[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 92 (Wednesday, May 26, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3516]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 2042. Ms. MURKOWSKI 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:
On page 966, beginning on line 13, strike ``and'' and all
that follows through line 15 and insert the following:
(F) examining the possibility of reconvening the Arctic
Chiefs of Defense Forum;
(G) establishing a series of deep-water ports in the United
States Arctic and North Pacific in order to respond to and
monitor activities such as illegal fishing, increased
shipping traffic, support search and rescue, United States
commerce, and scientific research; and
(H) reinstituting the Arctic Executive Steering Committee
(AESC) as a permanent office in the Executive Office of the
President and naming a chair of the Committee within 30 days
of the date of the enactment of this Act.
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