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  SA 5515. Mr. DORGAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 3001, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2009 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 D of title IV, add the following:

     SEC. 556. PROHIBITION ON CONTRACTS FOR OUTSOURCING OF 
                   IMPLEMENTATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE 
                   EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM UNDER THE POST-
                   9/11 VETERANS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT OF 
                   2008.

       No amounts authorized to be appropriated by this Act or any 
     other Act may be obligated or expended to enter into a 
     contract with a non-governmental entity to implement or 
     administer on a permanent basis the provisions of chapter 33 
     of title 38, United States Code.
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