S.Amdt. 679

SA 679. Mr. MARKEY 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. REALLOCATION OF FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR GROUND-LAUNCHED
INTERMEDIATE RANGE MISSILE TO MILITARY
CAPABILITIES TO COUNTER RUSSIAN INF TREATY
VIOLATIONS.

(a) Availability of Amounts to Counter Russian INF Treaty
Violations.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for
fiscal year 2018 for the Department of Defense by this Act is
hereby increased by $65,000,000, with the amount of the
increase to be available for military capabilities to counter
violations of the INF Treaty by the Russian Federation.
(b) Reduction of Amounts for Ground-launched Intermediate
Range Missile.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for
fiscal year 2018 by section 201 is hereby reduced by
$65,000,000, with the amount of the reduction to be applied
against amounts available for research, development, test,
and evaluation of the ground-launched intermediate range
missile.
(c) INF Treaty Defined.--In this section, the term ``INF
Treaty'' means the Treaty between the United States of
America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the
Elimination of their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range
Missiles, signed at Washington December 8, 1987, and entered
into force June 1, 1988.
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