S.Amdt. 1084

SA 1084. Mr. CORNYN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1003 proposed by Mr. McCain (for himself and Mr. Reed) to
the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018
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 appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. ELIMINATION OF DEFENSE SEQUESTRATION.

Section 251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Within'' and inserting
``Subject to subsection (d), within'';
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``Each'' and inserting
``Subject to subsection (d), each'';
(C) in paragraph (4), in the matter preceding subparagraph
(A), by striking ``If'' inserting ``Subject to subsection
(d), if'';
(D) in paragraph (5), by striking ``If'' and inserting
``Subject to subsection (d), if''; and
(E) in paragraph (6), by striking ``If'' and inserting
``Subject to subsection (d), if''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
``(d) Exemption of Revised Security Category From
Sequestration.--
``(1) In general.--For fiscal year 2018, and each fiscal
year thereafter, if there is a breach within the revised
security category--
``(A) there shall not be a sequestration within the revised
security category; and
``(B) there shall be a sequestration within the revised
nonsecurity category in the amount necessary to eliminate the
breach within the revised security category.
``(2) Elimination of breach.--Any sequestration of the
revised nonsecurity category under this subsection shall be
implemented in accordance with subsection (a), as if the
amount of the breach were a breach within the revised
nonsecurity category.''.
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