S.Amdt. 4194

SA 4194. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2017 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:

Strike section 601 and insert the following:

SEC. 601. FISCAL YEAR 2017 INCREASE IN MILITARY BASIC PAY.

(a) Waiver of Section 1009 Adjustment.--The adjustment to
become effective during fiscal year 2017 required by section
1009 of title 37, United States Code, in the rates of monthly
basic pay authorized members of the uniformed services shall
not be made.
(b) Increase in Basic Pay.--Effective on January 1, 2017,
the rates of monthly basic pay for members of the uniformed
services are increased by 2.1 percent.
(c) Funding.--
(1) Increase in amount for military personnel.--The amount
authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2017 by section
421 is hereby increased by the amount necessary to provide an
increase in military basic pay under subsection (b) by 2.1
percent rather than 1.6 percent, with the amount to be
available for military personnel to provide such increase.
(2) Offset.--The aggregate amount authorized to be
appropriated for fiscal year 2017 by this division, other
than the amount authorize to be appropriated by section 421,
is hereby reduced by the amount necessary to provide an
increase in military basic pay under subsection (b) by 2.1
percent rather than 1.6 percent, with the amount of the
reduction to be achieved by terminating funding for projects
determined to be low-priority projects by the Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
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