S.Amdt. 1841

SA 1841. Mr. PERDUE (for himself and Mr. Cotton) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to 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, 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 end of subtitle A of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1209. USE OF ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO THE VETTED SYRIAN
OPPOSITION TO DEFEND THE SYRIAN PEOPLE AGAINST
THE ASSAD REGIME.

Section 1209(a) of the Carl Levin and Howard P. ``Buck''
McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2015 (Public Law 113-291; 128 Stat. 3541) is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs
(3) and (4), respectively; and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new
paragraph (2):
``(2) Defending the Syrian people from attacks by the
regime of President Bashir Assad.''.
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