[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 36 (Tuesday, March 4, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S1529]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. DOMENICI (for himself and Mr. Bingaman):
  S. 2698. A bill to authorize to be appropriated to the Department of 
the Air Force for fiscal year 2009 $2,150,000 for additions and 
alterations to a Jet Engine Maintenance Shop at Holloman 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 Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.
  I am proud to offer this bill because there are a number of military 
construction needs at Holloman as a result of a decision by the 
Secretary of the Air Force to use Holloman Air Force Base as an F-22 
Raptor base.
  One of these is a Jet Engine Maintenance Shop to support the F-22 
transition and stationing at Holloman. The Department of Defense 
budgeted for this item in its fiscal year 2009 Defense budget request, 
and in keeping with that request my legislation authorizes $2.15 
million for the construction of the Jet Engine Maintenance Shop.
  Mr. President, our airmen are one of the most important assets we 
have in the Global War on Terror, and they need adequate facilities to 
do their work. I am proud to offer this legislation to support them in 
one of their newest missions, flying the F-22A Raptor.
  Mr. President, 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. 2698

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

     SECTION 1. MODIFICATION OF JET ENGINE MAINTENANCE SHOP, 
                   HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NEW MEXICO.

       (a) Project Authorization.--The Secretary of the Air Force 
     may construct additions and alterations to the Jet Engine 
     Maintenance Shop at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, in 
     the amount of $2,150,000.
       (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated $2,150,000 for fiscal year 2009 for 
     military construction, land acquisition, and military family 
     housing functions of the Department of the Air Force to carry 
     out the project authorized under subsection (a).

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