[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 19, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S2789]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1523. Mr. INHOFE (for himself, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Graham, Mr. Cotton, 
Ms. Ernst, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Hagerty, Mr. Cramer, Mrs. 
Fischer, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Sullivan, and Mr. Hawley) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1502 
proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to establish a new 
Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science 
Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require 
a strategy and report on economic security, science, research, 
innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical 
supply chain resiliency program, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. POINT OF ORDER TO ENSURE UNITED STATES ADEQUATELY 
                   FUNDS NATIONAL DEFENSE.

       (a) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:
       (1) Relative to the February 2021 Congressional Budget 
     Office spending baseline, President Joseph R. Biden has 
     proposed more than $6,000,000,000,000 in nondefense spending 
     outside the annual appropriations process.
       (2) President Biden's fiscal year 2022 budget request 
     proposes to increase spending in the nondefense discretionary 
     category by almost 20 percent while cutting the United States 
     defense budget in real terms.
       (3) This Act contains more than $100,000,000,000 of 
     authorizations of appropriations without a single additional 
     dollar authorized to be appropriated for the Department of 
     Defense.
       (4) The United States Armed Forces has lost 
     $400,000,000,000 relative to inflation since 2011.
       (5) The People's Liberation Army has experienced real 
     budget growth for more than two decades, including 6.8 
     percent growth in 2021.
       (6) A July 22, 2019, statement by Speaker of the House of 
     Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer stated 
     that ``Democrats have always insisted on parity in increases 
     between defense and non-defense''.
       (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate 
     that Congress should adequately fund national defense with a 
     whole-of-government investment plan for strategic competition 
     with the People's Republic of China, including by adhering to 
     the principle of parity between increases for defense and 
     nondefense spending, which would result in significant real 
     growth for the defense budget.
       (c) Point of Order for Fiscal Year 2022.--It shall not be 
     in order in the Senate to consider--
       (1) a concurrent resolution on the budget, or an amendment 
     to, conference report on, amendment between the Houses in 
     relation to, or a motion on a concurrent resolution on the 
     budget, that determines and declares as the appropriate level 
     of new discretionary budget authority for major functional 
     category 050 (National Defense) for fiscal year 2022 an 
     amount that is less than the total amount of the appropriate 
     level of new discretionary budget authority determined and 
     declared for all major functional categories other than major 
     functional category 050 for fiscal year 2022;
       (2) a bill or joint resolution reported pursuant to section 
     310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 641), 
     or an amendment to, conference report on, amendment between 
     the Houses in relation to, or motion on such a bill or joint 
     resolution, that appropriates amounts for 1 or more major 
     functional categories other than major functional category 
     050 for fiscal year 2022 and does not appropriate amounts for 
     major functional category 050 for fiscal year 2022 in an 
     amount that is not less than the amount appropriated under 
     that measure for all major functional categories other than 
     major functional category 050 for fiscal year 2022; or
       (3) a bill or joint resolution making appropriations for 
     fiscal year 2022, or an amendment to, conference report on, 
     amendment between the Houses in relation to, or motion on 
     such a bill or joint resolution, that would cause the total 
     amount of appropriations for the revised nonsecurity category 
     for fiscal year 2022 to exceed the total amount of 
     appropriations for the revised security category for fiscal 
     year 2022.
       (d) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (c) may be waived or 
     suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
     fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative 
     vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly 
     chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of 
     the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under 
     subsection (a).
       (e) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``revised 
     nonsecurity category'' and ``revised security category'' have 
     the meanings given those terms in section 250(c)(4) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 
     U.S.C. 900(c)(4)).
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