- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Amendments
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: June 24, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
SA 6136. Ms. DUCKWORTH (for herself and Mr. Durbin) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 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 XXVIII, insert the
following:
SEC. 28__. PROHIBITION ON USE OF MILITARY CONSTRUCTION FUNDS
TO DETAIN MIGRANTS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the
funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act for military construction purposes may
be used to construct, renovate, or expand any facility for
the purposes of detention of migrants by the Department of
Defense or to facilitate detention of migrants by the
Department of Homeland Security, including by housing
personnel of the Department of Homeland Security.