Of a perfecting nature.

SA 1613. Mr. LEAHY proposed an amendment to amendment SA 1511
proposed by Mr. Leahy (for himself, Ms. Collins, Mr. Kennedy, Ms.
Snowe, Mr. Levin, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Cardin,
Mr. Whitehouse, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Specter, Mr. Franken, Ms. Mikulski,
Mr. Merkley, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Menendez Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Kerry, Mr.
Udall of Colorado, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Casey, Ms.
Cantwell, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Lieberman, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Brown, Mr.
Akaka, Mr. Sanders, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Reed, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Kaufman,
Mr. Inouye, Ms. Stabenow, and Mr. Reid) to the bill S. 1390, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 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; as
follows:

At the end of the amendment, insert the following:
(b) First Amendment.--Nothing in this division, or an
amendment made by this division, shall be construed to
diminish any rights under the first amendment to the
Constitution of the United States.
(c) Constitutional Protections.--Nothing in this division
shall be construed to prohibit any constitutionally protected
speech, expressive conduct or activities (regardless of
whether compelled by, or central to, a system of religious
belief), including the exercise of religion protected by the
first amendment to the Constitution of the United States and
peaceful picketing or demonstration. The Constitution does
not protect speech, conduct or activities consisting of
planning for, conspiring to commit, or committing an act of
violence.
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