S.Amdt. 433

SA 433. Mr. TESTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him 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 end of subtitle A of title VI, add the following:

SEC. ___. REPEAL OF AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT TO DETERMINE
AN ALTERNATIVE ANNUAL PAY ADJUSTMENT FOR
MEMBERS OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES BASED ON
SERIOUS ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.

Section 1009(e) of title 37, United States Code, is
amended--
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``or serious economic
conditions affecting the general welfare'';
(2) by striking paragraph (2); and
(3) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2).
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