[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 123 (Monday, July 29, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5556-S5557]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3192. 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

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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. SUPPORT FOR FACULTY AND CAMPUS OPERATIONS AT THE 
                   SERVICE ACADEMIES IN THE EVENT OF A GOVERNMENT 
                   SHUTDOWN.

       (a) In General.--In the event of a lapse in appropriations 
     for the Department of Defense, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     ensure the continuation of--
       (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) 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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