To express the sense of the Senate on funding for the replenishment of medical supply needs within the combat theaters of the Army.

SA 502. Mr. DODD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 1268, Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, to establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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medical support for tactical units

Sec. 1122. Of the amount appropriated or otherwise made available by this chapter under the heading “Operation and Maintenance, Army”, up to $11,500,000 may be available for--

(1) the replenishment of medical supply and equipment needs within the combat theaters of the Army, including bandages and other blood-clotting supplies that utilize hemostatic, wound-dressing technologies; and

(2) the provision of medical care for members of the Army who have returned to the United States from a combat theater and are in a medical holdover status.