[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 194 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7875-S7876]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4347. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to 
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 
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 C of title VII, add the following:

     SEC. 744. ADDITIONAL AMOUNT FOR RAPID SCREENING UNDER 
                   DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST 
                   NOVEL ENTITIES PROGRAM.

       (a) Increase.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for 
     fiscal year 2022 by section 201 for research, development, 
     test, and evaluation is hereby increased by $4,500,000, with 
     the amount of the increase to be available for Advanced 
     Component Development & Prototypes, Research, Development, 
     Test, and Evaluation, Defense-Wide, for the Chemical and 
     Biological Defense Program-DEM/VAL, line 82 of the table in 
     section 4201, for the Development of Medical Countermeasures 
     Against Novel Entities program of the Defense Threat 
     Reduction Agency, to allow for the rapid screening of all 
     compounds approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and 
     other human-safe compound libraries, to identify optimal drug 
     candidates for repurposing as medical countermeasures for 
     coronavirus disease 2019 (commonly known as ``COVID-19'') and 
     other novel and emerging biological threats.

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       (b) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for 
     fiscal year 2022 by section 301 for operation and maintenance 
     is hereby decreased by $4,500,000, with the amount of the 
     reduction to be derived from Admin and Servicewide 
     Activities, Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, for 
     Defense Media Activity, line 370 of the table in section 
     4301.
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