To prevent retaliation against a member of the Armed Forces for providing testimony about the military value of a military installation.

SA 1491. Ms. COLLINS (for Mr. Thune (for himself, Mr. Lieberman, Ms. Collins, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Sununu, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Bingaman, and Mr. Domenici)) proposed an amendment to the bill S. 1042, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; as follows:

On page 371, between lines 8 and 9, insert the following:

SEC. 2887. TESTIMONY BY MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES IN CONNECTION WITH THE 2005 ROUND OF DEFENSE BASE CLOSURE AND REALIGNMENT.

(a) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Defense should permit any member of the Armed Forces to provide to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission testimony on the military value of a military installation inside the United States for purposes of the consideration by the Commission of the Secretary's recommendations for the 2005 round of defense base closure and realignment under section 2914(d) of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public Law 101-510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note).

(b) Protection Against Retaliation.--No member of the Armed Forces may be discharged, demoted, suspended, threatened, harassed, or in any other manner discriminated against because such member provided or caused to be provided testimony under subsection (a).