[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4898]
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  SA 2547. Mr. BENNET (for himself, Mr. Hickenlooper, and Mrs. 
Gillibrand) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to 
the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 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 end of subtitle A of title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 1006. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS TO SUPPORT FACULTY AND 
                   CAMPUS OPERATIONS AT THE SERVICE ACADEMIES IN 
                   THE EVENT OF A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.

       (a) In General.--For any period in which there is a lapse 
     in appropriations for the Department of Defense, there are 
     appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
     appropriated, such sums as are necessary to provide--
       (1) pay to faculty members at the Service Academies; and
       (2) funding for mixed-funded athletic and recreational 
     extracurricular programs of the Service Academies, to the 
     extent such funding is not available from non-appropriated 
     funds sources.
       (b) Termination.--Appropriations and funds made available 
     and authority granted for any fiscal year under subsection 
     (a) shall be available until whichever of the following first 
     occurs:
       (1) The enactment into law of an appropriation (including a 
     continuing appropriation) for the purposes for which amounts 
     are made available under subsection (a).
       (2) The enactment into law of a regular appropriation Act, 
     or a law making continuing appropriations until the end of 
     the fiscal year, without any appropriation for such purposes.
       (c) Service Academy Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``Service Academy'' has the meaning given such term in 
     section 347 of title 10, United States Code.
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