[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 199 (Tuesday, November 16, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S8276]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4686. Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mr. King) 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. STUDY ON SUPPLY CHAINS CRITICAL TO NATIONAL 
                   SECURITY.

       Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall, in 
     coordination with the Director of the Central Intelligence 
     Agency and the heads of such elements of the intelligence 
     community as the Director of National Intelligence considers 
     appropriate--
       (1) complete a study--
       (A) to identify--
       (i) supply chains that are critical to the national 
     security, economic security, or public health or safety of 
     the United States; and
       (ii) important vulnerabilities in such supply chains; and
       (B) to develop recommendations for legislative or 
     administrative action to secure the supply chains identified 
     under subparagraph (A)(i); and
       (2) submit to the congressional intelligence committees (as 
     that term is defined in section 3 of the National Security 
     Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)), the Committee on Armed 
     Services of the Senate, and the Committee on Armed Services 
     of the House of Representatives the findings of the directors 
     with respect to the study conducted under paragraph (1).
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