S.Amdt. 963

SA 963. Mr. SCHUMER 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 X, add the following:

SEC. ___. SENSE OF SENATE ON NAMING A DESTROYER OF THE NAVY
AFTER THE LATE PATRICK GALLAGHER, UNITED STATES
MARINE CORPS.

It is the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of the
Navy should name an otherwise unnamed destroyer of the Navy
on the Naval Vessel Register as of the date of the enactment
of this Act, or an unnamed destroyer added to the Naval
Vessel Register after that date, after the late Patrick
Gallagher, United States Marine Corps, who was awarded the
Navy Cross.
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