[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 153 (Thursday, September 22, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5026]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5630. Mr. CARDIN 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 I, add the following:

     SEC. 144. PROHIBITION RELATING TO FLYING MISSION OF THE AIR 
                   NATIONAL GUARD; USE OF FUNDS FOR RUNWAYS OF THE 
                   AIR NATIONAL GUARD.

       (a) Prohibition.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of the Air Force may not 
     reduce below 200 the inventory of A-10 aircraft or the 
     inventory of F-22 aircraft.
       (2) Expiration of prohibition.--The prohibition under 
     paragraph (1) shall cease to have effect on the date on which 
     the Secretary of the Air Force submits to Congress a plan to 
     maintain the flying mission of the Air National Guard.
       (b) Air National Guard Runways.--The Secretary of the Air 
     Force shall use amounts available to the Secretary for 
     sustainment, restoration and modernization (SRM) to enhance 
     and improve runways of the Air National Guard in existence as 
     of the date of the enactment of this Act.
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