[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 146 (Monday, September 8, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S6410]
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SA 3802. Ms. DUCKWORTH (for herself and Mr. Durbin) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3748 proposed by Mr.
Wicker (for himself and Mr. Reed) to the bill S. 2296, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2026 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 D of title XXVIII, add the
following:
SEC. 2850. PROHIBITION ON USE OF MILITARY CONSTRUCTION FUNDS
TO DETAIN MIGRANTS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the
funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act for military construction purposes may
be used to construct, renovate, or expand any facility for
the purposes of detention of migrants by the Department of
Defense or to facilitate detention of migrants by the
Department of Homeland Security, including by housing
personnel of the Department of Homeland Security.
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