S.Amdt. 802

SA 802. Mr. CARDIN 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. __. CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT THAT MILITARY ACTIONS ARE
NOT INFLUENCED BY FINANCIAL OR BENEFICIAL
INTERESTS HELD BY THE PRESIDENT.

The United States Armed Forces may not take any military
action in any country in which the President or the
President's close relatives (immediate family, including
spouse, children, and sons- and-daughters-in-law) have assets
or businesses in which they hold an ownership interest,
financial interest, or beneficial interest unless the
President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff jointly certify to Congress that the
proposed military action is not influenced in any way by any
financial or beneficial interest held by the President.
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