[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3624]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2614. Mr. MENENDEZ 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:

       At the end of subtitle I of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 896. ANNUAL REPORT ON ADVERTISING SPENDING ON SOCIALLY 
                   AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED SMALL BUSINESS 
                   CONTRACTORS.

       Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of Defense 
     shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report 
     estimating the portion of the of the Department of Defense's 
     advertising budget that is spent on advertising and public 
     relations contracts with socially and economically 
     disadvantaged small businesses and women, low-income, veteran 
     (as that term is defined in section 3(q) of the Small 
     Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(q)), and minority entrepreneurs 
     and business owners at the prime and subcontracting levels.
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