thank the vice chairman at this time of the Defense Subcommittee,
Senator Durbin, for his valuable input in crafting this bill. Together,
I believe we have produced a balanced bill that meets the Pentagon's
objectives and includes the contributions of Senators from both sides
of the aisle. I am proud to present this legislation to my colleagues,
and I urge their strong support.
I also want to recognize the vice chairman of the full Appropriations
Committee and his work on the committee, Senator Leahy, and the leaders
of both sides, including Senator McConnell and Senator Schumer.
At the outset of the appropriations cycle, the four of us met and
agreed to work together in an effort to return the Senate to regular
order. Since that time, the Appropriations Committee has passed all 12
bills before the July 4 recess, all with strong bipartisan margins--the
first time, as the Presiding Officer knows, it has been done in 30
years.
The first minibus contained three bills and passed the Senate by a
vote of 86 to 5. It is now in conference with the House. The second
minibus contained four bills, two of which had not seen the light of
day on the Senate floor in many years--Interior and FSGG. That package
passed by a vote of 92 to 6. Hopefully, it will soon be in conference
as well.
By August, the Senate had passed more appropriations bills than our
counterparts in the House. That had not happened in the last 20 years.
None of this would have been possible, as the Presiding Officer knows,
without the partnership of Vice Chairman Leahy and the leadership of
Senators McConnell and Schumer. I thank each of them once again.
Our work continues, starting now. We have a great opportunity to
extend the success we have generated thus far. It has been more than a
decade since the Senate passed a Labor-HHS appropriations bill, period,
and it has been a dozen years since the President was able to sign a
Defense appropriations bill into law before October 1. These two
records, I believe, must be broken.
We must not only provide the resources necessary to rebuild our
military, we must do so before the end of the fiscal year. There is no
time to waste when it comes to our national security. With the
confirmed cooperation of my colleagues, I am confident we will continue
to get our work done in a deliberate and timely manner. I thank all
Senators for working together to produce regular order in the
appropriations process.
I yield the floor.
I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order
for the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Remembering Aretha Franklin
Ms. STABENOW. Madam President, I rise to pay tribute to a woman whose
voice and whose soul truly was larger than life.
Aretha Franklin was known, first and foremost, as a singer, and what
a singer she was. For so many of us, her voice provided a soundtrack to
the highs and lows of our lives.
A couple of things happened on April 29, 1967. For one, it was my
17th birthday. For another, that was the day Aretha Franklin released
``Respect.'' Let me tell you, that song felt like a gift that day, and
it has felt like a gift every time I have heard it ever since. Her
voice really was a gift, not just to me but to the whole world. She won
18 Grammys, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, was the 1994 Kennedy
Center Honors awardee, and was the first woman inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame. She was the recipient of the highest civilian
honor in the United States, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. A panel
of music experts convened by Rolling Stone magazine in 2008 named her
the greatest singer of all time--not bad for a preacher's daughter from
Detroit.
All those awards are important; however, they don't begin to measure
how she made us feel. I will never forget the 2015 Kennedy Center
Honors, which saluted my friend and singer-songwriter Carole King.
Aretha strolled onstage in her jewels and her furs, and she was pure
magic. Her soulful rendition of ``Natural Woman'' made Carole King
dance in her seat, and she made President Obama tear up. Those final,
magnificent notes--when she tossed her coat on the stage and raised her
arms in triumph--brought every single person in that audience to their
feet, including me.
Her voice was remarkable--so remarkable, in fact, that in 1986 the
Michigan Legislature declared it to be a precious natural resource.
That remarkable voice of hers wasn't limited to songs, however. Aretha
also used her voice--sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly--to speak up
for justice and to make a difference in Detroit and across the country.
That is probably no surprise, given her roots.
Aretha was the daughter of Pastor C.L. Franklin of New Bethel Baptist
Church in Detroit, and she first found her soulful voice singing and
playing the piano in church and in other places in Detroit. The
Reverend Franklin was active in the civil rights movement, alongside
leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Aretha was there to
fund the work. Her longtime friend, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, shared
his memory with the Detroit Free Press last week:
When Dr. King was alive, several times she helped us make
payroll. On one occasion, we took an 11-city tour with her as
Aretha Franklin and Harry Belafonte . . . and they put gas in
the vans. She did 11 concerts for free.
He added:
Aretha has always been a very socially conscious artist, an
inspiration, not just an entertainer.
We certainly know this in Michigan, where she was named the
Michiganian of the Year in 2003 and was awarded the Detroit News's
Lifetime Achievement Award in June. According to Pastor Robert Smith,
Jr., of New Bethel Baptist, a few times a year, Aretha would send the
church checks--big ones, not small ones. That was in addition to her
annual free concerts featuring famous gospel singers and free holiday
meals.
Speaking of food, Aretha's generous support of food banks in Metro
Detroit was one reason she was named the 2008 MusiCares Person of the
Year. Her generosity literally fed Detroit families, and her music fed
the world's souls.
I was personally honored to have the opportunity to be with Aretha on
many occasions. I was particularly honored to have the opportunity to
introduce her a year ago, in June 2017, when she gave her last concert
in Detroit, MI, at the Detroit music festival. I know I am not the only
person who can say that no matter the song, no matter the temperature,
when I hear Aretha sing, I get chills.
The world has lost a legend; however, the world can take comfort in
the fact that Aretha will always be with us. In her voice, Aretha was
given an amazing gift. Her gift to us was sharing it, and we are very
grateful.
Mr. President, I yield the floor.
I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Ohio.
Mr. BROWN. Mr. President, I ask that the order for the quorum call be
rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Ohio State Work Period
Mr. BROWN. Mr. President, as a number of my colleagues did, last week
when the Senate wasn't in session, as I always do, I returned to my
beloved State of Ohio and went home to Cleveland and spent much of last
week going around the State.
I love Pope Francis's comment when he exhorted his parish priests to
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and smell like the flock. That says to me how important it is to go out
and listen to people and listen to people's concerns.
I was in Lima talking to workers about pensions and about their work
manufacturing. I was in Findlay with the mayor and a number of
providers, and we listened to people talk about what they are doing to
address the opioid crisis in Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton, and around the
State.
What strikes me perhaps more than anything is the dignity of work;
that whether you see someone waiting tables in a diner, whether you see
someone at a plant working on an assembly line, whether you see
somebody doing construction, whether you see somebody in a school or in
a hospital, taking care of children in a school, taking care of
patients in a hospital, what comes through to me is just the dignity of
work.
What concerns me is, this body doesn't really understand that. They
don't understand people want a chance to make a living, they want a
decent wage, they want a chance to raise their children in a safe
neighborhood, and they want access to housing.
We know one out of four people who rent in this country spend more
than half their income for housing, and we know what that means if
something goes wrong in their lives, if their car breaks down, if their
child gets sick, that they can lose their apartment, they can be
foreclosed on, they can be evicted.
To me, what came through this trip around the State this week more
than anything was how this body is so out of touch with what work
means; the honor, the dignity of work, how honorable it is; that
people, whether they work with their brains or their hands or their
brains and their hands, as most people do, that work should be
rewarded.
We are seeing workers work harder than ever before. We are seeing
corporate profits go up. We are seeing executive compensation explode.
We are seeing productivity rise. Yet workers' wages are flat.
In fact, during the last year and a half, while the stock market is
up and the President brags about job growth--and we all are happy with
job growth--what we don't hear said, which is true, is that workers'
wages have been stagnant or have gone down. Workers are actually making
less than they were a year and a half ago.
We know that since 2010, since the auto rescue, we have seen job
growth every quarter, every month since 2010. We saw greater job growth
3 years ago than we have the last 2 years, but we have not seen wage
growth, and I will give you one of the reasons for that.
Congress passed a tax bill less than a year ago, and that tax bill,
first of all, blew a hole in the budget. That is a problem because now
my Republican colleagues want to raise the retirement age for Medicare,
want to cut spending for the cleanup of Lake Erie, want to cut spending
on things like LIHEAP, the low-income energy heating assistance plan
for seniors who are struggling with the decision, do I pay for my
medicine or my heat or do I have enough food to eat. So it is a
question of this Congress has not really--they passed a tax bill that
blows a hole in the deficit. At the same time, think about this one
provision in the tax bill.
If you are making cars in Youngstown, OH, Lordstown, or in Toledo, if
you are making the Jeep or the Chevy Cruze in Youngstown, and you pay a
21-percent tax rate--that corporation--but if that corporation decides
to move overseas, they pay a tax rate of 10.5 percent. So, in other
words, because of the tax bill the President signed fewer than 12
months ago, the Federal Government is saying, we are going to give a
corporation a 50-percent-off coupon on their taxes if they move
overseas.
So what did GM just do? The same day GM announced more than 1,000
workers in Lordstown, OH, were laid off--the same day--they announced
they were going to build a plant in Mexico to make the Chevy Blazer.
Now, I asked the CEO of GM, if you are going to lay off people in
Lordstown, if you are making fewer Chevy Cruzes, why don't you retool,
invest some of those billions of dollars in tax savings in Lordstown,
OH, in the Mahoning Valley and Youngstown or at the GM plant in
Defiance or at the GM plant in Toledo or in some of your GM supply
chain, GM suppliers? Why don't you invest there instead of in Mexico?
She didn't say this was the reason, but it is pretty clear because the
special interests in this body, meeting in the majority leader's
office, meeting in the Speaker's office, meeting in the White House--
and the White House looks like a retreat for corporate executives if we
have ever seen any such thing--made a decision to give tax breaks to
companies that move overseas. So more and more companies are going to
see it is attractive. They like that idea of a 50-percent-off coupon to
shut down production in Mansfield, OH, and move to Vietnam or to China
or to South Korea or to Turkey or to Mexico.
Imagine that. Imagine both the economic illiteracy and the moral
debauchery, if you will, of setting up a tax bill that says: We will
give you a lower tax rate if you move overseas. I mean, what kind of a
Congress passes a bill that says if you move overseas, we will lower
your tax rate? That is what Congress did. It was already bad enough
before we passed this last tax bill, but now we are seeing what I think
is going to happen more and more. GM makes a decision: They lay off
people in Youngstown, paying a 21-percent tax rate, they move overseas,
and they are paying a 10.5-percent tax rate. I don't understand the
logic. I don't understand the morality of that.
I hope this Congress will look at my legislation, which will turn
that around. It is our jobs and car act that simply will say: If you
buy an American car--and 100 different models of cars and trucks
qualify for this--if you buy an American car or an American truck,
meaning mostly made in the United States, assembled here, you will get
$3,500 off the price of that car at the dealership, and that is, in
essence, paid for by making the tax rate we charge U.S. companies that
move overseas--charge that same tax rate that we charge in this
country. That is how you pay for it.
It makes sense. It would mean more jobs in Ohio. It would matter for
the dignity of work because autoworkers and the supply chain and
steelworkers, glassmakers, and people making car seats in Northwest
Ohio--all of them will have more jobs and will be able to provide for
their families in a way that they really believe the American dream is
all about.
I suggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order
for the quorum call be rescinded.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kennedy). Without objection, it is so
ordered.
Tribute to Kara Nelson
Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, it is Thursday. Even though we had a
short week here in the Senate, it is one of my favorite times of the
week because I get to talk about the Alaskan of the Week, which is a
recognition we give to somebody who is doing something important in our
State.
I can see by the smile on the pages' faces that it is their favorite
time of the week, too, because we talk about Alaska and we talk about
somebody who is making a difference. Maybe, it is a difference just in
their local community. Maybe, it is in the State. Maybe, it is
nationwide.
What I really enjoy doing in this speech every week is not just
highlighting my great State. Of course, we all think our States are
great. I know the Presiding Officer thinks his State is great, and I
encourage people watching on TV or in the Galleries to come on up to
Alaska. You will have the trip of a lifetime. There is great fishing
right now and wonderful, beautiful scenery, but the reason you will
love it so much is the people--strong, tough, resilient, wonderful
people. That is what we do in terms of the Alaskan of the Week. We talk
about the people.
Today, I want to talk about someone very special, a woman who has
become a good friend of mine, named Kara Nelson. She is our Alaskan of
the Week. Kara calls Juneau home.
Sometimes our Alaskans of the Week are unsung heroes. Maybe they have
been working on something for years--decades, really--and not a lot of
people know what they are doing. Other times, their efforts go from
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hardly noticed to somebody who is really noticed. I would say that Kara
is somebody who, over the last couple of years, is really noticed. She
is kind of a rock star in the State, and to be honest, she deserves the
attention that she is given.
Kara works with women who have been in trouble, who have struggled
with the issues of addiction, and have gone to prison sometimes for it.
She is working with women who are trying to get a new start in life.
There is nothing more important, I think--whether it is in Alaska or
Louisiana, or anywhere in the country--than to give people a new start.
Here is a little bit about Kara, who has been generous enough to
share her story openly, because it can be a difficult story to tell.
She was born and raised mostly in Ketchikan--``logging camps,'' she
calls them. She was a good student. She was a good athlete. She got
good grades. But then, unfortunately, like too many of our young people
today--whether in Alaska or anywhere across the country--she started
using drugs.
Eventually drugs took over her life completely. She dropped out of
high school, and, in her words, ``lived the life of an addict'' for 20
years. For two decades, she was addicted to heroin and other drugs. She
was arrested in 2005 for drug-related charges. For years--again, like
so many people who we are seeing in our country--she ping-ponged in and
out of prison until she was released on June 1, 2011.
It has been a tough life with tough experiences, but here is the good
news. What has she done with that life since? She has been clean and
sober ever since, which we all know is not easy. It takes courage. It
takes discipline. She credits her faith and the peer support community
she was able to find once she was released from prison. It is the kind
of support she is now offering to hundreds of women across Alaska.
Shortly after her release from prison, Kara began to attend meetings
led by two women she knew had been part of prison ministries. These
women, Ellen Campbell and Ramona Ignell, had an idea of opening up a
place for women who were getting out of prison and needed help
transitioning into freedom. They needed help. Many were going through
their own addiction challenges. They thought Kara would be the perfect
person to direct the program. As all Alaskans know now, they thought
right because she was that person.
In 2015, the transition house that Kara and others founded, called
Haven House, in Juneau, AK, opened its doors. So far, 33 women have
gone through the program and only 2 have reoffended, which is a
remarkable record and success story.
Kara is also involved in so many other programs throughout the State.
There are actually too many to name, but let me give you a few
highlights. These are just a few of the highlights of what she has
done. She is the cochair of the Juneau Reentry Coalition and the
cofounder of the Juneau Recovery Community Organization. In 2016, she
was a fellow of Just Leadership USA. She is an active member of the
Juneau Homeless and Housing Coalition, Juneau's Disability Abuse
Response Team, Juneau's Recovery Coaches Advisory Board, and Alaska's
Statewide Recidivism Reduction Task Force. The list is a lot longer
than that. That gives you a sense of how involved she is and how much
she cares about these issues. Last year, for all her work, she was
awarded the prestigious Director's Community Leadership Award from the
FBI in recognition of her outstanding service to the advancement of
justice.
In the middle of all of this hard work, she went back to school to
finish her associate's degree and was able to be reunited with her
three children. On paper and in a speech like this, this certainly all
looks impressive, but I am here to tell you there is nothing like
hearing her story in person.
Let me take you back to a meeting I had in 2015. I had just been
elected. Kara and seven other women--three of whom were recently out of
prison and the first residents of Haven House--came to my office. They
were in DC to attend a march to combat addiction. They were trying to
get Members of the Senate and the House to support the Comprehensive
Addiction and Recovery Act, cosponsored and led by my good friend
Senator Rob Portman, from Ohio, and my good friend from Rhode Island,
Senator Whitehouse.
They came to my office. On this day, I had certainly one of the most
impactful meetings I have had in the Senate. It was a meeting where
they were all very honest and open about what they had been through,
and, to be perfectly blunt, these women have been through hell. They
talked about it with courage, grace, and dignity. They talked about how
Alaskans were suffering through this addiction--opioid and heroin
addiction, in particular--and how they needed help and how they needed
Federal legislation.
Their honesty, resiliency, and courage were something I was so
impressed by, so moved by. In many ways, it was a gift for me as a
Senator to see this and to try, just a little bit, to understand this.
This meeting went very long. After I heard these stories, I started
reading more about this crisis. It is impacting all of our States, and
certainly many parts of Alaska. I told my staff that we have to focus
on this. For 2 years, we convened a summit in our State. It was called
the Alaska Wellness Summit: Conquering the Opioid Crisis.
Kara and her colleagues who came to see me inspired all of us to do
this. In many ways, they were the stars of this event. They told the
Alaskans who gathered their stories and their challenges. We talked
about all kinds of issues--Federal, State, and local. We brought
Federal officials to this summit. The Surgeon General of the United
States came. The Deputy Secretary of HHS came. Statewide and local
officials were all there gathering together, saying: We can do this. We
can tackle this. Let's work together. There is hope. There is hope
because of people like Kara.
I have a big State in terms of territory, but it is not a big State
in terms of population. Over 500 people showed up at this summit, with
several hundred more online to listen and to get ideas and to give us
ideas and to get inspiration from people like Kara. Inspired by that
summit and people like Kara, we are organizing another summit--
actually, tomorrow--in Anchorage: the Alaska Wellness Summit 2.0. This
event will also bring together, like we did before, a number of
Federal, State, and local stakeholders to discuss not only the
addiction epidemic but also issues relating to drug trafficking and,
unfortunately, the associated crime wave that is hitting many of the
communities in Alaska and victimizing many Alaskans.
Kara will be one of the people in front of hundreds presenting at the
summit. Again, she will likely talk about her own experiences and
inspire people and give them courage that they can get through what
they are going through, and she will talk about how successful peer-to-
peer work has been for her and the other women she has been working
with. Whatever she talks about tomorrow, I know that she will bring
courage, insight, and internal fire because she has it. She has been
through a lot. She is a leader, and she is a leader by example.
I want to conclude by saying that her work and the work of so many
others on tackling this crisis and all of the difficult side effects is
so important. Kara, please keep it up. From the bottom of my heart,
thank you for all the work you have done, for your courage, your
commitment, and your inspiration, and, of course, congratulations to
you on being our Alaskan of the Week.
I yield the floor.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
AMENDMENT NO. 3705 AND AMENDMENT NO. 3706 TO AMENDMENT NO. 3695
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the
following amendments be called up en bloc and reported by number:
Menendez-Murkowski No. 3705 and Fischer-Baldwin No. 3706. I further ask
consent that at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, August 20, the Senate vote in
relation to the amendments in the order listed and that there be no
second-degree amendments in order to the amendments prior to the votes.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The clerk will report the amendments en bloc by number.
The assistant bill clerk read as follows:
The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. McConnell], for others,
proposes amendment
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numbered 3705 and amendment numbered 3706 to amendment No.
3695 en bloc.
The amendments are as follows:
Amendment No. 3705
(Purpose: To provide funding for the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of
2018)
At the appropriate place in title II of division B insert
the following:
Sec. __. (a) There is appropriated under the heading
``National Institute for Occupational Safely and Health''
under the heading ``Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention'', in addition to any other amounts made available
under such heading, $1,000,000 to implement the Firefighter
Cancer Registry Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-194).
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the
total amount appropriated under the heading ``General
Departmental Management'' under the heading ``Office of the
Secretary'' is hereby reduced by $1,000,000.
Amendment No. 3706
(Purpose: To appropriate an additional $10,000,000 for Operation and
Maintenance, Defense-Wide for POW/MIA identification within the Defense
Personnel Accounting Agency, and to provide an offset)
At the appropriate place in title VIII of division A,
insert the following:
Sec. ___. (a) The amount appropriated by title II of this
division under the heading ``Operation and Maintenance,
Defense-Wide'' is hereby increased by $10,000,000, with the
amount of the increase to be available for POW/MIA
identification within the Defense Personnel Accounting
Agency.I20 (b) The amount appropriated by title II of this
division under the heading ``Operation and Maintenance,
Defense-Wide'' is hereby decreased by $10,000,000.
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