S.Amdt. 697

SA 697. Ms. WARREN (for herself, Mr. Markey, Ms. Cantwell, Mrs.

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Gillibrand, Mr. Van Hollen, and Mr. Merkley) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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 in title XVI, insert the
following:

SEC. 16__. PROHIBITION ON DEPLOYMENT OF LOW-YIELD SUBMARINE-
LAUNCHED BALLISTIC MISSILE.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the
funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise
made available for the Department of Defense may be obligated
or expended to arm Trident II D5 submarine-launched ballistic
missiles fielded on Ohio class ballistic missile submarines
with the W76-2 low-yield warhead.
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