[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5246]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5762. Mr. KENNEDY 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 appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. ADDITIONAL AMOUNT FOR FABRICATION OF ONE ADDITIONAL 
                   MEDIUM UNMANNED SURFACE VEHICLE.

       (a) Additional Funding.--The amount authorized to be 
     appropriated for fiscal year 2023 by section 201 for 
     research, development, test, and evaluation is hereby 
     increased by $23,566,000, with the amount of the increase to 
     be available for Medium Unmanned Surface Vehicles (MUSVS) (PE 
     0605512N) to carry out the fabrication of one additional 
     medium unmanned surface vehicle.
       (b) Offset.--
       (1) In general.--The amount authorized to be appropriated 
     for fiscal year 2023 by section 301 for operation and 
     maintenance is hereby decreased by $23,566,000.
       (2) Availability.--Of the amounts available pursuant to the 
     authorization of appropriations in section 301 as specified 
     in the funding tables in section 4301--
       (A) the amount available for Operation and Maintenance, 
     Navy, Base Operating Support, is hereby reduced by 
     $20,000,000; and
       (B) the amount available for Operation and Maintenance, 
     Defense-wide, Office of the Secretary of Defense, is hereby 
     reduced by $3,566,000.
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