S.Amdt. 897

SA 897. 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 G of title X, add the following:

SEC. ___. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE BUDGET CONTROL ACT OF
2011.

It is the sense of Congress--
(1) that there are ongoing concerns about the negative
impact of the Budget Control Act of 2011 (Public Law 112-25)
on the Department of Defense and other agencies that
contribute to the national security of the United States; and
(2) to support the unconditional repeal of that Act.
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