[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3488]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 395. Mr. ROUNDS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 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 C of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 835. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL 
                   BASE QUADRILATERAL COUNCIL.

       Section 2502 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(e) National Technology Industrial Base Quadrilateral 
     Council.--(1) The chairman of the National Defense Technology 
     and Industrial Base Council shall work with the equivalent 
     designees in the countries that comprise the national 
     technology industrial base to form the National Technology 
     Industrial Base Quadrilateral Council.
       ``(2) The National Technology Industrial Base Quadrilateral 
     Council shall meet biannually to harmonize respective 
     policies and regulations, and to propose new legislation that 
     increases the seamless integration between the persons and 
     organizations comprising the national technology and 
     industrial base.
       ``(3) The National Technology Industrial Base Quadrilateral 
     Council shall--
       ``(A) address and review issues related to indus- trial 
     security, supply-chain security, cybersecurity, regulating 
     foreign direct investment and foreign ownership, control and 
     influence mitigation, market research, technology assessment, 
     and research cooperation within public and private research 
     and development organizations and universities, technology 
     and export control measures, acquisition processes and 
     oversight, and management best practices; and
       ``(B) establish a mechanism for National Technology 
     Industrial Base Quadrilateral Council members to raise 
     disputes that arise within the national technology industrial 
     base at a government-to-government level.''.
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