[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3517]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 514. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. Udall, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Schatz, 
Mr. Tester, and Mr. Murphy) submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2020 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 appropriate place in division A , insert the 
     following:

     SEC. ___. PROHIBITION ON USE OF NATIONAL DEFENSE FUNDS FOR 
                   PHYSICAL BARRIER ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER.

       (a) Prohibition.--National defense funds may not be 
     obligated, expended, or otherwise used to design or carry out 
     a project to construct, replace, or modify a wall, fence, or 
     other physical barrier along the international border between 
     the United States and Mexico.
       (b) National Defense Funds Defined.--In this section, the 
     term ``national defense funds'' means--
       (1) amounts authorized to be appropriated for any purpose 
     under this division or authorized to be appropriated in 
     division A of any National Defense Authorization Act for any 
     of fiscal years 2015 through 2019, including any amounts of 
     such an authorization made available to the Department of 
     Defense and transferred to another authorization by the 
     Secretary of Defense pursuant to transfer authority available 
     to the Secretary; and
       (2) amounts appropriated in any Act pursuant to an 
     authorization of appropriations described in paragraph (1).
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