[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 593. Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mr. Young) 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 D of title I, add the following:

     SEC. 147. F-35 PROGRAM PRODUCTION.

       (a) Procurement.--The Department of the Air Force shall 
     procure a minimum of 80 F-35A lightning aircraft per year 
     beginning in fiscal year 2021.
       (b) Limitation on Procurement.--Unless and until the 
     Department requests authorization and appropriation for a 
     minimum of 80 F-35As per year, the Department of Air Force 
     may not procure other ``new'' tactical fighter type aircraft 
     without approval from the congressional defense committees 
     for any authorization and appropriations bill enacted after 
     September 30, 2019.
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