[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 198 (Monday, November 15, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S8148]
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  SA 4622. Mr. YOUNG 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 A of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1004. BRIEFING ASSESSING THE FEASIBILITY OF DELAYING 
                   DELIVERY OF BUDGET DETAILS FOR A CERTAIN SUBSET 
                   OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE BUDGET.

       (a) In General.--Not later than June 1, 2022, the Deputy 
     Secretary of Defense shall deliver a briefing to the 
     congressional defense committees regarding the feasibility of 
     establishing a $50,000,000 to $150,000,000 line item in the 
     Department of Defense budget for which programmatic and 
     budgetary details would be delivered one to five months after 
     the delivery of the president's annual budget to Congress.
       (b) Elements.--The briefing required under subsection (a) 
     should include--
       (1) an assessment of potential changes needed to the 
     Program Objective Memorandum (POM) process to implement the 
     approach described in such subsection;
       (2) recommended changes or improvements to the POM process 
     needed to enable additional congressional oversight of such 
     an approach; and
       (3) a survey of projects that might have been included in 
     the President's budget earlier than they otherwise were as a 
     result of such an approach.
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