S.Amdt. 730

SA 730. Mr. NELSON (for himself and Mr. Cotton) 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 XVI, add the following:

SEC. ___. PROHIBITION ON ESTABLISHMENT OF MILITARY DEPARTMENT
OR CORPS SEPARATE FROM OR SUBORDINATE TO THE
CURRENT MILITARY DEPARTMENTS.

No funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or
otherwise available for fiscal year 2018 for the Department
of Defense may be used to establish a military department or
corps separate from or subordinate to the current military
departments, including a Space Corps in the Department of the
Air Force, or a similar such corps in any other military
department.
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