[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 144 (Thursday, September 7, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5069]
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SA 835. Mrs. MURRAY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 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 appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. __. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON DEVELOPMENT OF VEHICLES FOR
EVOLVED EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE PROGRAM.
It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Air
Force should end the reliance of the evolved expendable
launch vehicle program on rocket engines made in the Russian
Federation by continuing to invest in new launch vehicles
capable of supporting national security requirements.
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