[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2855-S2856]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 741. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2024 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:

       Strike section 1518 and insert the following:

     SEC. 1518. PROHIBITION WITH RESPECT TO ESTABLISHMENT OF 
                   NUCLEAR-ARMED SEA-LAUNCHED CRUISE MISSILE 
                   CAPABILITY.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act 
     or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2024 for the 
     Department

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     of Defense may be obligated or expended to establish a 
     program for the development of a nuclear-armed, sea-launched 
     cruise missile capability.
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