[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 266 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 266

Expressing the sense of Congress that the Department of Defense should 
 continue to buy goods and services made domestically and not deviate 
from the domestic source and manufacturing restrictions on procurements 
                         as established by law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 29, 1998

 Mr. Strickland (for himself and Mr. LoBiondo) submitted the following 
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on National 
                                Security

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the Department of Defense should 
 continue to buy goods and services made domestically and not deviate 
from the domestic source and manufacturing restrictions on procurements 
                         as established by law.

Whereas the Department of Defense is responsible for protecting citizens of the 
        United States and its possessions from potential dangers from abroad;
Whereas it has always been a fundamental expectation that the Department of 
        Defense should function to protect, and, when possible, benefit American 
        communities, citizens, and their livelihoods, and has succeeded in doing 
        so through its domestic procurement program; and
Whereas the Department of Defense has proposed making exceptions to section 9005 
        of the National Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1993 
        (popularly known as the Berry Amendment), which restricts procurements 
        of certain articles, items, specialty metals, and tools to domestic 
        sources: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that the Department of Defense 
should--
            (1) continue to apply the domestic source restrictions 
        established by section 9005 of the National Defense 
        Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1993 (Public Law 102-396; 
        106 Stat. 1876); and
            (2) demonstrate greater fiscal responsibility in all other 
        areas before proposing to make any exceptions to such section.
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