[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 24, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3272]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1793. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Udall, Mr. Murphy, 
and Mr. Tester) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him 
to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 
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 the fiscal years 2016 through 2020, 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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