S.Amdt. 592

SA 592. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Casey, Mr. Cochran,
Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Brown, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Cardin, Mr.
Moran, Mr. Coons, Ms. Duckworth, Ms. Hassan, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Leahy,
Mr. Markey, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Peters, Mr. Reed, Mrs.
Shaheen, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Tester, Mr. Udall, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr.
Warner, Ms. Warren, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Wyden, Ms. Hirono, and Mr.
Merkley) 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 C of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 737. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO MEDICAL
RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE.

(a) Medical Research and Development Projects.--Section
733, relating to a prohibition on funding and conduct of
certain medical research and development projects by the
Department of Defense, shall have no force or effect.
(b) Congressional Special Interest Medical Research
Programs.--Sections 891, 892, and 893, relating to
limitations on the authority of the Secretary of Defense to
enter into contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements for
congressional special interest medical research programs
under the congressionally directed medical research program
of the Department of Defense, shall have no force or effect.
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