S.Amdt. 2382

SA 2382. Ms. COLLINS (for herself and Mr. King) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr.
Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) and intended to be proposed to the
bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 XI, add the following:

SEC. 1107. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION ON AUTHORITY TO REDUCE THE
SIZE OF THE CIVILIAN WORKFORCE OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

No provision of this Act or amendment made by this Act may
be construed to provide the Secretary of Defense any
authority to reduce the size of the civilian workforce of the
Department of Defense in a manner not otherwise authorized by
section 1597 of title 10, United States Code.
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