S.Amdt. 1772

SA 1772. Ms. WARREN (for herself and Mr. Markey) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to

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amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, 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 E of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 844. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON BERRY-COMPLIANT FOOTWEAR.

It is the sense of Congress that the Department of Defense
should, not later than 30 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, expedite the purchase of and
availability to enlisted initial entrants of the United
States Armed Forces, either as an in-kind issue or by cash
allowance, such Berry Amendment-compliant athletic footwear
as has been qualified for use during initial entrant training
to the exclusion of similar non-Berry-compliant footwear.
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