[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 139 (Tuesday, August 21, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5767]
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  SA 3799. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, and Ms. Duckworth) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3695 
proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6157, making appropriations for 
the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2019, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place in 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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