[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5574]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6036. Mr. WICKER 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 B of title IX, add the following:

     SEC. 916. CLARIFICATION OF PEACETIME FUNCTIONS OF THE NAVY.

       Section 8062(a) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in the second sentence, by striking ``primarily'' and 
     inserting ``for the peacetime promotion of the national 
     security interests and prosperity of the United States and''; 
     and
       (2) in the third sentence, by striking ``for the effective 
     prosecution of war'' and inserting ``for the duties described 
     in the preceding sentence''.
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