[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 19, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2806-S2807]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1561. Ms. COLLINS (for herself and Mr. Wicker) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by her 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:

        In section 3224(10), strike subparagraphs (C) through (F) 
     and insert the following:
       (C) building and maintaining a United States naval fleet of 
     not fewer than 355 battle force ships--
       (i) to rival the People's Liberation Army Navy's larger 
     fleet; and
       (ii) to ensure the United States Navy can continue to 
     maintain freedom of navigation and defend United States 
     security and economic interests in the Indo-Pacific region;

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       (D) adopting a more dispersed force posture throughout the 
     region, particularly the Western Pacific, and pursuing 
     maximum access for United States mobile and relocatable 
     launchers for long-range cruise, ballistic, and hypersonic 
     weapons throughout the Indo-Pacific region;
       (E) fielding long-range, precision-strike networks to 
     United States and allied forces, including ground-launched 
     cruise missiles, undersea and naval capabilities, and 
     integrated air and missile defense in the First Island Chain 
     and the Second Island Chain, in order to deter and prevent 
     PRC coercion and aggression, and to maximize the United 
     States ability to operate;
       (F) strengthening extended deterrence to ensure that 
     escalation against key United States interests would be 
     costly, risky, and self-defeating; and
       (G) collaborating with allies and partners to accelerate 
     their roles in more equitably sharing the burdens of mutual 
     defense, including through the acquisition and fielding of 
     advanced capabilities and training that will better enable 
     them to repel PRC aggression or coercion; and
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