S.Amdt. 4579

SA 4579. Mr. BENNET submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by

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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:

At the end of subtitle B of title IX, add the following:

SEC. 926. PROHIBITION ON CONSOLIDATION OF UNITED STATES
NORTHERN COMMAND WITH ANY OTHER GEOGRAPHIC
COMBATANT COMMAND.

No amounts authorized to be appropriated by this Act, or
amounts authorized to be appropriated for the Department of
Defense for a fiscal year before fiscal year 2017 that remain
available for obligation, may be used as follows:
(1) To consolidate the United States Northern Command with
any other geographic combatant command.
(2) To subordinate the United States Northern Command to
any other geographic combatant command.
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