S.Amdt. 1987

SA 1987. Mr. MURPHY (for himself, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Udall, Mr.
Blumenthal, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Tester, Mr. Merkley, Ms. Baldwin, and
Mrs. Boxer) 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 G title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1283. PROHIBITION ON DEPLOYMENT OF GROUND COMBAT TROOPS
IN IRAQ AND SYRIA.

No funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act may be
used to support the deployment of the United States Armed
Forces for the purpose of ground combat operations in Iraq or
Syria, except as necessary--
(1) for the protection or rescue of members of the United
States Armed Forces or United States citizens from imminent
danger posed by ISIL; or
(2) to conduct missions not intended to result in ground
combat operations by United States forces, such as--
(A) intelligence collection and sharing;
(B) enabling kinetic strikes;
(C) limited operations against high value targets;
(D) operational planning; or
(E) other forms of advice and assistance to coalition
forces fighting ISIL in Iraq or Syria.
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