[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 113 (Monday, July 13, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S3835]
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SA 6635. Mr. JOHNSON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2027 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 appropriate place in subtitle G of title X, insert
the following:
SEC. __. RIGHT TO TREAT ACT.
(a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b) and
notwithstanding any other provision of law--
(1) no Federal agency, including the Food and Drug
Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall have the
authority to regulate the practice of medicine; and
(2) no Federal law, rule, regulation, or policy shall
prohibit or restrict the prescription or disbursement for an
unapproved use of any drug that is approved by the Food and
Drug Administration, or that is available pursuant to section
561B of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C.
360bbb-0a).
(b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be
construed to affect any Federal law, rule, regulation, or
policy that restricts abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia,
mercy killing, coercive family planning, female genital
mutilation, or gender transition medical interventions.
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