[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 106 (Monday, June 24, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4464]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 846. Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. Portman) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 764 proposed by Mr. 
Inhofe 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 II, add the following:

     SEC. ___. USE OF TESTING FACILITIES TO RESEARCH AND DEVELOP 
                   HYPERSONIC TECHNOLOGY.

       Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall provide a briefing 
     to the congressional defense committees on the costs and 
     benefits of the use and potential refurbishment of existing 
     operating and mothballed Federal research and testing 
     facilities to support hypersonics activities of the 
     Department of Defense.
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