[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3502]
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  SA 451. Ms. DUCKWORTH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her 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 III, add the following:

     SEC. 333. SENSE OF SENATE ON PRIORITIZING SURVIVABLE 
                   LOGISTICS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       It is the sense of the Senate that--
       (1) resilient and agile logistics are necessary to 
     implement the 2018 National Defense Strategy because it 
     enables the United States to project power and sustain the 
     fight against its strategic competitors in peacetime and 
     during war;
       (2) the joint logistics enterprise of the Armed Forces of 
     the United States faces high-end threats from strategic 
     competitors China, Russia, and Iran, all of whom have 
     invested in anti-access area denial capabilities and gray 
     zone tactics;
       (3) there are significant logistics shortfalls, as outlined 
     in the November 2018 final report of the Defense Science 
     Board (DSB) Task Force on Survivable Logistics, which, if 
     left unaddressed, would hamper the readiness and ability of 
     the Armed Forces of the United States to conduct operations 
     globally;
       (4) since the military departments have not shown a strong 
     commitment to funding logistics, the Secretary of Defense 
     should review the full list of recommendations listed in the 
     report described in paragraph (3) and address the chronic 
     underfunding of logistics relative to other priorities of the 
     Department of Defense.
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