[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 94 (Thursday, June 7, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3321]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2405. Mr. GARDNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. 
McCain) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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:

       In section 891, amend subsection (b) to read as follows:
       (b) Prohibition on Use or Procurement.--The Secretary of 
     Defense may not--
       (1) procure or obtain or extend or renew or continue to 
     participate in a contract to procure or obtain or continue to 
     use any equipment, system, or service that uses covered 
     telecommunications equipment or services as a substantial or 
     essential component of any system, or as critical technology 
     as part of any system; or
       (2) enter into a contract (or extend or renew or continue 
     to participate in a contract) with an entity that uses any 
     equipment, system, or service that uses covered 
     telecommunications equipment or services as a substantial or 
     essential component of any system, or as critical technology 
     as part of any system.
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