[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 119 (Monday, June 29, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3963]
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SA 2310. Mrs. LOEFFLER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 2301 proposed by Mr. Inhofe 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:
On page 808, strike lines 5 through 22 and insert the
following:
(a) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) the United States Government has a responsibility to
undertake all reasonable measures to ensure that members of
the Armed Forces never confront a more technologically
advanced foe;
(2) pursuant to section 3 of the United States-Israel
Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 (22 U.S.C. 8602),
it is the policy of the United States to affirm the
unwavering commitment of the United States to the security of
Israel as a Jewish state, support the right of Israel to
self-defense and encourage further development of advanced
technology programs between the United States and Israel;
(3) the United States and Israel have several cooperative
technology programs to develop and field capabilities in
missile defense, countertunneling, and counterunmanned aerial
systems; and
(4) building on positive ongoing efforts, the United States
and Israel should further institutionalize and strengthen
their defense innovation partnership by establishing a United
States-Israel Operations-Technology Working Group to identify
and expeditiously field capabilities that the military forces
of both countries need to deter and defeat respective
adversaries.
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