[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5489-S5490]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6002. Mr. LEE 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 C of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1026. CONSTRUCTION OF NAVAL VESSELS IN SHIPYARDS IN 
                   NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION COUNTRIES.

       Section 8679 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``subsection (b)'' and 
     inserting ``subsections (b) and (c)'';

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       (2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
       (3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new 
     subsection (c):
       ``(c) Construction of Naval Vessels in Shipyards in NATO 
     Countries.--The Secretary of the Navy may construct a naval 
     vessel in a foreign shipyard if--
       ``(1) the shipyard is located within the boundaries of a 
     member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; and
       ``(2) the cost of construction of such vessel in such 
     shipyard will be less than the cost of construction of such 
     vessel in a domestic shipyard.''.
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