S.Amdt. 697

SA 697. Mr. BOOKER 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
section:

SEC. ___. PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR
TERMINATION OF VETS4WARRIORS CRISIS HOTLINE
PROGRAM.

None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act
or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2018 for the
Department of Defense may be obligated or expended to

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terminate the Vets4Warriors crisis hotline program unless the
Secretary of Defense has submitted to the congressional
defense committees a report describing a sufficient
replacement to such program.
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