[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 88 (Monday, June 6, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3418]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4377. Mr. HATCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2017 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 A of title XVI, add the following:

     SEC. 1613. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON PROCUREMENT OF VEHICLES FOR 
                   THE EVOLVED EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE PROGRAM.

       It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Air 
     Force should assess whether there could be benefits from 
     maintaining three providers of vehicles for the evolved 
     expendable launch vehicle program for next-generation launch 
     to mitigate risk in the program and to increase competition 
     in and lower the cost of the program.
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