[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 188 (Tuesday, October 26, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7386-S7387]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3908. Mr. WARNOCK (for himself and Mr. Boozman) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. 
Reed and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2022 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 title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 10__. PRESERVATION OF MEMORIALS TO CHAPLAINS ON 
                   CHAPLAINS HILL AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY.

       (a) Updates to Memorials.--The National Conference on 
     Ministry to the Armed Forces, or any successor organization 
     recognized in law for purposes of this section, may, at no 
     cost to the Federal Government--
       (1)(A) update the memorial to Protestant chaplains located 
     in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, with a granite, 
     marble, or other stone base to host the bronze plaque of the 
     memorial;
       (B) add an additional plaque to such base that includes the 
     name of each chaplain, verified as described in subsection 
     (b), who died while on active duty since the original 
     memorial was placed; and
       (C) make such other updates and corrections to the memorial 
     as may from time to time be needed as determined by the 
     National Conference on Ministry to the Armed Forces or such 
     successor organization; and
       (2) make such updates and corrections to the memorial to 
     Catholic chaplains and the memorial to Jewish chaplains 
     located in Arlington National Cemetery as may from time

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     to time be needed as determined by the National Conference on 
     Ministry to the Armed Forces or such successor organization.
       (b) Verification of Names.--The National Conference on 
     Ministry to the Armed Forces, or any successor organization 
     recognized in law for purposes of this section, may verify 
     with the Chief of Chaplains of the Army, the Chief of 
     Chaplains of the Navy, the Chief of Chaplains for the Air 
     Force and the Space Force, and such agencies of the 
     Department of Defense as the Secretary of the Army considers 
     appropriate, the names of chaplains for memorialization in 
     Arlington National Cemetery.
       (c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section may be 
     construed as authorizing the expansion of any monument or 
     memorial that is located in Arlington National Cemetery as of 
     the date of the enactment of this Act.
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