[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 42 (Monday, March 12, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3003-S3004]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. DOMENICI (for himself and Mr. Bingaman):
  S. 842. A bill to authorize to be appropriated $9,200,000 for fiscal 
year 2008 to acquire real property and carry out military construction 
projects at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico; to the Committee on 
Armed Services.
  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I rise today to introduce legislation 
authorizing new construction at Cannon Air Force Base, NM.
  I am proud to offer this bill because Cannon has a variety of 
military construction needs because of a June 2006 decision by the 
Secretary of Defense to use Cannon Air Force Base as an Air Force 
Special Operations base.
  Two of these needs are an MC-130 Flight Simulator facility and 
renovations to an existing Hangar to accommodate C-130 aircraft. The 
Department of Defense budgeted for both of these items in its fiscal 
year 2008 Defense budget request, and in keeping with that request my 
legislation authorizes $7.5 million for the MC-130 Flight Simulator 
facility and $1.7 million for hangar renovations.
  Our special operations forces are a part of some of the most 
important missions in the Global War on Terror, and we have more 
special operations warfighters deployed now than ever before. I am 
proud to support those soldiers, and I look forward to working on this 
bill and taking other actions to support our special operations forces.

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  I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the 
Record.
  There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be 
printed in the Record, as follows:

                                 S. 842

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. AUTHORITY TO CARRY OUT MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 
                   PROJECTS AT CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, NEW MEXICO.

       (a) Authority.--Using amounts appropriated pursuant to the 
     authorization of appropriations under subsection (b), the 
     Secretary of the Air Force may acquire real property and 
     carry out military construction projects at Cannon Air Force 
     Base, New Mexico, as specified under such subsection.
       (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated for fiscal year 2008 for military 
     construction and land acquisition for the Department of the 
     Air Force the following amounts:
       (1) For the construction or alteration of a C-130 aircraft 
     hangar at Cannon Air Force, New Mexico, $1,700,000.
       (2) For the construction of an MC-130 Flight Simulator 
     Facility at Cannon Air Force, New Mexico, $7,500,000.
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