[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 21, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S4925]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5532. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 D of title XII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 1254. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON INCREASING PORT AND AIRFIELD 
                   CAPACITY OF COUNTRIES IN INDO-PACIFIC REGION.

       It is the sense of Congress that, as the People's Republic 
     of China continues to grow in influence through 
     infrastructure (specifically infrastructure that can easily 
     be shifted from economic to military uses), the United States 
     International Development Finance Corporation should 
     prioritize providing alternative financing opportunities that 
     increase port and air field capacity of countries throughout 
     the Indo-Pacific region that--
       (1) are targets of the predatory infrastructure development 
     scheme of the People's Republic of China; and
       (2) are eligible for support provided by the Corporation 
     under title II of the Better Utilization of Investments 
     Leading to Development Act of 2018 (22 U.S.C. 9621 et seq.).
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