S.Amdt. 3455

SA 3455. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 3399 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6147,
making appropriations for the Department of

[[Page S5280]]

the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; which was ordered to
lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title VII of division B, insert the
following:
Sec. ___.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act or any other Act may be used--
(1) to prevent a Member of Congress from entering, for the
purpose of conducting oversight, any facility located in the
United States at which alien minors are housed or otherwise
detained;
(2) to require any Member of Congress to coordinate through
a Congressional entity for their entry into, for the purpose
of conducting oversight, any facility described in paragraph
(1); or
(3) to make any temporary modification at a facility
described in paragraph (1) that in any way alters what is
observed by a visiting Member of Congress, compared to what
would be observed in the absence of such modification.
______