[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3595]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 594. Mr. MURPHY 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 F of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 866. AUTHORITY TO RESTRICT PROCUREMENT FROM COUNTRIES 
                   THAT QUALIFY FOR RECIPROCAL PROCUREMENT.

       The Secretary of Defense may restrict acquisitions pursuant 
     to subsection (c) of section 225.872-1 of the Defense Federal 
     Acquisition Regulation Supplement to domestic sources or 
     reject an otherwise acceptable offer from a qualifying 
     country listed in subsection (a) of such section (or any 
     successor regulation), for national defense reason, if 
     restricting the acquisition would have a substantial positive 
     effect on domestic employment. Before determining not to 
     apply the restrictions of chapter 83 of title 41, United 
     States Code (commonly referred to as the ``Buy American 
     Act'') pursuant to such section, the Secretary shall conduct 
     an assessment of the impact on domestic employment. The 
     Secretary shall provide an annual report on the findings of 
     all such assessments to the congressional defense committees 
     and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
     Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security 
     of the House of Representatives.
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