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  SA 2025. Mr. NELSON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 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 part II of subtitle H of title V, add the 
     following:

     SEC. 593. AUTHORIZATION FOR AWARD OF THE DISTINGUISHED-
                   SERVICE CROSS FOR ACTS OF EXTRAORDINARY HEROISM 
                   DURING THE KOREAN WAR.

       Notwithstanding the time limitations specified in section 
     3744 of title 10, United States Code, or any other time 
     limitation with respect to the awarding of certain medals to 
     persons who served in the Armed Forces, the Secretary of the 
     Army may award the Distinguished-Service Cross under

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     section 3742 of such title to Edward Halcomb who, while 
     serving in Korea as a member of the United States Army in the 
     grade of Private First Class in Company B, 1st Battalion, 
     29th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, distinguished 
     himself by acts of extraordinary heroism from August 20, 
     1950, to October 19, 1950, during the Korean War.
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