[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 12, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3852]
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  SA 2830. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. 
McCain) 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. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON SERVICE ACQUISITION REFORM.

       It is the sense of Congress--
       (1) that failure to expeditiously implement the 
     improvements required by section 2329 of title 10, United 
     States Code, is an opportunity cost to buying back the 
     readiness and modernizing the Department of Defense's 
     capabilities;
       (2) that the Department's most recent contractor 
     inventories submitted to Congress on February 25, 2018, 
     included ``approximately 25 percent, or just under $42 
     billion, of the department's total $160 billion-plus spend 
     for contracted services'';
       (3) that full accountability for the approximately 
     $160,000,000,000 spent annually on contract services is 
     required for good stewardship on behalf of the taxpayer 
     irrespective of whether these funds are expended through 
     prime or subcontract arrangements and irrespective of the 
     method of procurement used, whether as a commercial item or 
     service or any other means;
       (4) to support full implementation of Future Year Defense 
     Program detail visibility of spending on contract services to 
     accompany the budget exhibit required by section 2329 of 
     title 10, United States Code; and
       (5) to support Department of Defense efforts to coordinate 
     consistent and broad definitions of services contracts to 
     ensure full accountability for every dollar obligated and 
     expended with the full expectation that any future 
     clarifications of services contract definitions will not 
     reduce the scope of coverage of the $160,000,000,000 
     currently spent on contract services.
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