[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 5632. 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 F of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 389. PROHIBITION ON ELIMINATION OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL 
                   INCIDENT RESPONSE FORCE OF MARINE CORPS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense may not eliminate 
     the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force of the Marine 
     Corps or the funding for such force.
       (b) Report on Funding and Maintenance of Program.--Not 
     later than April 25, 2023, the Secretary of Defense, in 
     coordination with the Commandant of the Marine Corps, shall 
     submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 
     the House of Representatives a report on how the Department 
     of Defense will fund and maintain the Chemical Biological 
     Incident Response Force of the Marine Corps.
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