[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3514]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 501. Mr. CRUZ 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 B of title XIV, add the following:

     SEC. 1412. DEVELOPMENT OF RARE EARTH MINERALS IN THE UNITED 
                   STATES.

       (a) Grants.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense may award grants 
     for the development of rare earth mining activities in the 
     United States.
       (2) Authorization of appropriations.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums as may be 
     necessary to award grants under paragraph (1).
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the President, acting through the Defense Logistics Agency, 
     should use the full authority provided under section 15 of 
     the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 
     U.S.C. 98h-6) to ensure that the United States has sufficient 
     stockpile resources of rare earth minerals as required for 
     the national defense.
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