[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5023-S5024]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2740. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 for

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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 H of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1095. DISPLAY OF UNITED STATES FLAG FOR PATRIOTIC AND 
                   MILITARY OBSERVANCES.

       (a) Amendment to Flag Code.--Section 8(c) of title 4, 
     United States Code, is amended by inserting ``, except as may 
     be necessary in limited circumstances and done in a 
     respectful manner as part of a military or patriotic 
     observance involving members of the Armed Forces'' after 
     ``aloft and free''.
       (b) Modification of Department of Defense Policy.--The 
     Secretary of Defense shall--
       (1) rescind the February 10, 2023, Department of Defense 
     memorandum entitled, ``Clarification of Department of Defense 
     Community Engagement Policy on Showing Proper Respect to the 
     United States Flag''; and
       (2) support military recruitment through public outreach 
     events during patriotic and military observances, including 
     the display of the United States flag regardless of size and 
     position, including horizontally, provided that, in 
     accordance with section 8(b) of title 4, United States Code, 
     the flag never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, 
     the floor, water, or merchandise.
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