[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3550]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2128. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2021 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 A of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1003. UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (COMPTROLLER) REPORTS 
                   ON IMPROVING THE BUDGET JUSTIFICATION AND 
                   RELATED MATERIALS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       (a) Reports Required.--Not later than April 1 of each of 
     2021 through 2025, the Under Secretary of Defense 
     (Comptroller) shall submit to the congressional defense 
     committees a report on improving the following:
       (1) Modernization of covered materials, including the 
     following:
       (A) Updating the format of such materials in order to 
     account for significant improvements in document management 
     and data visualization.
       (B) Expanding the scope and quality of data included in 
     such materials.
       (2) Streamlining of the production of covered materials 
     within the Department of Defense.
       (3) Transmission of covered materials to Congress.
       (4) Availability of adequate resources and capabilities to 
     permit the Department to integrate changes to covered 
     materials together with its submittal of current covered 
     materials.
       (5) Promotion of the flow between the Department and the 
     congressional defense committees of other information 
     required by Congress for its oversight of budgeting for the 
     Department and the future-years defense programs.
       (b) Covered Materials Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``covered materials'' means the following:
       (1) Materials submitted in support of the budget of the 
     President for a fiscal year under section 1105(a) of title 
     31, United States Code.
       (2) Materials submitted in connection with the future-years 
     defense program for a fiscal year under section 221 of title 
     10, United States Code.
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