S.Amdt. 979

SA 979. Mr. McCAIN 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 XII, add the following:

SEC. ___. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY TO SUPPORT BORDER
SECURITY OPERATIONS OF CERTAIN FOREIGN
COUNTRIES.

Paragraph (3) of section 1226(b) of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114-92;
129 Stat. 1056), as added by section 1294(b)(2) of the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year

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2017 (Public Law 114-328; 130 Stat. 2562), is amended by
striking ``for such fiscal year'' both places it appears.
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