[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3687]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2675. Mr. INHOFE 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 E of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1250. SENSE OF SENATE ON INCORPORATION OF NAVAL 
                   PROPULSION AND TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS MANUFACTURED 
                   IN THE UNITED STATES INTO THE NAVAL VESSELS OF 
                   UNITED STATES ALLIES IN THE INDO-PACIFIC 
                   REGION.

       It is the sense of the Senate that, consistent with the 
     Conventional Arms Transfer Policy of the United States 
     Government recently updated to promote policies that 
     strengthen our allies and partners around the world and 
     preserve peace while creating American manufacturing jobs--
       (1) it is in the interest of the United States that naval 
     propulsion and technology systems manufactured in the United 
     States be incorporated into warships of navies of close 
     allies of the United States, including Australia, Canada, 
     India, South Korea, Taiwan, and other countries pursuing the 
     modernization of their fleets; and
       (2) naval cooperation arising from the incorporation of 
     such systems into such warships will--
       (A) help guarantee interoperability and commonality of 
     warfighting systems between the United States and our allies 
     in the Indo-Pacific region; and
       (B) promote the expansion of the dynamism and innovation of 
     the defense industry manufacturing supply chain in the United 
     States.
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